Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

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Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:00pm

http://oscarbeat.latimes.com/

If it's true, they should have picked Conan (but only because Billy Crystal turned it down).

Stewart will bring a freshness to the show, however with a more classy quality. Not the rotten freshness Chris Rock provided last year.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:01pm

Jon Stewart will be PERFECT!

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:01pm

This is a VERY good decision that the academy should be proud of.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:01pm

Either Conan or Jon Stewart is a fabulous choice!

Thank God I can watch the Oscars again.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:06pm

Great news! I love Jon Stewart.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:07pm

Perfect.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:08pm

YES!!!!

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:08pm

This just made me a lot happier.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:08pm

I know...this year the Oscars really will be "Must See" TV.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:09pm

Not the rotten freshness Chris Rock provided last year.

I'm sure, in your mind, you know exactly what you meant by that.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:14pm

I like this pick. Chris Rock was terrible! I only hope that they give up handing "lesser" awards out in the aisle. What was that about?!

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:19pm

Maybe I'll actually watch this year.

Yeah, that awards in the audience crap was ridiculous. I hope they scrap that.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:21pm

much better choice than last year

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:25pm

I've only watched The Daily Show a few times. It's OK. I prefer CONAN's show.

It's not confirmed by AMPAS yet, but it's 75% true. Announcement is expected tomorrow, if true, from AMPAS.

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--Aristotle

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:27pm

Jon Stewart sounds like a fantastic choice!

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:37pm

Last year they tried to "mix things up" by giving out awards in the aisle. They thought it would make the show seem younger and "hip." It was ridiculous.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:40pm

No, they thought it would make the show run faster. And it did.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:43pm

This might actually make it worth my while to watch the Academy Awards instead of just reading about the winners the next day.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:52pm

This is good news. I heart Jon.

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Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:02pm

Really? I read that they were just trying to mix things up. It still looked very silly and made the awards seem less important.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:06pm

I agree that it prob was a lil tacky, but the show did go much faster.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:08pm

Yes, it did finish on time for once. Yet, the greatest single moment in award show history was worth the wait at the very end of the Golden Globes.

GLAAAAAAAADIIIIIIIIAAAAATOR!!!!

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#23

re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:15pm

They could have eliminated all those superfluous film montages instead, if they wanted to conserve time. If I were a techie in the film industry, I'd be very insulted by what they did last year.

Took them long enough to announce a host. Billy Crystal said that it takes about 6 months to prepare being a host of the Oscars -- it's a long and important gig. I hope Stewart can entertain us that long. It'll be an interesting ceremony, to say the least, since most of the BP nominees will be political in nature.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:28pm

Is he funny? I mean the kind of funny who can get laughs from that tough crowd.

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re: Jon Stewart To Host 2006 Academy Awards Telecast

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:30pm

Yes, he is funny. Certainly funnier than Chris Rock.

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