Billy Crystal's Best Oscars Gags of All TimeBy Patrick J. Kiger||November 16, 2011
It looked like a Hollywood disaster of The Poseidon Adventure proportions when Eddie Murphy backed out of hosting the 2012 Academy Awards, but then came word that his replacement will be veteran Oscars host Billy Crystal.
The 61-year-old Crystal's return engagement promises a contrast to the 2011 telecast, in which Gen Y movie stars James Franco and Anne Hathaway were a little too self-consciously hip and not quite funny enough, according to the critical consensus. As Entertainment Weekly's Darren Franich opines: "It's almost as if the show has been going through a midlife crisis -- buying a shiny new car, dating people young enough to be its grandchildren -- and now it's admitting that, well, sometimes the safe choice is the best choice."
Regardless of how you feel about Academy voters' choice of nominated films, the musical numbers or the inevitably painfully long recitations of thank yous by Oscar winners, you can rest assured of one thing: Billy Crystal will be funny. He's the Toyota Corolla of comedians -- not the the flashiest, perhaps, but eminently dependable.
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