1:36 pm - 03/01/2012
While some had gripes with Billy Crystal's blackface routine hosting stint during the 84th Academy Awards, most were impressed that the typically long-winded ceremony finished rather early. It was the shortest Oscar telecast in over 30 years.
Though, apparently, that still wasn't brief enough for erstwhile 84th annual Academy Awards host Eddie Murphy. At the junket for his upcoming comedy, "A Thousand Words" -- a film that had its release date shifted to coincide with Murphy's Oscar-fueled "comeback" -- the star told "Extra" that, while he thought Crystal did a "great job," the show would have been "a little quicker with me driving."
As you'll recall, Murphy was hired as host of the Oscars by Brett Ratner, after the pair worked together on "Tower Heist." That union came undone once Ratner resigned as producer of the telecast following the firestorm caused by his homophobic remarks about rehearsals. Once Ratner was out, Murphy followed soon after, but -- in a surprise -- Murphy said he's still interested in the job.
"If they ask me again and it comes around, I'm totally open to do. It's one of the few things that I haven't done as a comedian. So, yeah, one day."
Hear that, Academy?
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What do you guys think?
Eddie Murphy: Oscars Would Have Been 'A Little Quicker With Me Driving'
While some had gripes with Billy Crystal's blackface routine hosting stint during the 84th Academy Awards, most were impressed that the typically long-winded ceremony finished rather early. It was the shortest Oscar telecast in over 30 years.
Though, apparently, that still wasn't brief enough for erstwhile 84th annual Academy Awards host Eddie Murphy. At the junket for his upcoming comedy, "A Thousand Words" -- a film that had its release date shifted to coincide with Murphy's Oscar-fueled "comeback" -- the star told "Extra" that, while he thought Crystal did a "great job," the show would have been "a little quicker with me driving."
As you'll recall, Murphy was hired as host of the Oscars by Brett Ratner, after the pair worked together on "Tower Heist." That union came undone once Ratner resigned as producer of the telecast following the firestorm caused by his homophobic remarks about rehearsals. Once Ratner was out, Murphy followed soon after, but -- in a surprise -- Murphy said he's still interested in the job.
"If they ask me again and it comes around, I'm totally open to do. It's one of the few things that I haven't done as a comedian. So, yeah, one day."
Hear that, Academy?
House Burger Sauce
What do you guys think?
only has something to say after the show airs of course...
but lbr, chris rock should've just stayed on stage and finished the job.
I was like "CHRIS DON'T GO!!"
chris should host next year
I had a great time
not that i'm surprised, since apparently we whitey can get away with everything. just more proof, i guess.
i agree. that shit was ridiculous. however, the academy is made up of old white guys who still think billy crystal is hip and irreverent.
And there was someone else who compared it to the great travesty of whiteface, and yet another person who compard it to Sacha Baron Cohen's Kim Jong Il ashes trick. Like, according to this person, if we can make fun of the recently departed, then can't we cut Crystal some slack? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
Edited at 2012-03-01 09:23 pm (UTC)
Billy Crystal was awful.
billy was so boring and not funny at all
has he ever been in a movie? oh well, he should host.