Maya RudolphandAmy Poehlerare perpetually fan favorites.
The duo announced two awards at theGolden Globes2019, and their chemistry was so strong — Poehler, 47,proposedto Rudolph, 46, after all! — that Twitter immediately wanted them to take over the biggest hosting job of the year at theAcademy Awardsin February.
To date, the Academy has yet to name a new host.
Paul Drinkwater/NBC
Can’t get enough of the Globes? Check outour full Golden Globes coveragefor the latest news, fashion and more.
“Dear Oscars, Hire Maya Rudolph as host Sincerely, World,” wrote one user with the clapping emoji interspersed throughout.
“Have they found a host forthe Oscarsyet? Because me thinks Amy and Maya would be perfect to do it,” wrote another.
“Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph should hostthe Oscars,” added a third.
“Can Maya and Amy please hostthe Oscars?! Lol #GoldenGIobes,” wrote a fourth.
“It’s also pretty freakin clear who should host the 2019 Oscars BTW #GoldenGIobes,” quipped another.
Maya Rudolph.
Earlier this week,Ellen DeGenerestooka stand in supportof Hart.
“I called [The Academy], I said, ‘Kevin’s on, I have no idea if he wants to come back and host, but what are your thoughts?’ And they were like, ‘Oh my God, we want him to host. We feel like that maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong or maybe we said the wrong thing but we want him to host. Whatever we can do we would be thrilled. And he should hostthe Oscars,’” theEllen DeGeneresShowhost, 60, told Hart on an episode of her show aired Friday.
Amy Poehler.
“There are so many haters out there, whatever is going on the internet don’t pay attention to them, that’s a small group of people being very, very loud. We’re a huge group of people who love you and want to see you hostthe Oscars,” she said.
Kevin Hart and Ellen DeGenres.Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.
“As a gay person, I am sensitive to all of that. You’ve already expressed that it’s not being educated on the subject, not realizing how dangerous those words are, not realizing how many kids are killed for being gay or beaten up every day. You have grown, you have apologized, you are apologizing again right now. You’re done it.”
“Don’t let those people win — hostthe Oscars.”
Hart once again reiterated he was sorry but defended his initial reaction — which included saying he was done apologizing — telling DeGeneres he behaved the way he did as he was under attack.
“This wasn’t an accident. This wasn’t a coincidence. It wasn’t a coincidence that the day after I received the job, tweets somehow manifested from 2008,” he told the talk show host.
“To go back through 40,000 tweets to get back to 2008 that’s an attack, that’s a malicious attack on my character, that’s an attack to end me, that’s not an attack to just stopthe Oscars.”
He added: “Someone has to take a stand against the quote-unquote trolls.”
source: people.com
