So, will Jon Stewart be asked to host next year?

[Tab]

[Harper_is_Bush]

1. Do they get hosts to return?? n/t

[Tab]

3. If they like them

Billy Crystal (that I personally didn't like that much) hosted many times, as did many others. Whoopie did a few.

Letterman just was out of his element and didn't get asked back, iirc.

FYI, if you vote, you should post, if only a :kick: , as the act of voting in and of itself doesn't kick the thread.

But yeah, if they like you, you can keep going for many shows.

[Nicole]

24. O.K.

:kick:

[BrotherBuzz]

Bob Hope hosted almost twenty times!

Academy Awards Hosts

Listed below are the host(s) of each year's ceremony as well as the date. Some years have other interesting notes.


2004:Chris Rock (Sunday, February 27, 2005)
2003:Billy Crystal (Sunday, February 29, 2004)
2002:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 23, 2003)
2001:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 24, 2002)
2000:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 25, 2001)
1999:Billy Crystal (Sunday, March 26, 2000)
1998:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 21, 1999)
1997:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 23, 1998)
1996:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 24, 1997)
1995:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 25, 1996)
1994:David Letterman (Monday, March 27, 1995)
1993:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 21, 1994)
1992:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 29, 1993)
1991:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 30, 1992)
1990:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 25, 1991)
1989:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 26, 1990)
1988:No Official Host (Wednesday, April 29, 1989)
1987:Chevy Chase (Monday, April 11, 1988)
1986:Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan (Monday, March 31, 1987)
1985:Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams (Monday, March 24, 1986)
1984:Jack Lemmon (Monday, March 25, 1985)
1983:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1984)
1982:Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau (Monday, April 11, 1983)
1981:Johnny Carson (Monday, March 29, 1982)
1980:Johnny Carson (Tuesday, March 31, 1981)1
1979:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 14, 1980)
1978:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1979)
1977:Bob Hope (Monday, April 3, 1978)
1976:Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor (Monday, March 28, 1977)
1975:Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw (Monday, March 29, 1976)
1974:Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra (Tuesday, April 8, 1975)
1973:John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, and Diana Ross (Tuesday, April 2, 1974)
1972:Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson (Tuesday, March 27, 1973)
1971:Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 10, 1972)
1970:No Official Host (Thursday, April 15, 1971)
1969:No Official Host (Tuesday, April 7, 1970)
1968:No Official Host (Monday, April 14, 1969)
1967:Bob Hope (Wednesday, April 10, 1968)2
1966:Bob Hope (Monday, April 10, 1967)
1965:Bob Hope (Monday, April 18, 1966)3
1964:Bob Hope (Monday, April 13, 1964)
1963:Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 13, 1964)
1962:Frank Sinatra (Monday, April 8, 1963)
1961:Bob Hope (Monday, April 9, 1962)
1960:Bob Hope (Monday, April 17, 1961)
1959:Bob Hope (Monday, April 4, 1960)
1958:Bob Hope, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, David Niven, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Jerry Lewis (Monday, April 6, 1959)
1957:Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Rosalind Russell (Wednesday, March 26, 1958)
1956:Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm
1955:Jerry Lewis, Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Wednesday, March 21, 1956)
1954:Bob Hope and Thelma Ritter (Wednesday, March 30, 1955)
1953:Donald O'Connor and Frederic March (Thursday, March 25, 1954)
1952:Bob Hope and Conrad Nagel (Thursday, March 19, 1953)4
1951:Danny Kaye (Thursday, March 20, 1952)
1950:Fred Astaire (Thursday, March 29, 1951)
1949:Paul Douglas (Thursday, March 23, 1950)
1948:Robert Montgomery (Thursday, March 24, 1949)
1947:No Official Host (Saturday, March 20, 1948)
1946:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 13, 1947)
1945:Bob Hope and James Stewart (Thursday, March 7, 1946)
1944:Bob Hope and John Cromwell (Thursday, March 15, 1945)5
1943:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 2, 1944)
1942:Bob Hope (Thursday, March 4, 1943)
1941:No Official Host (Thursday, February 26, 1942)
1940:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 27, 1941)6
1939:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 39, 1940)
1938:No Official Host (Thursday, February 23, 1939)
1937:Bob Burns (Thursday, March 10, 1938)7
1936:George Jessel (Thursday, March 4, 1937)
1935:Frank Capra (Thursday, March 5, 1936)
1934:Irwin S. Cobb (Wednesday, February 27, 1935)
1932/33:Will Rogers (Friday, March 16, 1934)
1931/32:Lionel Barrymore (Friday, November 18, 1932)
1930/31:Lawrence Grant (Tuesday, November 10, 1931)
1929/30:Conrad Nagel (Wednesday, November 5, 1930)
1928/29:William C. demille (Thursday, April 3, 1930)
1927/28:Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille (Thursday, May 16, 1929)

[JI7]

2. no, he will get the same response Letterman and Chris Rock got

that's what i'm guessing.

personally i never thought Letterman and Rock were bad as some claimed. i liked how they brought something different into the show.

