Jon Stewart at the Oscars
An early report on Jon Stewart’s jokes at the Academy Awards this evening. An excerpt:
Stewart returned to some political jabs as the evening wore on, asking the cameras to point to a huge statue of the Oscar image above the stage.
And, in obvious reference to the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in the days after U.S. forces entered Baghdad in the spring of 2003, he said, “Do you think if we all got together and pulled this down, democracy would flourish in Hollywood?”
(Philip Seymour Hoffman has just received the Best Actor award. No barking, alas, but a sincere and moving tribute to his mother.)
