"Mickey, I'm sorry we couldn't get you a better seat, but Vin Diesel is here." - such a savage (and true) indictment of how Hollywood works. A man who's box-office draw carried a whole studio for years, and one of the biggest stars of the 20th century is considered insignificant when he stops paying off.
*He was and remained a 'Titan' in Hollywood...but not for long!* *Shirley Temple was '#1' ...yet by 17 she was virtually finished in movies* *Vin Diesel movies MAKE MONEY and that's all that matters, and has been making money far longer than Rooney did* ( *Joe Yule Jnr./Micky McGurk/Mickey Rooney was a finer actor than Diesel could ever dream-of and even Vin knows it, yet Mickey's 'era' came and went very quickly because no one knew what to do with him* )
@@gerrynightingale9045 Rooney worked for 88 years start to finished from aged 6 until to the year he died aged 93. I don't know what era you are referring to that his career came and went that quick, he never stopped working when all his peers of his day retired. It doesn't matter what huge bank Diesel has earned at the box office - Van Damme and Seagal earned big bank in their day too, where are they now? 20 years from now Vin will be sitting in the back rows.
@@mrjones29 What a great response. I've never heard this before and from now on I'll use it whenever someone says something like this about someone extremely famous and fairly-rated.
@@sarac.3568 Well thank you very much. I don't even remember writing that 2 years ago. Looking back at it seems a complex way to say something what you've just described.
im a big fan of Steve Martin but I dont consider him a true comedian. Hes more of a showman song and dance kind of person. His best movie was Parenthood, inb which was more acting than being funny.
this randomly popped up in my recommendations and I have to say: this is one of the monologues I've ever watched. Steve Martin carefully balanced his set without going too far with jokes and social commentary on just about everything in the industry
Can you imagine what it takes to work that crowd. Mr Martin is always an inspiration and truly iconic. Wish they put Billy Crystal with him!! What a combo.
"I'd just realized that hosting the Oscars for the second time, it's like making love to a woman for the second time... I guess!" OMG, that delivery, though. He's amazing.
It was a reference to his first time hosting the ceremony. He said that time ".. hosting the oscars is like making love to a Beautiful woman... something i can do only when billy cristal is out of town.." he nailed it again this second time
This is one of my favourite Academy Award shows ever. The number of seminal female performances is astonishing: Kidman (The Hours), Moore (The Hours, Heaven), Streep (The Hours, Adaptation), Zellwegger (Chicago), Zeta-Jones (Chicago), Latifa (Chicago), Hayek (Frida), Lane (Unfaithful) etc. Truly a unique clash of Venus's and Athena's.
As far as I recall, Halle Berry won the Oscar in 2002 for her work in Monsters Ball (2001) and was presented her award by Russel Crowe who had won his Oscar the previous year (2001) for his performance in The Gladiator (2000). This monologue given by Steve Martin took place in the Academy Awards in 2003 where Halle Berry presented the award for Best Actor to Adrian Brody and was famously French-kissed by him as he got too emotional and surprised. Oscars 2003 were remarkable not just for the number and quality of female performers but also for the Iraq War which had caused a lot of controversy and tension in the ceremony.
@ CYP0 You’re absolutely right. Julia Roberts won Best Actress same year as Russell Crowe. Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won their awards the following year.
@@jogman262 Academy Awards 2002 (the previous ceremony to the one in the video) was remarkable for the number of African American artists who won major awards: Denzel Washington for Best Actor (second in history and first to win Best Leading/Supporting Actor as Washington had won a previous award for Glory (1989)), Halle Berry for Best Actress (first in history) and Sydney Poitier (RIP) for Life Achievement. Another historic night.
@@thewolfdoctor761 The poodles head? He woke up in the bed with a poodles head in his bed..Because the gay mafia doesn't want him using the phrase *Gay-Mafia* That one got one of his biggest laughs.
Ohmygosh. The faces of the actors here, I was 3 when this was happening! It's like, wow, it's refreshing to see in the moat weird way😭... Luv all these actors. Long live true Hollywood stars!
If I saw this monologue, I don't remember but anything Steve does, he does with such grace. I loved his performance in Cyrano--a high school poet and quite short, all I had to do to avoid bullies was be Cyrano for them and help them with Chemistry, not just with the cheerleaders, but with the Chem teacher, who was tough, lol. That was in '77-'79 when Steve Martin was just coming on the radar, like many of the performers he noted in this monologue. My career started in the Napa Valley, kind of a Hollywood North because of Falcon Crest, and Francis Ford Coppola, and working in the tourist industry there after college I met some of the people shown in this monologue, all earlier in their careers, and very humble and kind to those like me who were service workers, and the local residents of a community which stands at about 80,000 residents today. Now that I've just reached retirement, I look back to those times when great stars still shared by community members on this site. We first lived in Burbank after moving from Chicago in '66 and my middle brother was close friends with Richard "Jaws" Kiel, the Arnold Schwarzenegger of his time, who I last saw in the movie "Force Ten From Naverone". Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr's wife, shared a hug with me at Meadowood Resort in the Napa Valley when she stayed with us, though if Ringo was with her, he stayed in the Background. She was in "Force Ten From Naverone" and so humble, embarassing me, the desk supervisor, in front of the staff that worked with me. I never even dreamed I would meet Hollywood celebrities so early in my career, I chose tourism because I loved meeting people and I love traveling, just like them. They taught me how to manage any guest, because they were so humble themselves, that some, like Falcon Crest's Ana Alicia or the French Chef Julia Child, would chat with me asking for my tour recommendations if I was alone on shift, as I tended to schedule myself late in the evening.
Steve Martin is always awesome! If you need cheering up, find Him! You have to see his two man show with Martin Short...”Two Wild and Crazy Guys!” Sorry, Dan....
@@wilchambers1401 Oh ! I'm fine as far as that's concerned..but I'm supposing that since you didn't answer the question,You probably don't have or own a dog house..... NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT
I was thinking during his monologue, what if they got Don Rickles to host. His opening line, "As I look around this audience tonight I realize one thing, I'm the biggest star here."
Such lovely civility of all for good comedy...no politics to be hurtful...self deprecating humor that makes you want to watch the show. My how far they've fallen in just 16 years!
He should have a couple Academy Awards to his name. I remember Roger Ebert saying he should have got a nomination for ‘All Of Me’ with Lily Tomlin. I agree, he should have.
