The disgusting events that made Eddie Murphy quit as the 2012 Oscars host

The disgusting events that made Eddie Murphy quit as the 2012 Oscars host

Hiring a first-time host for the Oscars can be a crapshoot, and many of them have bombed live on stage in front of an audience of their peers and millions of viewers at home, but you get the sneaking suspicion that Eddie Murphy would have knocked it out of the park. Yes, it would have been the closest thing he’d done to a live comedy special in decades, and he might have been a little rusty, but even in the worst-case scenario, he could have com…