It’s been 25 years since Robin Williams cohosted the Oscars—and he still has no desire to do it again.
So instead, he offered his advise to Eddie Murphy but unfortunately it wont be needed due to the fact that Murphy has quit after his producer friend Brett Ratner had a falling out with the Oscar production. Read on anyway.
Williams spoke to E!’s Marc Malkin:
“I like to do some presenting,” Williams told Malkin yesterday while promoting Happy Feet Two (out Nov. 18). “Come in for a minute and get the f–k out and then just sit back and watch Jack Nicholson in the front row.”
Some advice for hosting newbie Eddie Murphy:
“I say, ‘Eddie, be as many characters as you can be,'” Williams said. “Anytime he does somebody else, he kills it. If he does anything as funny as the Nutty Professor in one of those opening videos and if they let him become other people, he will destroy. He’s so good, man. He’s brilliant…It’s getting that first laugh. Billy Crystal said it, ‘Once you get the first laugh, you smell blood and it’s off and running.’ ”
Here’s the funny man pictured with another funny man, Jimmy Fallon.