The host was seen in a tuxedo as he gets lost in Barbieland where he is asked if he is 'middle aged Ken.' He is then shown by Weird Barbie - played by Kate McKinnon - how to get to Oscarland
The biggest night in movies is getting near: the 96th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 10, 2024.The 56-year-old host was seen in a tuxedo as he gets lost in Barbieland where he is asked if he is 'middle aged Ken' which puts him off.
He is then shown by Weird Barbie - played by SNL veteran Kate McKinnon - how to get to Oscarland via a fake but colorful carKimmel - who has for years been fake feuding with Matt - asks who that 'disgusting' person is.Once at the Oscars, America Ferrera pops up out of the back of the car and gives her famous it's-hard-to-be-a-woman speech, but instead the theme is it's-hard-to-be-an-Oscar-host.
The TV host, who has also hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2020, rose viewership 'to nearly 19 million' from 16.6 million the year before, when Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall and Amy Schumer hosted, according to the New York Times. Ken then says he has no chance of winning so he doesn't care, and he knows Barbie director Greta Gerwig will win. He then has to be told via whisper from America that she was not even nominated. Everyone lets out a big scream.
Kimmel has been present on stage during some of the show's most dramatic incidents, including 'envelope-gate' in 2017, when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong results card.