Jon Stewart will reprise his role as the host for the 80th annual Academy Awards, next year on February 24th. This is good news because I think he did very well in 2006 hosting the same ceremony. Steve Martin was funny host too but… I think Academy Awards should make a habit of hiring Jon Stewart like they did with Billy Crystal who hosted several times and too many is considered as the best Oscar host ever.
They did a mistake by letting David Letterman hosted in 1995, for some reason he bombed and that “Ooooprah, Ooomah” joke failure will go down in history as a disgrace.
Chris Rock, who hosted in 2005, did okay but in my opinion, Chris Rock has always been funnier when he’s allowed to use curse words.
To be honest, I thought Ellen DeGeneres’ performance as the host last year was disappointing, she was not as remarkable as she is on her TV show.
The point is, I’m glad Jon got picked to do this gig again because usually watching the Oscars event could be very long and dreadful but Jon Stewart’s hosting it in 2006 made it felt like a cool breeze.
Here were some of the jokes I remembered him saying that year at the Academy Awards:
“Three Six Mafia 1, Martin Scorsese 0″
“Talk about remakes, Walk the Line is like the white version of Ray”
Jon and his gang compiled political campaign clips as if the nominees were going viciously against each other to reach votes like politicians do.
Here is a clip of some of Jon Stewart’s jokes at the Oscars in 2006
