Steve Martin and Chris Rock did a knock-out job not hosting the opening monologue of the 2020 Oscars tonight
tonight, maybe the Academy will get smart and hire them to not host the entire show next year.
The host-less event began on a wildly over-the-top and thoroughly underwhelming note, with R&B singer Janelle Monae donning a Mr. Rogers cardigan, launching into “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” to a mortified front-row Tom Hanks and then moving into a higher octane original number and embarrassing Leonardo DiCaprio by trying to get him to sing along. In grand Oscar tradition, Monae was backed by a chorus of dancers outfitted in movie-themed costumes. Dancing Dolemites, no less.
Martin and Rock then took the stage in a previously unannounced appearance, the two former hosts delivering the sort of Oscar Classic monologue that can seem downright quaint in the post-Gervais world.The cruelty-free jokes were nonetheless topical, with Martin wondering what was missing from the Best Director category?Green Book
actor had two Academy Awards to his credit. “You know what that means when cops pull him over at night? Nothing.”‘s Cynthia Erivo for her performance as Harriet Tubman, who hid escaped black slaves via the Underground Railroad. “Did the Academy get you to hide all the black nominees?” Martin asked, before shouting “Eddie, I loved you inGiving diversity credit where it’s due, Martin pointed out that in 1929 there were no black actor Oscar nominees.
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