"This is a tough crowd for poetry," acknowledges Hamish Todd, 27, emcee and originator of the Crocodile's between-set poetry slams.
I rap in the middle". In addition to performing, he also writes for rappers, among them a group called the Evil 3 Emcees.
The editors at About.com listed him as the 14th greatest emcee of all time on their "50 greatest MC's of our time" list.
"We always knew that people have the talent, we're just giving them the forum to use it," said co-founder Nishant Shah, 28, an emcee for the evening.
Instead, Kimmel chose to follow in the footlights of the most famous and frequent 18 times Academy emcee Bob Hope, who, though he could sing and dance, never did on Oscar night.
Next, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation with 300 walkers (or chains) performing 2000 steps was executed using the python emcee module74.
"She's 17-year-old emcee, and she spits pure fiyah!" Ms. Kola wrote on her blog.
(In "Jeopardy!" as most Americans over the age of 6 know, the emcee, Alex Trebek, gives the answers, and contestants supply the questions).
Instead, the 23-year-old emcee has swiftly emerged to not only solidify a formidable rap career, but further position himself as a promising addition to a roster of hometown legends like Chance The Rapper, Common, Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco.
Twenty years ago Nas, a hungry 20-year-old emcee from New York's tough Queensbridge projects, issued his debut, "Illmatic".
The emcee, 49, is the first straight white man to preside over the telecast in the last four ceremonies — and, save for the last-minute addition of Billy Crystal in 2012, the first white man over the age of 45 to host in the past seven ceremonies.
