Setting that old Oscar tone.

It is very, very interesting that Jon Stewart has been chosen as the next host of the Oscars:

Oscar's desperate search for relevancy continues. With the choice of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart as the next Oscar host, the film academy has apparently opted for the host most like the films that presumably will be nominated for the award itself — small, literate, political-ish, gems like "Brokeback Mountain," "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Capote."

But those "small, literate, political-ish, gems like 'Brokeback Mountain,' 'Good Night, and Good Luck' and 'Capote'" do want to be taken seriously at a serious event like the Oscars, even though they are pompous. That is because the Oscars are supposed to be serious even though they are not serious and also pompous, although yet not pompous nor serious. Perhaps the small and literate politcal-ish Jon Stewart can span the serious gap and be funny but not pompous, and serious at the same time.

That is clear.

UPDATE: This post has already attracted some unfair and bitter comments. Here is my reply:

it is quite presumptuous of you to be critical of this post, as if you understood it. Reading it over, even I don't understand it! It is immature to harshly judge something you don't understand. Given that my post is incomprehensible, I am afraid that you are now shown in a very bad light indeed. You are very judgemental.

You need to engage in a process of sincere self-reflection in order to grasp why you are so childishly dismissive of what neither you nor anyone else can possibly appreciate, simply because it is not very coherent.

Let that be an end to it.