It's WAR: Franco vs. Bruce Vilanch in post-Academy Awards war of words!

We have been patient to hear what Bruce Vilanch has to say about Franco's disaster Oscar Host Gig. Anyone knows that Bruce's comedy is brilliant and it showed with Anne Hathaway, but Franco fell flat and it was oblivious that Franco wanted to do his own thing! Bruce has Finally has broke his silence.

Bruce joked to the Vulture blog this week that “I have to call James Franco and tell him the show’s over. He doesn’t know. He took a nap and he woke up in class.”

Franco, juggling graduate classes with acting jobs and the Oscar gig, seemed a bit sleepy to viewers.

Observed Vilanch: “He has so many balls in the air, he didn’t get to town till Thursday before the show on Sunday. And so we e-mailed a lot. But we had a lot of meetings. He had a bunch of people who were writing for him, and if it had been him alone, it would have been different. But it was him and Anne Hathaway, and they both had to be serviced. So there was a lot of communication beforehand. But he didn’t get there.”

“I don’t think he realized how big a deal it is to do it until he was actually confronted with it,” Vilanch added. “I think he thought he would kind of … I don’t know what he thought. I thought maybe it was a performance-art prank, and then I realized he sincerely wanted to do it. But it’s outside of those guys’ comfort zones. The only people who know how to host those shows are people who get up onstage every night and say, ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A funny thing happened … ‘ Or people like Bette [Midler] who get up and sing all night and tell stories.”

Franco responded to Vilanch’s remarks via Twitter saying: “Bruce, he let me down.” He also posted this graffitied photo of the two from Oscar night.