usmagazine.com - 2/25/2008
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Oscar host Jon Stewart got a few laughs at Angelina Jolie 's expense at tonight's show.
After presenting a fake award in honor of pregnant A-listers — including Nicole Kidman , Jessica Alba and Cate Blanchett — Stewart announced Jolie as the winner.
(The star, who debuted her baby bump in a tight black dress at the Independent Spirit Awards last night in Santa Monica California, isn't at the Oscars tonight.)
"Obviously Angelina Jolie couldn't be here — it's hard to find 17 ...
Discuss: Will Jon Stewart Rock the Oscars?
cinematical.com 2/21/2008 — There's a piece up over on the New York Times about Jon Stewart prepping for the Oscars in only eight days, instead of the couple months he thought he'd have before that pesky writers' strike happened. While on the one hand I was kind of holding out ...
Various Articles About the Oscars
dailyshownews.com 2/24/2008 — Q&A With Oscar Host Jon Stewart includes a number of quips, perhaps due to Jon's reluctance to talk about himself. What were your plans going to be for this Sunday if the strike hadn’t ended? They included Absolut vodka and...
Oscars Defeat Jon Stewart
time-blog.com 2/25/2008 — The writers' strike is over, right? That's what I'm reading in the papers, and Jon Stewart made his first joke of the night about it. But if you expected the Bruce-Vilanchists of Hollywood to storm back and prove their importance...
Angelina Jolie joke at the Oscars
pittwatch.com 2/25/2008 — Even though Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt aren’t at the Oscars tonight, she’s probably having a good laugh watching it at home, courtesy of Jon Stewart (my favorite Oscar host overall, by the way).
This isn’t verbatim, I apologize but the gist of his joke:
Jon Stewart: There are actually three pregnant women here at the Oscars tonight. Jessica Alba is pregnant. Cate ...
Jon Stewart shines as Oscar host
celebitchy.com 2/25/2008 —
Well the verdict here at Celebitchy is that Jon Stewart did a fantastic job hosting the Oscars last night. His monologue was really funny. He seemed a little tense for the first minute or so, but then relaxed and fell into a very comfortable ...
Is Jon Stewart part of Obama "smear" campaign?
tabloidbaby.blogspot.com 2/25/2008 — Jon Stewart took time from his Academy Awards® joke monologue to point out to 30 million viewers that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama's middle name is "Hussein" and that his last name rhymes with "Osama"? It came off as less a joke than ...
Jon Stewart’s Angelina Jolie Baby Joke
pittwatch.com 2/25/2008 — Thanks to the wonderful Lynette, I can share the video clip from last night’s Oscars where Jon Stewart makes the Angelina Jolie baby joke .
Those two seemed to get along well on his show, so I bet that if Angelina was at home in her ...
Elton Does It Again With A-List Oscar Party
popsugar.com 2/25/2008 — While the lucky and nominated were at the big Oscar show , some of the rest of the A-List partied the night away at Elton John's annual soiree to watch the awards. The shocker of the evening was that newly single Sean Penn showed up with Petra ...
More Oscar Montage Madness Leaves Whoopi Goldberg's Feelings Hurt
socialitelife.buzznet.com 2/26/2008 —
First Brad Renfro and now this.
It appears this was the Oscar of montage omissions with Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin both missing from the montage that included various moments from past hosts. Goldberg has hosted the awards show multiple ...
Whoopi’s Oscar snub an oversight, say producers
celebitchy.com 2/27/2008 —
Whoopi Goldberg and her colleagues on The View wondered aloud on Monday why the comedian wasn’t shown hosting the ceremony in the many clip montages shown at Sunday night’s Oscars. Whoopi was the first woman and the first African ...
The Academy Awards apologizes to Whoopi Goldberg
thepaparazzis.com 2/27/2008 — Whoopi Goldberg is the only Oscar winner to host the Academy Awards, so it came as a surprise to her and her The View co-host’s that she was left off the show’s montage, but Producers have apologized and said it was just a giant mistake and no harm was intended. “No harm was intended, and I feel very, very badly that she was left out,” Gil Cates said Tuesday. ...
A Little Oscar Talk —
Daily Show News
Jon Stewart: Own it With no time to prep, the Oscar host is going for broke. Jon Stewart and his team of "Daily Show" writers have just three days before Oscar night, but they're working like real newsmen on a...
Hillary Clinton to visit The Daily Show With Jon Stewart —
TV Goddess
Sure, I would have rather she (or Barack Obama) show up on The Colbert Report , but how cool is it when an actual, serious presidential candidate will show up and chat with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show ? So ... good for Hillary Clinton (who will appear on Monday's episode ).
Comedy Central's press release says:
NEW YORK, February 29, 2008 -- Senator Hillary Clinton will make an ...
Funny Man Brian Williams Dodges the Hard Questions —
Jossip
Comedian Brian Williams, who also hosts a newscast most weeknights, last night hit up the Daily Show , where host Jon Stewart created a must! blog! video clip by asking whether Williams was biased against Hillary, or Obama. The question didn’t receive an answer.
Six Degrees: Jon Stewart on ‘Sesame Street’ (and some Klassic Kolbert) —
No Fact Zone
I somehow managed to miss seeing this until today. Jon doesn’t have a huge role, but there’s just something about the combination of Jon Stewart and Sesame Street that puts a big ol’ smile on my face.
