— Meryl Streep giving co-presenters (and co-stars) Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway the evil eye from the audience when they quiz each other over who forgot to fetch Miss Streep her capacinno (I can’t spell it!)

— Helen Mirren, that classy English Dame, saying the entire title of “Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kasakhstan” with a straight face and dignified manner…making it all the funnier.

— Host Ellen asking Speven Speilberg to take a photo of her and Clint Eastwood in the audience. Then had him take a second one because it wasn’t centered enough.

— Ellen saying Dame Judi Dench was not at the awards because she was having “knee surgery” (she used air quotes) then adding that it was actually surgery on eyes. Then later she says she has to correct herself: “It wasn’t her eyes…it was her boobs.”

Ellen to nominees: “It’s not that we don’t have time for long speeches…we don’t have time for boring speeches!”