“It moves faster, but it’s not quite the result you wanted,' Billy Crystal, who has hosted the ceremony nine times, quipped
, the people I grew up with,” he said. “I always loved being out there. I loved the trust that the Academy had in me to get me out there. I felt like it was a great honor.”Plus, it’s helpful to have somebody standing by in case anything goes wrong.
“When you have a show that’s as long as it is, things are going to happen. And I think the problem with the no hosting perhaps is that there’s not somebody out there to capitalize on that moment,” Crystal explained, referencing such a moment that happened when Kimmel hosted in 2017: when“For me, some of my best moments were when something went wrong,” Crystal added, going on to share a story of his own that happened in 1992, involving 100-year-old producer and director Hal Roach.
Crystal went on to explain that instead of merely standing up and waving from his seat, Roach began to make a long-winded speech from his seat, which the audience couldn’t hear because Roach didn’t have a microphone. “Lines now are flying through my head,” Crystal explained of his thought process at the moment. “And then one hit like a slot machine in Vegas, and I just looked at the audience and said, ‘It’s very fitting because he got his start in silent films.”
“Well, I hope that happens again this weekend,” quipped Kimmel. “We have to stick together. These jobs are very few.”Crystal hosted the Academy Awards for four consecutive years from 1990-1993, and again in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2012.dropped out of hosting duties amid the fallout from resurfaced past homophobic remarks.
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