Hire This Dude

Officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences should be backing up Brinks trucks to hire Ricky Gervais as permanent host of both the Oscars and the Emmys for the forseeable future.

This is not a new concept -- Ben Grossman and others have written about it, and any sentient being with a lick of common sense has thought it -- but it bears repeating.

[Off soapbox.]