Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Oh Hell Yeah.


The greatest invention of the last twenty years – besides the Donatello action figure with rapid pizza-throwing action – is TiVo, and its fast-forwarding option. It allowed me to zip through Hugh Jackman’s hosting of the Oscars. I griped a bit about it before.

Yesterday, the Academy won me back, by announcing it had paired up two of my all-time favorites to host the upcoming Oscars: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Steve hosted twice already, and his monologues were amazing, including this gem: “Right now all over the world there are 800 million people watching us right now, and every one of them is thinking the exact same thought: that we are all gay."

And if you want to see incredible chemistry between Steve and Alec in the past, click above and check out this “SNL” sketch from two seasons ago. (Facebook readers can see it here.)