Kevin Hart just gave us the most dramatic announcement & withdrawal we've seen in a while, all in 24 hours time. Before most people could even congratulate the comedian on nabbing the 2019 Oscars hosting gig, he's already gone over a couple clapback cliffs and pulled out. Here's why....
About a day ago, Kevin Hart's dream to host the Oscars had finally come true.
And it lasted all of 36 hours.
Folks didn't forget that back in 2009 (and beyond), he said some pretty messed up things that can certainly be seen as homophobia and insulting toward the LGBT community. And the tweets and comments on the Academy's social media pages were coming in HOT.
I almost thought it was silly that Kevin hart stepped down but then I saw these homophobic ass tweets pic.twitter.com/3IaG27JJss
— Jaime (@JaimeEQUALITY) December 7, 2018
@benfraserlee GIF’d it, I just took the screenshots.
I count 49 of them. #KevinHartpic.twitter.com/j9EUsjmvUy
— Efren (@EfrenBlackjack) December 7, 2018
Lots of folks defended him as well with sentiments like these, saying "political correctness" is killing this country:
Sorry but @KevinHart4real having to step down over old comedic tweets from 10 years ago is fucking insane! Yeah I didn’t find the jokes funny, but humour is subjective. Just because you’re offended doesn’t make you right! Comedy is being killed because of offended delicate people
— Daz Black (@daz_black) December 7, 2018
The Kevin Hart situation is so stupid. Apparently you are allowed to make jokes about all groups of people except gay people lol. That doesn’t sound like equality to me.
— Anthony (@OMGItsBirdman) December 7, 2018
Then came a series of positive videos & posts from Kevin to combat the social media lashing he was getting:
Then, he'd had enough. Apparently the Academy caught wind of all the hoopla going on and asked him to just apologize. He said Nah. And withdrew as he host late Thursday evening.
Similar to his "explanation" after that cheating scandal he got caught red handed in thanks to a mirror and a hidden camera, he seemed to blame everybody else. He called out "trolls" for not dropping the subject and just letting him live.
Almost immediately after saying he withdrew from the gig because he didn't want to "apologize again" at the request of the Academy, he went and did just that on Twitter.
Not sure what the purpose of all the theatrics were if you were just going to say exactly what you said you didn't want to say.
He could have just apologized/re-explained again (despite folks saying they don't ever recall him doing so the first time, at least not fully), and then carried he hell on with hosting. But when pride and ego get in the way after a social media lashing, you get someone quitting the job of a lifetime.
Well, at least he has the huge crowd in Melbourne he performed for Thursday night to cushion the fall. And he's still on his multi-million dollar Irresponsible Tour.
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