No, really. The show is a whopping 3.5 hours long.
"I'm gonna try and do it all a bit quicker, 'cause, you know, it doesn't need to be longer, does it?" he told E! News exclusively.
"I think what we learned last year, is what I felt like perhaps we already knew but it sort of solidified it for us, is that the most important thing as a host of this show is to play the show, is to play this show," he said. "You've got to leave your ego at the door really and you just can't make it all about you. You've just got to...celebrate these great artists. It's not about a host, it's not about who's hosting the Grammys, it's who's performing."
"It's certainly colder," he joked about New York. There's no denying it is a colder experience."
"I think it's gonna be great. I've never been in Madison Square Garden before. I've never set foot in there. I went in yesterday. You can't help but be blown away by the history of that building," he told E! News. "To bring the Grammys to New York for the first time in 15 years, to be lucky enough to host it...if I could tell my 12-year-old self that this would be his life, his head would explode."
Tune in to E!'s Grammys Countdown show starting at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT Sunday, Jan. 28, followed by our two-hour Live From the Red Carpet: 2018 Grammy Awards special at 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT. After the Grammys telecast on CBS, watch the E! After Party at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT. For complete Grammy Awards coverage, watch E! News Monday, Jan. 29, at 7 and 11 p.m.
