By Alexandra Heilbron on August 16, 2011 | 9 Comments
Billy Crystal, who has hosted the Academy Awards eight times, says he wouldn’t mind returning to host a ninth time. Crystal hasn’t hosted since 2004, because he says it requires a four to five-month commitment. “It got to be too much after a while and the sameness in my life,” Crystal told a fan who asked him about hosting the Oscars following a 20th anniversary screening of City Slickers in Santa Monica. “That’s why I pulled back. And then when I thought I might want to do it again, they were on to other people. It’s always fun. It’s really hard, but maybe one or two more times? I don’t know. They know where I am.” He added that he enjoyed presenting an award to honor Bob Hope at last year’s show, saying it made him “a little itchy” to return as a host. “I think the show needs to change. There’s too many awards and it has to sort of freshen itself up, and if I can be a part of that, that would be great.” [poll id=”304″]
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PLEASE COME BACK!!!
There hasn’t been anyone close to Billy. I wish he would come back.
Totally agree. Nobody seemed as comfortable out there on that stage as Billy did. My next fav were Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. They played off each other very well in my opinion but truly crystal belongs as host.
I would like to see “Whoopi Goldberg” do the show again but I do not think she wants to. It is great with her. She was the greatest host of all time, even beating out Billy Crystal!!!!!
Next year’s Oscars with Billy Crystal as host would be a real gift to us Oscar devotees. No one does it better than Billy Crystal!!!
I hope he does many more – he has been the best host of my generation. He definitely makes the show memorable.
He has my vote for sure. Love Billy Crystal so hilarious.
I agree with everyone’s above post, except for that Whoopi one 😀
Ricky Gervais.