Will Chris Rock Be The Host Of Next Year's Oscars?
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bird Show |
| 0:07.0 | Could Chris Rock be the host of next year's Oscars? |
| 0:11.4 | An executive at ABC has already said he's open to the idea. |
| 0:15.4 | He wants to make next year's show, quote, even better, ratings were up by 58% this year. |
| 0:22.0 | There were 16.6 million viewers compared to last year's 9.8 million viewers, and I'm |
| 0:26.4 | wondering if they did the same thing I did. |
| 0:29.2 | I was not watching, but I was on social media. |
| 0:32.5 | And I saw everybody talking about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, and I'm like, no way. |
| 0:36.9 | So I turned it on. |
| 0:37.9 | Yeah, last half. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, that was the first, but last half we watched. |
| 0:45.0 | So they're thinking next year's ceremony, which is taking place Sunday, March 12th, potentially |
| 0:49.5 | could be Chris Rock, and of course Will Smith is banned from attending the Oscars for the |
| 0:53.6 | next 10 years. |
| 0:54.6 | So he would at least be safe on stage, because Will Smith would not be in presence. |
| 0:58.8 | Is he though? |
| 0:59.8 | Is he? |
| 1:00.8 | Because someone might still want to slap him. |
| 1:01.8 | I feel like they're going to have to put him in one of those glass cases the way they do |
| 1:04.8 | it, like the drummer at a blues bar. |
| 1:06.6 | Is there a man who's going to be throwing glass bottles at him? |
| 1:09.4 | If the Academy Awards had any sense of humor at all, which they don't, they would put everybody |
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