Well, I can say this for absolutely certain...Ellen didn't do that good of a job as host. She probably won't be invited back.
Billy Crystal...I'd love to see him back as host.
Ellen did fine. I don't know what you were expecting. If anything they should drown that idiot doing the behind the scenes moments.
One of the friends I was watching with opined about halfway through that Billy Crystal should expect a truck full of money to back into his driveway some time in the next few months.
I didn't think Ellen was awful, but I didn't think she was great. She had a lot less to do than Billy used to, but that's been a general trend over the last few years. They've also done away with the elaborate song-and-dance numbers in favor of film montages, which I think is a good step. The shadow-dancing segments were a little goofy, but some of them were pretty clever, and they didn't go on long enough to annoy me.
But what do I know? I didn't think Letterman was so awful a few years back. He was ... Letterman. Had any of the folks surprised by his performance, or anyone involved in hiring him for the gig, ever watched his show? Ever?