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Chris Rock hosted the Academy Awards once in 2005. How about a second time, this time in 2016? What do you say, Chris? Look who's back. #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/7TkkrDpSJM — Chris Rock (@chrisrock) October 21, 2015 Here was Oscars monologue from 2005. Roll the clip! And here is the official press release… …
This letter originally appeared on TigNation.com, who asked that it go viral. We’re more than happy at The Comic’s Comic to oblige. An open letter to the people looking for a new Oscar host, Now, let me start by saying that I don’t have a problem with Neil Patrick Harris. …
Flight of the Conchords, the New Zealand duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, enjoyed a two-season run on HBO in 2007 and 2009. Their two albums released from those seasons both received Grammy nominations, with “The Distant Future” winning the Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2008. Could Flight …
Steve Martin has hosted the Academy Awards three times, but never won an Oscar until this weekend, when the Academy awarded him with one of its honorary Governors Awards. Tom Hanks and Martin Short helped introduce Martin at the star-studded banquet. Here is Martin’s heartfelt acceptance speech. Roll it! Martin …
Phyllis Diller, who died in 2012 at the age of 95, helped blaze a trail for generations of funny women not only in stand-up comedy, but also in TV and film. “Just as people say Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backward and in high heels, Phyllis …
It’s a concept so nice they done did it twice! A very special Academy Awards edition of “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis” returned this week with part two of the “Oscar Buzz” talk, as Galifianakis has his Hangover co-star (and Oscar nominee for Silver Linings Playbook) Bradley Cooper sitting …
Get out of town, it’s a new Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis! It might have been Grammy night where you were, but here on the Internet, it’s all about the Academy Awards and the Oscar buzzzzzzzzzzz. Galifianakis and Funny or Die have five times the fun in this special …
Yesterday, one of the Academy Awards visited Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City and asked patrons to fake an orgasm like Meg Ryan did in that scene from When Harry Met Sally. This afternoon, Oscar is jogging up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps a la Rocky. Tomorrow, who knows? …
Seth MacFarlane isn’t just hosting this year’s Academy Awards; he’s also a first-time nominee! MacFarlane earned an Oscar nomination this morning in the Best Original Song for writing the lyrics to “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” from his live-action talking teddy bear buddy movie, Ted. That category historically has been …
In an odd twist of fate and Brett Ratner being Brett Ratner, we went from Tower Heist propelling Eddie Murphy’s comedy comeback to hosting the Academy Awards, to, well, none of those things materializing. And it’s still only November. Don’t believe the hype. First Ratner quit as Oscars co-producer. Then …
