McKinnon and Kumail Nanjiani were great hosting the Independent Spirit Awards (I think that’s what it was). Produced one of my favorite skits - McKinnon as Carol.

I think that the Mahershala joke was just part of a really odd pattern of race jokes that weren’t exactly offensive, but also fell flat and bizarre. The whole “What we learned is that black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz”, for instance. One of those things is ridiculous and one of them is not. Black…

He also made fun of that Asian Woman’s name: Yulree, commenting that her husband “Patrick” had a real name....

What an embarrassment.

And then he said something like, “everyone should get awards.” Uh, no, dummy. Moonlight should get the award. This isn’t candy. This is a first Oscar awarded to a movie with an all-black cast. Don’t minimize that... fool.

This is a good idea.

Listen...yes you covered my annoyances quite well. The fact that he spent a long ASD time mocking a baby’s name annoyed the shit out of me. Saying LA LA land should keep it...bitch give Moonlight their things and get off the stage! He can go his jokes were lame and he made some dog whistle comments that did not escape…

I think Duane Johnson’s introduction of Lin-Manuel Miranda shows that he should host.

Washington state had a similar moment of “oh shit.” Nine of the ten counties that voted for  🎺 also are the ones that have the greatest use of Obamacare.

This reminds me of every conversation on the subject of politics I’ve had with my father in recent memory. It usually goes something like this...

I’m sure they’ll point out that it was planned under Obama’s watch. I’m also sure they’ll forget to mention that maybe there was a reason it wasn’t launched under Obama’s watch, possibly due to Intel reports not being skimmed through.

I really like her whole look.

I quite like the idea that his narcissism is so acute, he doesn’t realise with that investigation, the grave he’s digging is his own.

In a world that’s increasingly scary and horrible, god bless the Dancing with the Stars people who even bothered to dream of casting Hillary and Michelle. Shine on you crazy diamonds.

The truly ironic thing is that it was theirs. Thats why the Dems thought that they would compromise on it, but the Repubs are not a party of conviction, they’re just anti-Dem.

Whoever is letting this neo-Nazi sack of shit out of the greys....

“I’m sure Beatty is thrilled that they fucked up and made him appear even more senile.”

Also, fuck all the people who sucked up to Mel Gibson (and Mr. Gibson himself, obviously). The episode of Girls I watched right afterwards seemed particularly well-timed.

Somebody upthread said that they print up two sets of those cards so that there’s a set on either side of the stage? So maybe the other one of the pair somehow got into Beatty’s hands.

Right. Beatty NEVER said “La la Land,” he sort of hemed and hawed and stared at Dunaway who grew exasperated and just said “Oh, it’s La la Land!” It was sort of odd at the moment, but now is easy to understand.

I’m caught between empathising with the La La Land crew and also thinking they were a little rude.