Inane time wasting @ the Oscars!
Am I the only person who, year after year, wonders why we have to spend the first 15 minutes or so of the Academy Awards listening to the host do the equivalent of a very BAD stand-up comedy routine filled with time-wasting, inane, insipid drivel?! Why all the stalling? If you're going to waste our time, be truly funny! Don't be facetious, sarcastic, insulting or vapid. Or better yet, since the Oscars are a classy affair, why not have the host/emcee TREAT it classily? Why do we need to sit thru joke after joke anyway? This ain't a stand-up comedy club!
Also -- am I the only person who, year after year, wonders why the host has to interject one tasteless, dumb, sometimes mocking, and sometimes even NON-understandable joke after another between presentations and entertainment numbers? Isn't the initial 15-minute monologue at the start of the show enough?
Just for the record, I'm not some stoic grump! ;D :) As just about everyone who knows me is aware, I love to be silly, make jokes, make people laugh, be made to laugh, and even laugh at my own self. I'm often told I have a very good (and often contagious) sense of humour.
So, I've concluded that *I* am not the one with the problem when it comes to humour at the Academy Awards. *They* are the ones with the problem. I'm just hoping that one year, they'll do away with all the inane, superficial crap that makes me embarrassed-by-proxy for the host, and they'll start having something REAL! Whether the hosts are fed their lines or allowed to create some of them on their own, the majority of them are basically still like school on Saturday -- no class!
(BTW, I'm still sick. It turned out not to be allergies, but rather a very yucky cold. If anyone feels inclined to send good thoughts, prayers, energies, etc. to my dad, I'd be grateful. *blush* As many of you know, he is 83, has advanced COPD and an enlarged heart, so any type of cold or flu could cause life-threatening complications. Fortunately colds are less contagious than flus, I've been staying far away from him, and he's started taking echinacea for a few days, so hopefully he'll be okay.)
Also -- am I the only person who, year after year, wonders why the host has to interject one tasteless, dumb, sometimes mocking, and sometimes even NON-understandable joke after another between presentations and entertainment numbers? Isn't the initial 15-minute monologue at the start of the show enough?
Just for the record, I'm not some stoic grump! ;D :) As just about everyone who knows me is aware, I love to be silly, make jokes, make people laugh, be made to laugh, and even laugh at my own self. I'm often told I have a very good (and often contagious) sense of humour.
So, I've concluded that *I* am not the one with the problem when it comes to humour at the Academy Awards. *They* are the ones with the problem. I'm just hoping that one year, they'll do away with all the inane, superficial crap that makes me embarrassed-by-proxy for the host, and they'll start having something REAL! Whether the hosts are fed their lines or allowed to create some of them on their own, the majority of them are basically still like school on Saturday -- no class!
(BTW, I'm still sick. It turned out not to be allergies, but rather a very yucky cold. If anyone feels inclined to send good thoughts, prayers, energies, etc. to my dad, I'd be grateful. *blush* As many of you know, he is 83, has advanced COPD and an enlarged heart, so any type of cold or flu could cause life-threatening complications. Fortunately colds are less contagious than flus, I've been staying far away from him, and he's started taking echinacea for a few days, so hopefully he'll be okay.)