David Letterman Still Gets Asked to Host the Oscars
David Letterman's 1995 stint as host of the Academy Awards may go down in infamy, but during a very winning visit to The View this morning, Letterman revealed that he turned down the chance for a re-do. "You know, they were nice enough to ask me to [host] it again," he told Barbara Walters. "And I just said, 'Come on, are you drinking?'" Letterman was adamant that he would never return to the scene of the crime: "I did it once, I had my shot, I screwed it up, and almost put an end to the Academy Awards...I sucked. What are you gonna do?"
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What about Jay hosting? Doubt it. Oscar would only end up like Coco.
Actually Dave is really very self-deprecating, and he did an awesome job.
Hence the AAMPAS (?) asking him to do it again, he was Ricky Gervais-irreverent, puckish, and very funny.
Leno on the other hand would carefully choose his jokes as not to offend potential "pluggers" to his "white bread" M.O.R. snorefest.
I could see Conan or Jimmy (either) doing it as well.
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