Neil would have been great, but at this point I imagine people think of him as too TV to host the Oscars. Maybe give him a couple years and we might see him as a host.
Apparently the likes of Ben Stiller, Hugh Jackman, and Robert Downey Jr. turned down the gig. Martin and Baldwin are very interesting choices, they are both funny but have very different kinds of humor, which could very much work on their favor. I thought they were hilarious when Martin guest-starred on 30 ROCK, and I'm sure they're great in IT'S COMPLICATED (the new Meryl Streep romantic comedy).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"