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Jimmy Kimmel has reportedly turned down an offer to host the 2025 Academy Awards. According to a new report from Puck, Kimmel will not be back for what would have been his fifth time emceeing the biggest night in Hollywood. In these turbulent times, we'll take any good news we can get. 

But with the good also comes the bad: comedian John Mulaney turned down an offer to host the Oscars in 2025 as well. This is a shame because Mulaney hosted the Governors Awards and also crushed it as a presenter this year at the Oscars. You didn't even need to have seen Field of Dreams to have gotten at least a chuckle out of Mulaney's bit. 

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018, and then 2023 and 2024, which had some of the most dramatic Oscars moments in recent memory. From Will Smith slapping Chris Rock across the face, to La La Land mistakenly being announced as the winner of Best Picture over Moonlight, to bad jokes stereotyping Irish people, Kimmel's time as Oscars host was not without its bumps in the road and FCC complaints. With so many eyebrow-raising incidents at the Oscars these last few years, it felt increasingly stale to have to see Kimmel year in and year out try to make light of the controversies.  

With the Oscars host gig still up for grabs, let's all hope that the Academy offers it to some of the young blood in Tinseltown. It's time to light up the Bat-Signal for Quinta Brunson, Ayo Edibiri, and Rachel Sennott. They may be our only hope that the Oscars will actually be funny again.