Exactly

FACTS!!! 💯💯💯💯

Got balls telling someone else not to sing.

@@harshailapakurty 7o7o⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶⁶

Agree,

I agree with everything except the audience of 1 billion. I lived overseas for 15 years and can assure you, no one else in the world watches the Oscars. No one. It's a purely American thing. No one else gives a sh*t about the Academy Awards. It's like the World Series of baseball. No one in the world is concerned with it. Every year I hear them talk about the audience of billions overseas. It's all horse manure. No one outside of American has even the slightest concern about the Oscars, or watches them, or talks about them. It's all PR BS. Sorry, Hollywood, you're just a bunch of pretentious a-holes.

@@gilltim5711 you havent heard of chinese and indian audience yet???

@@reubenism62 The Oscars are of no more interest to the Indians that the Bollywood awards are to Americans. Nor do they matter to the Chinese! Trust me, the people of China could not give a rats buttocks how American's win an American award. It's pure arrogance and marketing to believe the world watches this pathetic American vanity parade.

@@gilltim5711 There have been many non-American nominees from non-American films and wins in various categories. Just off the top of my head...Sophia Loren in "Two Women" won. Roberto Benigni won for "Life Is Beautiful". Marion Cotillard won for "La Vie en Rose". Besides acting, there have been many other foreign films that have won Oscars besides the Best Foreign Film award. Just search on Wikipedia for "List of Academy Award-winning foreign-language films".

I doubt the audience of a billion. How could they possibly measure that? But I do agree that Billy Crystal was one of the greatest hosts alongside Bob Hope and Johnny Carson.

damn right~！

It’s not 1960 anymore. This was exactly the selfcentered, tone deaf way to play „old Hollywood“ that cost them a lot of viewers. He even pretends to „sing black“ in those last seconds there.

​@@JJ-ze6vb FYI, he was doing a Louie Armstrong impression. Before that, in the "Ol' Man River" segment, he pronounced "along" with a very soft "l", the way a Southern black person would, but none of the well-known black singers pronounced it that way when doing that song - strange. Do you resent Billy's doing Mohammad Ali impressions, for which he became famous and which Ali and his wife liked a lot? Nobody in their right mind can accuse Billy of racial insensitivity. His father was a jazz impresario in the 40's and 50's, and famous black musicians were always visiting his house while Billy was a kid. Billie Holiday would occasionally take him to the movies. He's been best friends with Karim Abdul Jabar since high school, he could call Ali a very good friend, and I'm sure very few blacks would resent him for occasional impressions of black celebrities. Should we reproach Eddie Murphy for doing some savage send-ups of James Brown or Stevie Wonder?

@@JJ-ze6vb Is better to have people getting slapped, mean spirited jokes, and unamusing hosts.

@@Carlos-xz3vi mean spirited jokes? When?

+Matko Doris Amen to that!!! And quite frankly he does the best jokes.

Loved his hosting

I agree

I think Whoopi was a great host too

:) Would love to see Martin Short host.

Yes...it's willie crystal clear who the best Oscar host is......

@@josephrohland5604 Yeah ...Billy Crystal clear...

Steve Martin

Easy to forget considering how far he's run the character into the ground by now.

Actually, I think it was a sign that movies are becoming trash. If you can win for an idiotic summer film with no real point (except a huge budget, explosions, nudity, and billion dollar box office). This was the beginning of the downhill slide that the Oscars were doing. It's basically trash now. Trash winners are all that win.

They hand them to films like The Black Panther now. Not such a big deal.

@@katherynemero9355 What a shit take lol. If anything it is going the complete opposite direction. Most nominations are for movies even film fans don’t watch. Micro budget gender benders.

@@steveconn tf

No. He is the best

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Awesome night.

+Lee GaryB I dunno, Seth MacFarlane is pretty great too.

PixelPigu Oh he was pretty great don't get me wrong, but there's a reason that Billy was doing it as long as he did.

+PixelPigu HELL NO, he was one of the worst!

We're obviously not seeing the same thing

Obviously. McFairlane is one of the most evil people alive!

+lobona arcoiris Yeah the uncomfortable jokes are BAD...no one likes them...not funny and not classy

***** Well, as I said, I like it.

Are ya listening Jimmy Fallon, and Kimmel?!

You don’t think Scarlett was uncomfortable when Billy mentioned her ass?

Scarlett Johansson's behind and Clint Eastwood's similar age to people 'dead or dying'?

Billy isn't ever gonna be a great singer but he's one hell of an entertainer!!! His intonation tends to wander all over the scale but no one cares, he's funny, he can cram more lyrics into 2 minutes than anyone else in the house, and he is just enjoyable without fail!! He is one excellent entertainer... that's all!

@@MrGaryGG48 👍

+Adélaïde Naiyaleen At least he apologized in advance.

At least it was necessary for him to do so to Julie Andrews. But she wasn't the first to sing those soaring and timeless songs. The first Maria in the Sound of Music on Broadway was Mary Martin. 6 years later of course was when Ms. Andrews herself had that pleasure of being Maria. Just after she won her Oscar for Mary Poppins.

Better than those shitty movies.

zeek erram He really is the best all around entertainer which is perfect for this job... and can carry a tune to boot!

He did

Raine_Raine: I loved Robin but not sure he'd have been a good choice for this, wonder if he could keep control of himself.

Raine It would have never ended!

@Tom Sawyer Goldfinger; Bond Soundtrack.

The year Out of Africa won it was co-hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams.

Jackman was a terrible host.

Steve Martin was also pretty good

Guess you never heard of Johnny Carson?

Are you spamming with that statement? Bob Hope, Johnny Carson were miles better. Billy Crystal was the very best followed by either Steve Martin or Whoopi Goldberg. But Jackman lol. Pisstaker.

tripjet999 I stated that Crystal was - in my opinion - the best in the last twenty years, not the best in Oscar history. I would rank Carson way above Crystal in all time top 10.

Happy 15th anniversary to Monsters Inc.

Roz in the crowd would be so proud of him!

Steve is running up aside him

more sense of humor ..yes .. less violence & no one hollering fudge for fame🤣

It is though

and 12 years later he's still showing no signs of quitting

Love the graciousness with which Clint took it. Classy human

@@tarunverma1431 yes!

Can't get away with saying THAT to too many "stars" nowadays.

​@@tarunverma1431 Only Billy could have done that to Clint in 2004. He would have swatted Jack Black with the back of his hand.

Your English is terrific! Better than many Americans'.