Rating Jon Stewart's Performance
The BBC’s Entertainment reporter Ben Sutherland said that Jon Stewart ”shone” in his duties as Oscar emcee. Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe writes, ”He’s not musical, but he’s versatile enough to swing smoothly between jokes about politics, Hollywood, new media, and, most importantly, hair.”
But Stewart wasn’t always regarded so glowingly by the press. The Hollywood Reporter’s Ray Richmond woke up at an ungodly hour Sunday morning to defend Jon Stewart as host of the 2006 Oscars against the charges — especially from WashPo television critic Tom Shales — that he
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