[Tab]

8. I missed the Chris Rock one, or only saw parts

how'd he screw up, or was he just too much for that group?

[JI7]

16. i'm not sure if he screwed up

but i think here were similar moments to some that Stewart got where they audience just didn't get them or they were too sensitive about the jokes.

but i think he did some things which were different and fun to look at such as going to the magic johnson movie theater and asking people their opinions there. many of them had no idea about the movies nominated for oscars.

[AllegroRondo]

28. A little too confrontational for some

but he was darn funny.

[UTUSN]

4. He. Was. OUTSTANDING!! n/t

[Cleita]

14. I so agree!

eom

[pookieblue]

5. I thought he was funny

but I don't think most people got it....


I don't know if he will be asked back or not. But I think he was better than Crystal...so I hope they do ask him back.

[TNDemo]

6. What is pulling a Letterman?

I must have missed that Oscars.

[Tab]

7. Dave is so funny in the right circumstances

But he pulled his "Uma... Oprah; Oprah... Uma" thing to introduce the two and it was just so unfunny and the nervous laughter just kind of became a Oscar milepost of what not to do.. it doesn't sound bad in print, but I guess you had to watch it.

If the audience is with Dave, he rocks, but you need a certain mindset, and if you're not there, it just seems lame sometimes. Again, don't get me wrong - I like Dave.

Actually I was worried Jon Stewart would run into the same problem - Jon is great behind his Daily Show desk, but I used to watch his standup when he first appeared and sometimes it was excruciatingly bad. I've been pleasantly surprised tonight. Very pleasantly surprised, and I'd be happy to have him back again.

[UTUSN]

9. Dave says, "I don't travel well..."

I thought Dave did FINE, but he bombed with the critics. His main bit that night was,

"Uma... meet Oprah... Oprah... meet Uma..."

[alphafemale]

13. "Uma? Una." " Una? Uma. " Or something like that.

And he kept saying it over and ovver.

[DrZeeLit]

15. Introduced "Uma" to "Oprah"... "Uma, Oprah"

and kept doing it all night.
I thought it was funny.
I was probably one out of zillions.

[KyuzoGator]

10. There should be an option for loving Jon but not thinking he'll be back.

He's been fantastic but these people just don't appreciate his humor at all. Too stupid.

[ChazII]

17. The Hollywood actors....

stuped??? Quick, alert the media. BTW-- I voted for Jon to host again.

[LisaLynne]

18. I agree.

Jon is doing great, but I have a feeling they won't ask him back. I think he's totally nailing it, but that might be the problem. :)

[Kat45]

19. I agree with you.

And that's too bad.

[Cleita]

11. Oscars smoked this year. The innuendos about BushCo weren't

subtle and I wonder if Oscars will be back next year? The Reich has to be really upset.

On edit: One more thing. Too bad Michael Moore wasn't nominated this year. It would have been the icing on the cake.

[Catchawave]

32. An observation

Seems there are more and more foreign nominees every year in all the categories, especially the technical categories.

This is very telling to me, also explains why the audience might not have "gotten" Jon's subliminal references to BushCo and the Reich-wing fundies?

Otherwise, the rest of the audience are too busy with their careers and families to watch TDS and read DU :D

[durrrty libby]

12. I think he’s doing a great job, but admit to bias.

His political jokes were subtle. (paraphrase) Pointing his head to the giant Oscar standing over him, he said, do you think if we all run up here and topple this guy, democracy will turn up in Hollywood?

He's brilliant!

[kittykitty]

20. Johnny Carson was the best. Billy Crystal, too. n/t

[Dem2theMax]

21. I loved him. And I loved the political references.

Many were just under the radar - well, low enough that repukes wouldn't get them, but I knew that DU'ers would. And heck, how can three hours of Jon be a bad thing?

[ChazII]

27. Especially the one

about a Democratic convention and Hollywood stars.

[AllegroRondo]

29. Loved the one about Bjork

not being able to make it this year, because Dick Cheney shot her.

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[mvd]

23. He was fine

He toned it down a little, but that's to be expected as it's not The Daily Show. And I don't think he got enough time.

[ChazII]

25. Jon

did fine. I say give him one more chance at the job. He had some great jokes. What wasn't to like? I still agree with post #10 by KyuzoGator this audience was stupid and did not get the jokes. That or they are unable to laugh at themselves.

[edbermac]

26. He emasculates his best material by being on Oscar...

The Cheney/Bjork joke was funny, but on the Daily Show he would have followed that with 5 minutes of killer BushCo jokes...Jon, you're not a good schmoozer....

[noonwitch]

30. He'll get asked again, but not next year

They don't usually have the same person each year.

[bridgit]

31. no, we came in late but what i seen wasn't funny...

[Bossy Monkey]

33. No. Overnights just in; down 10% from last year

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/03/06/ap2573180.html
Not his fault, but Oscars are all about the money. Of course if it turns out that he delivered the young audience, he might get another chance, but I would bet against.