For the second consecutive year, the Academy Awards won’t have a host when the function happens one month from now. If the show’s makers ever choose to employ another entertainer for the activity, later on, previous service emcee David Letterman has a disputable thought: “Well, I imagined that Kevin Hart was a virtuoso decision,” Letterman told the Hollywood Reporter in another meeting.

Letterman said that when Hart previously showed up on Late Show, he declined a pre-meet, guaranteeing, “Don’t stress, I can make anything amusing.” After his gig was reported on December 4, 2018, a progression of Hart’s old homophobic tweets reemerged on the web. Squeezed to apologize for the cold-hearted material, Hart declined. “I decided to pass. I passed on the statement of regret. The motivation behind why I passed is because I’ve tended to this multiple times,” Hart stated, in a video presented on Instagram.

Kevin Hart to host the Oscars really wanted David Letterman. See all the details

Kevin Hart to host the Oscars really wanted David Letterman. See all the details

A brief timeframe later, Hart declared that he was venturing down as host—at last saying ‘sorry’ all the while. “I would prefer not to be an interruption on a night that ought to be commended by such huge numbers of stunningly skilled artists. In the weeks that followed, Hart showed up on Ellen, where have Ellen DeGeneres (a previous Oscar emcee herself) requested that he should re-examine his choice to step back. A report later affirmed that Hart and the Academy could have been agreeable to a potential gathering before a previous year’s Academy Awards, yet Hart at last ruled against facilitating the show.

Anyway, it’s now back to Letterman. The Hollywood Reporter met the 72-year-old to talk about the 25th commemoration of his scandalous appearance as Oscar has, which Letterman called “the single greatest expert humiliation of my life.” That night, during his monolog, Letterman associated Uma Thurman with Oprah Winfrey; hence, “Uma-Oprah” was born.