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Okay, Jon Stewart rocks in his own world on The Daily Show with large-scale jokes and routines in a small space. He bombed at the Oscars because the opposite pertained: he was doing small-scale humor in a huge space and seemed dwarfed by the hall, the moment, and the audience. It was painful, though not as painful as Chris Rock last year who just tried too damned hard. The Oscars need somebody like Robin Williams or Whoopie, somebody anarchic but who knows the biz. Then you get the great tension between the linear event and the host's eruptions.
Other notes: Cintra gripes about how bad everything was, then says everybody looked natural. Did she take a break when Dolly came on? Wow, those big-ass Steven Tyler lips on a face where nothing moved even when she was singing and tried to smile. It was gruesome and she looked like The Joker with boobs. Speaking of which, who put Selma Hayek in a dress that made her look lopsided? Yikes.
