'And awayyyyyyyyy we go'! Upcoming Oscars host Kevin Hart under fire for 'offensive homophobic' tweets

Sarah D | 2:39 PM on December 06, 2018

In case you missed it, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently confirmed that comedian Kevin Hart will be hosting the 2019 Oscars ceremony. And that means one thing: it’s time to comb through his old tweets in search of dirty laundry.

Intrepid journos have apparently decided that the target of their fishing expedition is Hart’s old tweets about homosexuality:

do u think he's gonna make gay jokes when he hosts the oscars or nah https://t.co/apRUOlFIed

— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 6, 2018

Kevin Hart has now deleted this tweet after he was named as Oscars host pic.twitter.com/fxra6gx44E

— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 6, 2018

Plenty of other still there including this old gem https://t.co/rq53efZCrD

— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 6, 2018

As Adam flagged last night, this…was not a one-time thing. https://t.co/oX9yReKkiC

— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 6, 2018

After seeing this @benfraserlee tweet, I did a search for every time Kevin Hart tweeted "fag," "homo," or "gay." It was…a lot. And he seems to have basically stopped tweeting those words after 2011 — i.e. the year his first stand-up movie became a hit. https://t.co/P8nTOilFgx pic.twitter.com/6uzPhnvt4F

— Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) December 5, 2018

Kevin Hart's offensive homophobic comments have resurfaced. Do they warrant firing him? Maybe. https://t.co/F0IqhPwidb pic.twitter.com/QKtuCOEIsY

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 6, 2018