Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.