“Saturday Night Live’s” two most frequent guests will host the Oscars together.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are teaming-up for jokes: dry, silly and in-between for the next Oscars, March 7. This will be Baldwin’s first time as host of the Oscars and Martin’s third.
Both Baldwin and Martin know what it’s like to be in the audience of an awards show, waiting to hear if they’ve won. Baldwin has two Emmys for “30 Rock,” plus nominations for a Tony and for an Oscar. Martin has an Emmy for writing, along with several nominations. He’s won two Grammys for comedy and another for playing the banjo on an Earl Scruggs album.
It’s unusual to have more than one person hosting the Oscars show.
But, it’s been done before.
If you go way back to the first Oscars in 1929, Douglas Fairbanks and William DeMille hosted together.
At the time, they were the president and vice president of the motion picture academy.
The last time there was more than a single host was in 1987 when Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan worked the room together.
(pic from Reuters, text from AP)
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