The Academy Awards ceremony is just over a month away, and after the whole Kevin Hart fiasco, the show is reportedly going to be modeled after a Quaker communion: no host. That’s fine if you’re trying to abolish slavery, but Hollywood’s Biggest Night deserves High Church Episcopalian pomp and circumstance at the very least! A hostless Oscars—which didn’t work out too well the last time they tried it—shows a lack of respect for Oscar traditions, so much so that we went all the way back to the very first Academy Awards in 1929 in search of historical evidence to prove that our vague notion was correct. Then we remembered that host Douglas Fairbanks managed to squeeze the entire first ceremony into a tight—some would say curt—fifteen minutes, which didn’t really jibe with our whole theory of “Oscar tradition,” so we skipped ahead to the first televised Academy Awards in 1953. Watch host Bob Hope trick NBC into broadcasting an opening monologue dedicated almost exclusively to jokes about how terrible the new medium of television was:
from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2VP2mE4
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