Jimmy Kimmel Reveals How Much Money the Oscars Paid Him for Hosting, Tells Wanda Sykes She’s ‘Getting Robbed’
usmagazine.comThey get what they pay for? Jimmy Kimmel and Wanda Sykes are comparing notes — and they both agree that the Oscars don’t offer a generous salary to hosts.Sykes, 58, is set to MC the 2022 Academy Awards alongside Regina Hall and Amy Schumer on Sunday, March 27, and Kimmel, 54, wasn’t afraid to discuss how little he was paid for hosting by himself in 2017 and 2018.
The Upshaws star, however, said she didn’t realize that taking the hosting position would be so low-paid.“I was like, ‘Uh, I guess, I gotta say yeah, right?’ You gotta say yes,” Sykes said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
on Monday, March 21. “I was real excited about that, but then I realized, out of all the jobs that I have, this one is actually gonna cost me money.”The late-night personality confirmed that the gig isn’t known for paying well. “It is going to cost you money.
Will you say how much you get paid for this?” Kimmel asked.“I don’t even know it’s, like, scale probably,” Sykes claimed. The term applies to those in the union, SAG-AFTRA.
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