Ellen Will Host The Oscars

Ellen De Generes will host the 2014 Oscars.

edited 2nd Aug '13 12:33:36 PM by kyun

Yay!

"Lessie...we tried a black man, and nobody liked that. We tried John Stewart, and he was only OK. Then we hedged our bets with two hosts at once, and nobody liked that. Then we tried an even younger comic to get more kids watching, and it was a giant turd. ....Eureka! A hip lesbian comic! No one can bitch at us now!"

Has Ellen hosted the Oscars before?

yes, back in 2007:

She was just okay, not bad, just meh.

I thought Jon was awesome. It's just that he made fun of the celebrities and the whole spectacle of the thing for the entertainment of the viewers back home, instead of playing to the room. It's like the entertainment-industry equivalent of Stephen Colbert's White House Press Dinner speech.

I want them to bring him back.

edited 3rd Aug '13 11:06:26 AM by WarriorEowyn

I liked them all, including Franco. The trouble is, as you point out, the hosts can't disguise the rushed nature of the televised Oscars, so they don't try.

Rushed nature? Damn thing lasts like 4 hours.

Well, you know, cutting off speeches, confused looks as the nominees don't know where to exit the stage.

The people running the Oscars have always tried to solve a major problem by the next year, only to introduce more, and then fix THOSE, and the cycle begins again! They try to replace hosts all the time only to actually make the experience worse. Ellen seems like a decision that calms me down, for once.

I think Ellen will do a good job. She'll be better than Seth Mac Farlane, at any rate.

That's quite the Overly Narrow Superlative (I think she will do a good job too though).

That being said, while I didn't care for Seth's performance, unlike James Franco, at least he wanted to be there.