Hosting the Oscars has always been a rough gig. Every eye in Hollywood is on you that night and the next morning, or in the era of social media, while the show is still going on, everybody has an opinion about whether the host was great or terrible. Many hosts, like Bob Hope and Billy Crystal, have done well enough that they were asked back multiple times, others have had the job once, and then never again. David Letterman is one of those we haven’t seen come back.
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