Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin's Best Oscar Zingers

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After Neil Patrick Harris brought down the house with a musical number heralding the arrival of this year's Academy Awards co-hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the guys wasted no time cracking up the audience - and picking on the night's biggest names.

Nobody was safe - not Meryl Streep, Zac Efron nor Matt Damon - from Baldwin and Martin's repartee. Here are some of the duo's best lines:

• "[Best actress nominee] Gabourey [Sidibe] and I have something in common: in our first movies we were both born a poor black child." – Steve Martin, joking about his beloved comedy The Jerk

• "She was so pleased to be nominated with him, she sent him a beautiful gift basket with a timer." – Steve Martin, on best director nominee Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) being nominated against her ex-husband, James Cameron (Avatar)

• "Take a good look at us guys! This is you in five years." – Steve Martin to young stars Efron and Taylor Lautner

• "The moustache Brad Pitt wore in Inglourious Basterds was the same one Salma Hayek wore in Frida." – Alec Baldwin, on the actor's facial hair in Quentin Tarantino's World War II flick

• "Now we'd like to introduce two beautiful actresses. Because frankly, we're sick and tired of bringing out all these ugly actresses." – Steve Martin, introducing presenters Carey Mulligan and Zoe Saldana

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