From the Sesame Street Podcast (via mefeedia ), here’s “ Sesame Street : Practice with Jon Stewart”:
Sesame Street: Practice with Jon Stewart
(You can ...
The Daily Show: February 26, 2008 —
TV Squad
In case you've been in a coma or off the grid for the past six months, you probably know that Jon Stewart hosted the Oscars on Sunday night. He played host once before, but the performance wasn't too warmly received. This time, I personally felt he did much better and looked more confident. One great Jon moment was when he let Once song winner Marketa Irglova come back onstage to give a quick ...
Olbermann rips off our Stewart-Obama story —
tabloid baby
We took a little stick yesterday for calling out WGA strike scab Jon Stewart for sliming Barack Obama at the Academy Awards-- linking the name of Hillary Clinton's opponent to Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Adolph Hitler on the world-viewed Academy Awards less than 24 hours after his fellow neolib Tina Fey (who, as headwriter, did more than anyone to neuter Saturday Night Live's political
WHOOPI GETS SNUBBED BY OSCAR MONTAGE —
URBAN-HOOPLA.COM
Whoopi Goldberg , the first African-American woman to win ALL the major show business awards-a Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and a Tony, was undeniably snubbed during the 2008 Oscar montage honoring all the previous Oscar hosts. Comedian/actor Steve Martin was also left out in the montage highlighting 80 years of the Academy Awards. Whoopi was the first woman of color to host the Oscars alone in ...
Jon Stewart Rocked The Oscars —
The Movie Blog
I wasn’t all that impressed with Jon Stewart as an Oscar host a couple of years ago. I love Jon Stewart, but he didn’t look all that comfortable on his first outing. When they announced that Stewart would be back as host again this year, I wasn’t thrilled. Yes, he is a HUGE step up over Ellen (what a train wreck that was), but still, he wasn’t all that great (not ...
ICYMI: The Most Awkward Jon Stewart Interview Ever —
Best Week Ever
Those of you not man enough to stay up into the wee hours of the night watching all of ABC's post-Oscar coverage probably missed the following clip, which we are calling "The Most Awkward John Stewart Interview Ever." About 45 seconds into an impromptu ABC post-Oscar interview with Stewart, a Harvey Weinstein lookalike busts in, right on camera, to catch up with Jon, telling the heartbroken ...
Emotional Morning On The View! —
LOVEBSCOTT.COM
The ladies of The View got pretty emotional when the topic of how Co-Host Whoopi Goldberg was snubbed by the Oscars last night! The Oscar winner herself was the first woman and first person of color to host the Academy Awards, yet she was left out of the montage of Oscar hosts on Sunday. [...]
Jon Stewart’s Short Window of Funniness At the Oscars —
Complex Blog
Daily Show host Jon Stewart was rather lame tame at this year’s Academy Awards, but he still managed to hit a few out of the park. Check out this clip of Stewart joking about McCain’s lack of youngness and what having a black or woman president usually means, well, in Hollywood at least.
Whoopie Goldberg in Tears Over Oscar Snub —
Allie Is Wired!
Whoopi Goldberg was snubbed by the Oscars last night!
The Oscar winner herself was the first woman and first person of color to host the Academy Awards, yet she was left out of the montage of Oscar hosts on Sunday.
How dare they!
Whoopi has been in numerous movies , I haven’t seen one that I haven’t liked. She’s hosted the event FOUR times.
Don’t feel bad ...
Reviewing Jon Stewart’s Starring Role —
Media Decoder
"Political satirist Jon Stewart returned as Oscar host on Sunday with a slew of jokes about the bitter Hollywood writers' strike that had threatened the show and the grim, violent themes of many of the films."
Jon Stewart Hosts an Academy Awards —
Vulture
Photo: Getty Images
In case you missed it in between the endless montages, interviews with past years' winners, and the 26 (approximate) musical numbers from Enchanted , last night's Oscar telecast had a host: Jon Stewart, returning after a passable performance as last year's emcee. "These past three and a half months have been very tough," he told the crowd. "The town was torn apart by ...
top 5 Jon Stewart jokes at the Oscars —
FlickFilosopher.com
• “Thank god for teen pregnancy.” (about Juno) • “Too often the Academy ignores movies that aren’t good.” (about Norbit) • “Oscar is 80 this year, which makes him automatically the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.” • “Usually when you...
Whoopi Goldberg Gets Oscar Apology —
ETonline - Breaking News
"The View" co-host gets choked up on the air.
Co-host WHOOPI GOLDBERG got choked up on "The View" Monday after being excluded from an Oscar-night montage -- but the omission was an accident, according to the award show's producer, ...
Whoopi Snubbed by Oscar? —
Extra
Whoopi Goldberg was the first woman to host the Academy Awards (in 1994), but was omitted from the host montage during Sunday night’s broadcast, leaving the “View” co-host choked up yesterday, where she told her fellow yentas, “Undoubtedly, I pissed ...
Oscar host Jon Stewart: Funny on the fly —
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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) Jon Stewart is sitting in a cushy white chair in a small, windowless room known as Kodak Theatre's "Dressing Room 3." It's spare other than a laptop on a table and dozens of bottles of water atop a tiny fridge.