One more reason to give the Oscars a skip

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Ellen DeGeneres Tapped to Host Oscars
LOS ANGELES — Ellen DeGeneres has been tapped to host next year's Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday.

It will be the comedian and TV talker's first time hosting the Oscars show and first appearance on the award show. She has hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast twice and co-hosted it once, and hosted the Grammys twice.


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Ellen DeGeneres, host of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' poses in her dressing room for the show in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006. Comedian and TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been tapped to host next year's Oscars, the Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences said Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
"Ellen DeGeneres was born to host the Academy Awards," said producer Laura Ziskin in a statement. "I can already tell she is going to set the bar very high for herself and therefore for all of us involved in putting on the show. Now all we need is a lot of great movies."

The 79th Annual Academy Awards are scheduled to be broadcast live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC on Sunday, Feb. 25. This year's Oscarcast, in March, was fronted by "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

DeGeneres is the host of the syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," which has won 15 Daytime Emmys since going on the air in 2003.

DeGeneres also starred in the ABC sitcom "Ellen," which aired between 1994 and 1998, and the CBS sitcom, "The Ellen Show," which ran 2001-2002. She has also been a regular in films and has authored several books.

"When Laura Ziskin called, I was thrilled," said DeGeneres in a statement. "There's two things I've always wanted to do in my life. One is to host the Oscars. The second is to get a call from Laura Ziskin. You can imagine that day's diary entry."


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And before you say it ..... I thought the %&*@% was about as funny as a birth defect long before she "went public".
 
The Oscars wouldn't be so bad with Tivo. All one needs do is zip through the final hour and just watch the winning announcements... if even that. It shouldn't take more than 20 min.
 
Ellen is a funny comedian. Sure there isn't a little motive for you similar to your walmart boycot?
 
Well, obviously it's just a difference in taste. She most be funny to a lot of people to have gained the popularity she did.

Ellen isn't funny anymore, IMHO
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Anymore? You think she's lost something lately? I haven't seen anything she's done for a while. I just remember her standup being really good.

Last standup special she did was probably a couple years ago now so maybe you're right.
 
I used to like the show when it initially aired but now I think she is kinda phoning it in as far as her comedic abilities. She seems to be relying on a sort of neurotic quirkiness that to me is like Emo Phillips and Jerry Seinfeld had a baby and fed it too much coffee.
 
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