{"id":268159,"date":"2019-02-24T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1017855"},"modified":"2019-02-24T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T01:16:11","slug":"tina-fey-amy-poehler-and-maya-rudolph-reunite-at-the-oscars-and-let-them-just-host-it-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/tina-fey-amy-poehler-and-maya-rudolph-reunite-at-the-oscars-and-let-them-just-host-it-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph Reunite at the Oscars and Let Them Just Host It Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019124\/rs_1024x759-190224171305-1024-2maya-rudolph-tina-fey-amy-poehler-oscars-2019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, 2019 Oscars, 2019 Academy Awards, Show\" alt=\"Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, 2019 Oscars, 2019 Academy Awards, Show\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Rob Latour\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"52.393021472393\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"48.144938650307\">\n<p>Hello, Academy? We need to talk.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kevin_hart\">Kevin Hart<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994207\/kevin-hart-steps-down-as-2019-oscars-host\" target=\"_blank\">pulled out of hosting<\/a> the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2019_oscars\">2019 Oscars<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after being criticized over past homophobic comments? And then you guys went with the whole, &#8220;No host this year!&#8221; thing, and we were all like,\u00a0uh, OK, sure, guess that could work, lil&#8217; odd though.<\/p>\n<p>And then Oscars Sunday came and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tina_fey\">Tina Fey<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/amy_poehler\">Amy Poehler<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/maya_rudolph\">Maya Rudolph<\/a><\/strong> stepped out onstage.\u00a0<em>What?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0our hearts leaped\u00a0out of our chests. And then Tina said, &#8220;We are not your hosts. But we&#8217;re going to stand here a little too long so that the people who get <em>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0tomorrow will think that we hosted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s funny stuff. And it\u00a0<em>hurts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The three would go on to delight us with more zingers, such as, &#8220;There won&#8217;t be a popular movie category, and Mexico is not paying for the wall,&#8221; before they presented the award for best supporting actress.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0<em>tease<\/em> us, you\u00a0<em>tease<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So Academy, let&#8217;s get this straight: Tina, Amy and Maya, who last reunited onstage for a 2015\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em>\u00a0Christmas episode, had\u00a0<em>no other plans<\/em> this Sunday, and were\u00a0<em>perfectly willing<\/em> to\u00a0grace us with their presence to present an award and make the\u00a0Oscars <em>even better<\/em>, just for a few minutes,\u00a0and no one thought to ask, &#8220;Hey, ladies, we don&#8217;t have a host&#8230;HERE&#8217;S A GREAT IDEA! How about you guys just HOST THE WHOLE SHOW?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"67.646866840731\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"29.745430809399\">\n<p>Gonna leave this right here, and actually, gonna assume that you\u00a0<em>did<\/em> ask them, and they made up some excuse and declined, because they obviously hate us&#8230;right?<\/p>\n<p>Got it. Not gonna lie, that stings.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe next year, extend the invitation again? You see, when Tina and Amy get onstage together, it&#8217;s comedy gold. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/613403\/ranking-tina-fey-and-amy-poehler-s-best-opening-monologue-jokes-at-the-2015-golden-globes\" target=\"_blank\">Remember the 2015 Golden Globes<\/a>? Come on, let&#8217;s one-up that! Because when\u00a0Maya joins the two, the trio, in the words of\u00a0<strong>Marie Kondo<\/strong>, spark more joy than you could ever imagine. They are\u00a0<em>made<\/em> for hosting the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>We love the Oscars. But you know what would make the 2020 Oscars extra great? If you got Tina, Amy and Maya to co-host\u00a0the show.<\/p>\n<p>Do whatever you need to do to make this happen&#8230;we have faith in you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to thank the Academy.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">After tonight&#8217;s Oscars ceremony on ABC, watch E!&#8217;s <em>After Party<\/em> special at 11 p.m. And don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> on Monday at 7 p.m. for a recap of Hollywood&#8217;s biggest night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1017855\/tina-fey-amy-poehler-and-maya-rudolph-reunite-at-the-oscars-and-let-them-just-host-it-already?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Latour\/REX\/Shutterstock Hello, Academy? We need to talk. Remember when Kevin Hart\u00a0pulled out of hosting the\u00a02019 Oscars\u00a0after being criticized over past homophobic comments? And then you guys went with the whole, &#8220;No host this year!&#8221; thing, and we were all like,\u00a0uh, OK, sure, guess that could work, lil&#8217; odd though. And then Oscars Sunday came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 12:14:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}