I'm not sure I agree with Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars again. There's something about it that just seems... I don't know. Awkward? He just seems too not-Hollywood-like to host it. Too New York. I guess I just long for the days of the old Jon Stewart Show on MTV. The ending of the writers' strike has made the world a better place, hopefully. Because if it had still gone on, the Oscars would be more of a trainwreck than it already will be.

What that means, though, is that there won't be old jokes. Jon Stewart loves the political, and Fidel Castro recently retiring from Cuba will probably be a topic in his opening monologue. Bodog has a little prop on whether Jon will tell a joke about the former President of Cuba. The Yes on if he'll tell a joke is -150 and the No is at +110, which means he's likely to drop a punchline about Fidel.

Sure, but how many jokes about Fidel is he going to tell? And which celebrity is he going to connect with him? There's always good 'ol Jack Nicholson with his front-row seat every year, the bastard.

Labels: Bodog, Fidel Casto, Jon Stewart, opening monologues, Oscars

posted by Kari at 1:33 PM