Jon Stewart to Host Oscars

Excellent.  I think Ellen is great, I think Chris Rock is a brave choice, and I think Steve Martin is sublimely brilliant... but I do love my Jon.

Now, people absolutely have the right to disagree, but this article by Nikki Finke is just plain mean.  To wit, here's a quote from her review the last time he hosted:

"Then he sets up what starts out like a winner, noting how 'a lot of people say this town is too liberal...out of touch with Mainstream America...a moral black hole where innocence is obliterated in an orgy of sexual gratification and greed...' But then he ends with, 'I don't really have a joke here.' Why not, for chrissakes? Didn't this gig pay you to write punch lines?"

Um, Nikki?  That is the punch line.  Someone has lost their sense of humor somewhere along the way methinks.