So...Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were actually pretty funny. They were about 100 times less painful than I expected. Still, when Neil Patrick Harris was doing his song-and-dance number, I found myself saying, "Geez, why don't they just let him host the damn thing?"
Every Oscars ceremony I watch, I'm newly amazed at how stiff and awkward most of the presenters are. I mean, your day job is reading stuff other people wrote for you, and making it sound natural and organic, am I right?