> Jeebus, people. It's a fecking teevee show with millionaires giving prizes to other millionaires. It won't cause or cure > cancer. Get over it.
Again, I didn't watch last night so I don't have an opinion about the show either way, but I have to say that this attitude seems awfully strange to espouse on a list dedicated towards discussing television. Sure, the quality of the Oscars broadcast is highly subjective and in the grand scheme of things pretty darn unimportant, but the same is true of Letterman, SNL, Louie, 30 Rock, American Idol, or almost anything that has ever been discussed on TV OR NOT TV. - dg On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Dave Sikula <dsik...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I've been amazed how Facebook utterly erupted as though MacFarlane had > stomped baby animals on live TV. > > He told some stupid jokes and some good ones. If you didn't like it, tune > out or FF. If you don't like him, don't watch his shows. (I don't, and last > night didn't change my mind,) > > This reminds me of the Louis CK SNL episode. I didn't much like it, but > it's exactly what you should be expecting when you hire the guy. > > The thing I'm loving most is the reaction to the boobs song, which totally > misses its irony. "How would men like it if they sang a song about men's > asses?" Well, if Hollywood was as obsessed about men's asses as it is about > women's breasts, you'd have a point. How many stories were there last night > about sideboobs or Anne Hathaways's nipples? What was the whole red carpet > about? How many comments did I see about that guy in the kilt? (Plenty. Was > I supposed to be offended?) > > The biggest problems last night for me were the quality of the writing > (not just the jokes; I said at one point that it felt like the whole show > had been translated into Swedish and then back into English), and the > timing in letting things go on -way- too long. The Shatner bit was funny > for five minutes. After that, it was diminishing returns. And the > Rudd/McCarthy thing was exactly what I would have expected from them: > unfunny gibberish that wouldn't stop. > > Jeebus, people. It's a fecking teevee show with millionaires giving prizes > to other millionaires. It won't cause or cure cancer. Get over it. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Monday, February 25, 2013 11:41:42 AM UTC-8, PGage wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Tom Wolper <two...@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<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. >>> >>> >> >> There do seem to be a lot of people who watch just so they can take a >> dump on who ever hosts; OTOH, there are a number of hosts who seem to be >> "darlings" of those who generate the conventional wisdom (e.g. Crystal, >> Martin). >> >> I am not big fan of McFarlane, but it does seem peculiar to bash him for >> delivering exactly what he was asked for. If they want the collective >> Hollywood ass to be kissed, get Billy Crystal again. They asked SM because >> they wanted to increase their appeal to the younger demo (TVBTN reports >> last night's Oscar-cast had >> improved ratings in that demo, from 11.7 to 12.1, about a 3.5% increase). >> Frankly I think Levine's take was stuffy and self-important. Hosting the >> Oscars is not performing for the Queen. Most of the stuff I did not like >> were not because it was too offensive or adolescent, but too hack (I think >> it is time to stop making jokes about Mel Gibson, unless we are still >> telling jokes about how big Milton Berle's dick was). If anything McFarlane >> was surprisingly sophisticated; word is he thinks he is Frank Sinatra, and >> that vibe certainly permeated the show, and led to the other part that I >> did not like about his act, which was its self-indulgence. But the singing >> and dancing was relatively non-ironic (more self-conscious and >> self-congratulatory than ironic really), and most of the bits that had any >> real bite were clearly done with the consent and participation of the >> targets; I did read a piece this morning by a reporter ripping McFarlane >> for the boobs song, which noted (with shocking ignorance) that during the >> boob song ABC cut to reaction shots of actresses who were clearly offended >> (oh brother). >> >> >> >> >> > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... 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