| | 2007: Jon Stewart (Sunday, February 24, 2008) |
| | 2006: Ellen DeGeneres (Sunday, February 25, 2007) |
| | 2005: Jon Stewart (Sunday, March 5, 2006) |
| | 2004:Chris Rock (Sunday, February 27, 2005) |
| | 2003:Billy Crystal (Sunday, February 29, 2004) |
| | 2002:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 23, 2003) |
| | 2001:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 24, 2002) |
| | 2000:Steve Martin (Sunday, March 25, 2001) |
| | 1999:Billy Crystal (Sunday, March 26, 2000) |
| | 1998:Whoopi Goldberg (Sunday, March 21, 1999) |
| | 1997:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 23, 1998) |
| | 1996:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 24, 1997) |
| | 1995:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 25, 1996) |
| | 1994:David Letterman (Monday, March 27, 1995) |
| | 1993:Whoopi Goldberg (Monday, March 21, 1994) |
| | 1992:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 29, 1993) |
| | 1991:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 30, 1992) |
| | 1990:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 25, 1991) |
| | 1989:Billy Crystal (Monday, March 26, 1990) |
| | 1988:No Official Host (Wednesday, April 29, 1989) |
| | 1987:Chevy Chase (Monday, April 11, 1988) |
| | 1986:Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan (Monday, March 31, 1987) |
| | 1985:Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams (Monday, March 24, 1986) |
| | 1984:Jack Lemmon (Monday, March 25, 1985) |
| | 1983:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1984) |
| | 1982:Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau (Monday, April 11, 1983) |
| | 1981:Johnny Carson (Monday, March 29, 1982) |
| | 1980:Johnny Carson (Tuesday, March 31, 1981)1 |
| | 1979:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 14, 1980) |
| | 1978:Johnny Carson (Monday, April 9, 1979) |
| | 1977:Bob Hope (Monday, April 3, 1978) |
| | 1976:Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Richard Pryor (Monday, March 28, 1977) |
| | 1975:Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw (Monday, March 29, 1976) |
| | 1974:Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra (Tuesday, April 8, 1975) |
| | 1973:John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, and Diana Ross (Tuesday, April 2, 1974) |
| | 1972:Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson (Tuesday, March 27, 1973) |
| | 1971:Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 10, 1972) |
| | 1970:No Official Host (Thursday, April 15, 1971) |
| | 1969:No Official Host (Tuesday, April 7, 1970) |
| | 1968:No Official Host (Monday, April 14, 1969) |
| | 1967:Bob Hope (Wednesday, April 10, 1968)2 |
| | 1966:Bob Hope (Monday, April 10, 1967) |
| | 1965:Bob Hope (Monday, April 18, 1966)3 |
| | 1964:Bob Hope (Monday, April 13, 1964) |
| | 1963:Jack Lemmon (Monday, April 13, 1964) |
| | 1962:Frank Sinatra (Monday, April 8, 1963) |
| | 1961:Bob Hope (Monday, April 9, 1962) |
| | 1960:Bob Hope (Monday, April 17, 1961) |
| | 1959:Bob Hope (Monday, April 4, 1960) |
| | 1958:Bob Hope, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, David Niven, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Jerry Lewis (Monday, April 6, 1959) |
| | 1957:Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Rosalind Russell (Wednesday, March 26, 1958) |
| | 1956:Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm |
| | 1955:Jerry Lewis, Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Wednesday, March 21, 1956) |
| | 1954:Bob Hope and Thelma Ritter (Wednesday, March 30, 1955) |
| | 1953:Donald O'Connor and Frederic March (Thursday, March 25, 1954) |
| | 1952:Bob Hope and Conrad Nagel (Thursday, March 19, 1953)4 |
| | 1951:Danny Kaye (Thursday, March 20, 1952) |
| | 1950:Fred Astaire (Thursday, March 29, 1951) |
| | 1949:Paul Douglas (Thursday, March 23, 1950) |
| | 1948:Robert Montgomery (Thursday, March 24, 1949) |
| | 1947:No Official Host (Saturday, March 20, 1948) |
| | 1946:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 13, 1947) |
| | 1945:Bob Hope and James Stewart (Thursday, March 7, 1946) |
| | 1944:Bob Hope and John Cromwell (Thursday, March 15, 1945)5 |
| | 1943:Jack Benny (Thursday, March 2, 1944) |
| | 1942:Bob Hope (Thursday, March 4, 1943) |
| | 1941:No Official Host (Thursday, February 26, 1942) |
| | 1940:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 27, 1941)6 |
| | 1939:Bob Hope (Thursday, February 39, 1940) |
| | 1938:No Official Host (Thursday, February 23, 1939) |
| | 1937:Bob Burns (Thursday, March 10, 1938)7 |
| | 1936:George Jessel (Thursday, March 4, 1937) |
| | 1935:Frank Capra (Thursday, March 5, 1936) |
| | 1934:Irwin S. Cobb (Wednesday, February 27, 1935) |
| | 1932/33:Will Rogers (Friday, March 16, 1934) |
| | 1931/32:Lionel Barrymore (Friday, November 18, 1932) |
| | 1930/31:Lawrence Grant (Tuesday, November 10, 1931) |
| | 1929/30:Conrad Nagel (Wednesday, November 5, 1930) |
| | 1928/29:William C. demille (Thursday, April 3, 1930) |
| | 1927/28:Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille (Thursday, May 16, 1929) |