9, 8, 7, 6. it s a huge deal. no matter how calm everybody says they are, it s the oscars for crying out loud. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our host, her majesty whoopi goldberg. good evening, loyal subjects. i am the african queen. [ cheers and applause ] the first images of the oscars i had was a black and white television set in long beach, long island in the 50s. bob hope was the host. thank you very much. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to chance of a lifetime. i d have to go to sleep somewhere around sound effects editing. some things never change. and i d get up in the morning and in my cereal bowl before school would be a list. my mom would write a list of who won what. i was a kid, and here was the people that had already been huge big massive stars for 20 or 30 years. i mean, even bob hope had been
the first images of the oscars i had was a black and white television set in long beach, long island in the 50s. bob hope was the host. thank you very much. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to chance of a lifetime. i d have to go to sleep somewhere around sound effects editing. some things never change. and i d get up in the morning and in my cereal bowl before school would be a list. my mom would write a list of who won what. i was a kid, and here was the people that had already been huge big massive stars for 20 or 30 years. i mean, even bob hope had been bob hope since 1932. i actually thought he was always going to be the host. it never occurred to me there would be anybody else. i just thought that was the height of sophisticated humor was bob hope at the oscars. it s a gay, handsome crowd here tonight. with an undercurrent of nervousness. the whole thing is like a big maternity ward [ laughter ] everybody s expecting. [ laughter ] oscar traditions did