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Producers were trying to come up of exciting ways to get the audience back, inviting instagram influencers, controversially, excluding many of the below the line categories to nontelevised events, just trying to get as many people in and at the end of the day, all you had to do was have will smith hit chris rock on stage. >> [ laughter ] a moment that will go down in oscars history for sure. thank you so much for joining us from the hollywood reporter. >> thank you. >> america's top diplomat turning the middle east and north africa, russia's war is on the agenda, but it's not the only issue fo...

"west side story" back in the 1960s. >> of course, you obvious live cover these very closely. was there any standout surprise for you apart from the will smith punch? >> you know, i mean, we were going into this thinking that this was going to be a pretty predictable night. and in fact i wouldn't say there was any real surprises in terms of the awards that were handed out. you know, even the ones that we weren't sure about, best actress, jessica chastain i think -- nobody was surprised to have won, although she wasn't as much as a runaway front-runner as ariana debose or troy kotsur was. but i...

Night of the bellagio's o-theater, and joining is nbc's and this is a cool story about these performers returning to the stage. >> it is a huge moment, and last night dozens of performers returned to the stage, geoff, for the first time after 15 months of being away for the production of "o" which is a set of 14.5 million gallons of water, and last night, it was before a sellout crowd, and preceded by a parade and followed by a total party. take a listen. >> it felt like we are home. it felt amazing. aim happy to be back, and happy to have the audience back, and so, yeah, now we have 10 millio...

Audience, he goes to those things that he knows will resonate, knows will get the applause. he does it all the time. actually it is like a break in his chain of thought. you can tell it is obvious he pivots right to those applause lines. >> i saw him speak in new hampshire at the beginning of 2014 and he was nowhere near as good as he is now. he had a very untethered speaking style where he was bobbing from one thing to the next and when he felt like he was in trouble he would go to his tv catch phrase. he would tell a story about firing someone, right? that was his way to get the audience bac...

Please send our love to your brother, tom. i was thinking about this. we're living in this wtwitter twitter-fetwitter twitter-phere age and you guys were so in the moment reflecting what was going on your show every night. >> that's what we told cbs we were going to do. we had just got out of an innocuous half hour comedy show. it reflected nothing. they took away the music, timing, songs, audience. it was a one camera show. when they offered us to fill in against "bonanza" the last rated spot in television at the most important hour of the week and do variety and get our audience back, we sai...