A little flashback to see if he’ll repeat himself when he hosts again this year (with Alec Baldwin). Embedding disabled (nice use of social media, Academy!) so you’ll have to click through to YouTube to see it.

The statue joke at the beginning is referencing this, by the way.

Some of my favorite jokes here:

Please hold your applause until it’s for me.

Let’s see, how are we doing on time? Oh, we’ve got five hours.

The movies are too violent. I took a nine-year-old kid to see Gladiator and he cried through the entire thing. Maybe it was because he didn’t know who I was.

If you’re looking for an Oscars liveblog, may we recommend the one at Making the Movie.