Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.
Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.