"I'm not doing this for posterity," he says of hosting Oscar night. Stewart leans back behind his desk and explains how these awards are a 78-year-old entity and a pretty sweet franchise and he'll be borrowing interest from it, not the other way around. Can he bring a slightly different atmosphere? "That may be," he says.
"My impulse is always to start with absurdity, either the absurdity of me doing it, or whatever the absurdity may be of this year's films ... I'll do that or I will come up with a song parody that somehow figures out a way to rhyme 'Syriana' and 'Capote,' which is not going to be easy," though that quip comes out a little stale, the line perhaps past its expiration date, just as Cheney bits may be by Oscar night.
"But I'm hoping that the vice president shoots someone [else], probably around March 3, March 4," Stewart says.
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