So the Superbowl is today, which you would only not know if you've been living under a rock.
IF you have been living under a rock, then you may also have missed this Key & Peele sketch, which is an essential must-watch for awards junkies this season.
An impartial and unbiased (yeah right) examination of awards season madness
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Oscar Postmortem Pt. 2: Seth MacFarlane
Reactions from entertainment writers in
the wake of last Sunday's sweet and sour Academy Awards telecast have
been mostly sour. Has nobody anything sweet to say about the show or
its controversial host Seth MacFarlane? I'm just searching for some
sugar, man.
Not that MacFarlane needs me or anyone
else to defend him. He's no martyr. The style of frat-boy humour that
so annoyed people at the Oscars is that upon which he's built for
himself a small TV animation empire. Having gotten away with – and
actually thrived on – far grosser comedy in Family Guy and
American Dad for so many years makes the 39-year-old
millionaire somewhat untouchable.
So why do I feel compelled to debate
the vocal masses who have been quick to deem him public enemy #1?
Again, it's not because I feel he needs to be defended. Nor is it
because I think he did a particularly great job; his own
self-deprecating meta review of himself, “Seth MacFarlane Proves to
be Mediocre Oscar Host”, is pretty accurate in my opinion. So no,
this editorial is not a defence of the man, and it is not a
contrarian stand for the minority opinion. Rather, it is a plea for
cooler heads and less conclusion-jumping, which are becoming
increasingly rare in this digital age of hasty headlines and instant
reactions.
Labels:
Gervais,
humour,
Macfarlane,
musicals,
oscar telecast,
Zadan & Meron
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Sunday Top Ten: Leslie Nielsen line readings
I thought about doing this list after Leslie Nielsen's passing last November, but as the Oscar season was just getting started, I never got to it. Today I honour his wonderful career by highlighting my ten favourite line readings of his. I was hoping to work in something from Forbidden Planet, but nothing really stood out. Unsurprisingly, Airplane and the Naked Gun movies are healthily represented.
Labels:
Airplane,
humour,
memorium,
Nielsen,
The Naked Gun,
The Poseidon Adventure,
Top Ten,
Wrongfully Accused
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
If other directors had made The Social Network...
Do pardon my french, but this is too fucking hilarious!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
