In less than a week Billy Crystal will be once again hosting the Academy Awards on ABC. Looking at this promo picture of him for Oscar night, I want to know when he became Tom Cruise. Running is the Mission Impossible star’s thing, not the City Slicker’s. Is that AMPAS saying that Sunday’s show is a mission impossible and they need Batman to save him? And if that is what they are saying, which Batman will get the honor…Adam West? Michael Keaton? Val Kilmer? George Clooney? or Christian Bale? I am rooting for TV’s Caped Crusader to do the honors, but I think it will go to the one who is actually nominated this year?
Ever since Billy Crystal last hosted the Oscars in 2004, I have been wanting him to do it again! So yesterday when a vacancy suddenly happened due to Eddie Murphy dropping it, it became the opening he needed to host the show for the 9th time. The actor broke the mahvelous news on Twitter in a way only he can by saying, “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show” I guess now he won’t have to tell any pharmacist his name anymore when he goes to pick up his Viagra!
I am so elated that he will once again that I made the same sound Meg Ryan made in When Harry Met Sally, you know the one!
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…it wouldn’t be Russell Brand.
I saw these pictures or Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Russell Brand together like that and I could just picture Brand wishing he was the next generation of them. But even though I will admit, I think he is funny, he is know where as brilliant as those two! So if they had a son it wouldn’t be him, in fact I can’t think of anyone of the next generation who could hold a candle to the Oscar winner and Oscar hist, can you?
Before Rob Reiner directed Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, Meathead was lifting up his best friend in All in the Family. I wonder if the 21 year old actor knew in 1976 that 13 years later he would be working with Reiner again in one of the biggest chick flicks of all-time?
Billy Crystal shot When Harry Met Sally 2 for Funny or Die and it lives up to the website’s names. As in it’s Funny and Meg Ryan’s Sally has Died.
In the sequel Harry has replaced Ryan with Helen Mirren as Sharon and the movie’s tagline is “Getting Old Sucks”. You have to watch the short to understand what that means because it doesn’t mean what you think. And the moral of the movie is be careful who you tell you want to spend the rest of your life with.
I hope the people who are picking who should host the Oscars next year watch this and realize that Billy Crystal is still funny and is not dead and should once again host them. Long live Billy Crystal…and thanks to this short he will!!!
