Eddie Murphy to Host 84th Academy Awards

[Harvey]

The Academy Awards haven't been exciting to watch in years (ever?), and most hosts are the victims of mediocre material written by somebody else, so I doubt this will affect the proceedings much. Still, it would be nice if Eddie Murphy could get his career on track and stop making stupid family comedies (the last two of which have been box office disasters). Maybe this will help?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

If he returned to his 80s style (Raw, Delirious) it could become legendary TV for the 5 minutes it airs (and they pull someone from the audience to take over)

Unfortunately, the delay would mean those watching it on TV would never see the real fun. Unless someone in the audience posts it to youtube .

As far as I'm concerned, Eddie Murphy from Delirious or Raw is what I'd like to see.

Break out the red leather suit!

Or the purple leather suit .

 

[bluedana]

Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, David Letterman, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, John Stewart. Eddie Murphy is just the latest in a long line of stand up comedians to host the Oscars. Comedians have the gift of riffing when the unexpected happens (not just relying on telepromters and scripts), and can, in some cases puncture some of the outsized egos because they are not completely "Hollywood." All of them are capable of keeping the gig PG-13(ish).

I think Eddie Murphy is genius, and his underlying bitterness toward Hollywood could make this brilliant.

 

[Amaris]

Anne was very capable of hosting by herself, it is just that the show was designed for both her and Franco not just her and it turned out badly. They should have just got Hathaway to host. I suspect that they asked her in the first place due to her excellent and funny routine with Hugh Jackman from the year before.

Agreed. Anne did a more than sufficient job, and held her own. James was a cardboard cutout and embarrassing to watch.

 

[TheSeeker]

As much as you can hate on Ratner for X-Men First Class,

X-men 3. Don't sully "First Class" name with Ratner

Right. What was X3's sub-title? The Fuck-Up of the Phoenix Saga?

Um, I didn't write that.

 

[Trekker4747]

X-men 3. Don't sully "First Class" name with Ratner

Right. What was X3's sub-title? The Fuck-Up of the Phoenix Saga?

Um, I didn't write that.

My mistake, "corrected."

 

[TheSeeker]

Thanks!

 

[spooky spice]

Anne was very capable of hosting by herself

Well she kinda had to, given JF wanted to be anywhere but here!

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Uhhhh yeah, I kind of addressed that in an earlier post.

 

[DarthPipes]

Eddie Murphy?

Really?!

First of all, at his best, his style of comedy is hardly ideal for a Prime Time Sunday Night Network TV audience.

Second of all he hasn't made a meaningful movie in years.

I will quibble, however, the movie he has coming out this winter with Ben Stiller looks good with Eddie Murphy back to his old form but that remains to be seen.

Nor do I think Eddie Murphy is going to be that much of draw, or appealing, to the types of audiences networks aim for these days.

It's an odd choice to say the least.

As I recall, Eddie's act was dropping F bombs every fifth word and making a bunch of gay jokes.

Still, this is an intriguing choice to say the least. I read an EW article on him where it's said that friends had been begging him to return to stand-up for years. I would assme we'll see more of that Eddie Murphy on-stage although I'm sure we're going to see him playing a thousand different characters on the video segments.

 

[Dream]

Anne Hathaway outshining James Franco last year wasn't exactly hard. Hell, a CGI ape outshined Franco in his last movie!

Murphy can't be as bad as Franco even if he tried.

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ You got to understand that Franco's method of acting is to act like any character he plays simply doesn't give a shit about anything.

 

[sidious618]

We don't want a Ricky Gervais situation.

Speak for yourself!

 

[Trekker4747]

As I recall, Eddie's act was dropping F bombs every fifth word and making a bunch of gay jokes.

Which I think was my point. The Eddie Murphy from "Raw", "Delirious", Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop and pretty much everything he did in the 80s isn't a good fit for hosting a clean and sterile event like The Oscars.

You got to understand that Franco's method of acting is to act like any character he plays simply doesn't give a shit about anything.

Ah, so he's a method actor, then.

 

[DarthPipes]

As I recall, Eddie's act was dropping F bombs every fifth word and making a bunch of gay jokes.

Which I think was my point. The Eddie Murphy from "Raw", "Delirious", Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop and pretty much everything he did in the 80s isn't a good fit for hosting a clean and sterile event like The Oscars.

You got to understand that Franco's method of acting is to act like any character he plays simply doesn't give a shit about anything.

Ah, so he's a method actor, then.

Quite true. Eddie hosting the Oscars is like putting Richard Pryor, an R-rated comedian, in Superman III a PG-rated film.

 

[Trekker4747]

And we all know how THAT turned out.

 

[Kass18]

OMG is he actually! That's a brilliant step up from last year, Anne Hathaway and James Franco, that was just terrible, they killed it.

Looking forward to some actual comedy