Maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't recall that being the case with Crystal last year...or Jon Stewart. Or Baldwin/Martin.
I think it is certainly the case that hosts can never live up to whatever the platonic ideal is, but MacFarlane and Franco certainly got particularly bad reviews. dg Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gmail <dgl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm out of the country so did not get to watch the show, but I did follow >> along on both the NY Times and NPR liveblogs, both of which were -- to put >> it mildly -- underwhelmed with MacFarlane. When they started fondly >> reminiscing about James Franco about ten minutes in, I knew things were bad. >> >> >> Linda Holmes' take: >> http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/02/25/172846842/the-oscars-broadcast-zooming-way-past-cheeky-to-land-squarely-on-crass?ft=1&f=93568166 > > I don't watch the ceremony so I usually refrain from commenting. It seems to > me that dumping on the Oscar host has become a ritual that takes place on > Monday morning every single year. Every year the previous evening's host was > the worst ever. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
