Despite Recent and devastating fires in Southern CaliforniaThe show must continue. In this case, the show is nothing less than the biggest night in Hollywood: Academy Awards. The 2025 Oscars ceremony It will take place on March 2 and welcomes a brand new host of the proceedings. That host is the necklace, red hair, ex-later in the night host Conan O'Brien, who will no doubt have a difficult task ahead of him. The Oscars host is something that is full of danger, as many of his past hosts can confirm, from movie stars like Jameses Jameses Franco and Ann Hathaway (remember the year they hosted?) Jackecman and even the hosts late at night like Jimi Kimmel. O'Brien must be playful with jokes but not Also Playful as if he seems to be saving directors or actors (especially in the light of fires). He must also make sure his comedy is not too inconvenient or unstable, so as not to alienate the mass audience (some of which may, shockingly, be not familiar with his style of humor). On top of that, he must follow the rates of legends.

If you are from the X or the Millennium era, you may think of a person when you think of an experienced Oscars host: Billy Crystal. Although he was the usual Oscars presence during the 1990s, he did not actually enter the distance from the celebrity who hosted or co-host the Oscars mostly in their history of television ceremonies. The standards holder is one of the most relevant performers of all time: comedian Bob Hope, who served as EMCE not less than 19 times Over 26 years. Looking back in the history of the Oscars hosts is a fascinating little capsule during and by itself, but although the last effort to host Hope in 1978, he is still the top of the mountain and no one is close to the top of it.

In many ways, Bob Hope has set the standard of how to host the Oscars, as for the A-Board audience in the room, as well as the huge audience watching around the world. At first there is a monologue, along with playful ribs on various films and award awards. Hope was also guaranteed to make a few jokes about the length of the ceremony itself (little that probably became a little more tired over time), at the same time manage to never feel like too nasty or thinking of anyone involved. Of course not every future host got that memorandum, For example when Seth McFarlin hosted in 2013 and performed a song about the various women who gave up to show off their naked bodies in previous roles. But Hope has managed to determine what the entire host of the Show awards should be with his continuous Oscars hosting through the arrival of television in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

For younger generations, however, it was Billy Crystal (who hosted the show nine times over several decades) that took the baton of hope creatively and expanded it. More modern hosts, including O'Brien, when he hosted EMI, as if he had chops on the nominated efforts themselves, sometimes inserting into real clips. And it really started with Crystal, partly because technology might not exist when Hope hosted the Oscars decades before. If O'Brien's own history of awards is proof, it can avoid that specific wrapper. When he hosted EMI in 2006, although it appeared in the world of shows such as "lost", "house" and "office", it was not like appearing in existing scenes; Instead, he was filming new bits with the actors from those plays on their respective sets. The truth indication can come from another part he did in the same Emmy, which has a different iconic comedian named Bob - namely, when he pulled out Bob Huhart in a closed glass box and said that if the play does not end up for a certain time, Newhart will die because of the limited amount of air in the box. It is unusual for material hope worked with even during the day, but still feels like a natural growth of a similar comedy.

In any case, the most obvious question to ask when you think about Bob Hope and his 19-stroke Oscars hosting is this: Can anyone hope to find their record? Is anyone close to that? Crystal remains the closest candidate, but he also hosts less than half times and is older now than he hoped when he stopped hosting the annual ceremony. The next person on the list will be multi-hiff, which hosts four times (and is nearly 70). The aforementioned Jimi Kimmel hosted only three times, and that's just because he chose not to host this year (due to the workload along with his late -night ABC show) that O'Brien enters. (And as much as Conan is one of the biggest comedians of his generation and I hope he kills him at the Oscars, he is older than 60.) So, the short answer to the question is probably not - the only person who may even look like The logical fit like Oscars The host is someone who has not done so before: comedian Johnon Mulani, who was memorable as a presenter, as well as Esce at last year's AMPAS Governors. But you can't start reaching Hope's heights without hosting.

So, for now, and for some time, Hope's record as a 19-time Oscar host seems safe from competitors. Although younger generations may not have much awareness of the overall comedian (outside, perhaps, for his appearance in "Muppet Movie" as a sly ice cream seller), hope is quite one of the most iconic performers whose influence has decades, from his TV specialists to his film. Work until his constant presence as friendly, if he is sharply funny, Esce. Maybe Conan will do good enough to come back (and unlike Kimmel, he no longer has a late -night show to take his weekly time), but even still, he will have a long way before he can top hope As the most common host of Oscars.