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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/anne-and-james-hosting-slammed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been criticised for their hosting skills" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-anne-and-james-hosting-slammed.jpg" alt="James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been criticised for their hosting skills"/></a></p>
<p>Oscar bosses&#8217; attempts to revitalise the ceremony with James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosting backfired after the show was branded &#8220;boring&#8221; by critics.</p>
<p>The highlight of the evening was deemed to be when former host Billy Crystal took to the stage, earning the biggest laugh and a standing ovation from the audience.</p>
<p>Critics branded James and Anne&#8217;s &#8216;young and hip&#8217; take on hosting the Academy Awards dull and called for a return to humour.</p>
<p>&#8220;It looks as if the Academy will have to give the hosting honours to Ricky Gervais next year,&#8221; wrote Toby Young on the Daily Telegraph&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the only way to save the Oscars from certain death.&#8221; On Slate.com, a headline said the decidedly laid-back Franco &#8220;Might Have Been Reluctantly Emceeing a Distant Cousin&#8217;s Bat Mitzvah&#8221;.</p>
<p>And comic Andy Borowitz tweeted during the show: &#8220;This is riveting television. By the way, I&#8217;m watching the Knicks and the Heat now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jamie Masada, co-owner of the Laugh Factory comedy club in Hollywood, watched the show with a group of comics including Dave Chapelle. &#8220;It got boring very quickly,&#8221; he said &#8211; until Crystal came on. They all applauded.</p>
<p>&#8220;Finally somebody great! He was wonderful,&#8221; Masada said in a phone interview just after the show. The Oscars, he argued, need a comedian. </p>
<p>&#8220;A comedian keeps you connected all evening long&#8230; You wait to see what he or she is going to say about what&#8217;s happening. It gives the show heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>Masada said he especially enjoyed laughing at Bob Hope&#8217;s famous joke, in a clip introduced by Billy on Sunday, about the Oscars, &#8220;or, as they&#8217;re known at my house, Passover.&#8221; So did film historian Leonard Maltin, who calls it &#8220;one of the greatest jokes ever written.&#8221;</p>
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