As garbage as parts of that were, it would still beat the modern equivalent that would be a 15 minute segment on the achievements of robocop's makeup crew's assistant.
I agree. That was silly but fun. The Oscars take themselves so goddamn seriously that their attempts at humor only amuse the people doing the skits (Anne Hathaway and James Franco I'm looking in your direction).
At least this wasn't just some windbag actors pretending to be funny. It's someone who's actually funny being funny.