New York Magazine's Vulture has limned a list of reasons why Ellen Degeneres is a stable, safe choice for next year's Oscar host. Since last year's pick, “Family Guy” creator Seth McFarlane proved too edgy for the staid Academy, they may be seeking something more traditional with Degeneres, whose straightlaced comedy is more palatable for an older audience. The daytime talk show host last (and first) took the Oscar stage in 2006, when she focused her opening monologue on “the dream come true” of it all, and seemed visibly nervous. It was a far cry from the fraught performance she aced at the post-9/11 Emmy Awards, when she uttered what Vulture called an “immortal line”:
“What would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?” [VIDEO]
Something tells me Degeneres's Jewish jokes will land more smoothly than her predecessor's.
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