Dustin offers tips to Oscars host Ellen
Dustin Hoffman has signed on as comic Ellen DeGeneres' unofficial Oscars gag writer by urging her to crack jokes about the gold statue's lack of genitalia.
Appearing on her chat show to promote new film Stranger Than Fiction yesterday, Hoffman took the opportunity to give the host of the 2007 Academy Awards a few tips.
He said: "I challenge you, because I think it will be a wonderful thing to do, that when you host the Oscars… just take a look at that Oscar - it has no genitalia.
"I think you could say: 'Come on…' And every year it could be changed… If you were an Oscar you'd want something there."
DeGeneres replied: "Let me get asked back for the next year and then I'll bring it up."
