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This is me every day now:

Agreed.

It should be pointed out that making fun of non-European-sounding names is so unoriginal and unfunny that such jokes are completely pathetic for any “comedian” who has graduated elementary school, much less the host of the freaking Oscars.

Seriously. People need to fuck off with the don’t be so sensitive bullshit. That kind of casually accepted racism is not particularly clever or endearing. It is demeaning and embarrassing.

I feel she made her feelings on that pretty clear? Honestly, some of the jokes were tone deaf but my biggest issue is the length, it’s ridiculously long, they should have several people share the host duties, it was actually OK the first hour or two but unless you watch his show alot of it would be lost on you... his…

is awfully hard to take its diversity aspirations seriously, for instance, when the host of the Oscars makes an extended joke based on the pronunciation and perceived complicatedness of the Best Supporting Actor winner’s name—but that is exactly what Kimmel did, in a far too-long-riff about Mahershala Ali and his…

Lol I legit was annoyed like you didn’t win bye especially the guy who knew that they didn’t win and still gave his speech..like wtf guy your taking up Moonlights time you didn’t win I’m sorry but get off the stage

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…

Most people I know who used to watch stopped because of the length. I had a friend who hosted an Oscar party each year, which lots of fun until it was becoming a 5 hour affair, and people still had work the next day.

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.

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…

Yeah, when I heard him say that, I was like “WTF? Shut up.” It was just a shitty thing to say.

“My first instinct was to tell him to run! Take that Oscar and get out!” (While onstage, he did in fact say, “I think you guys should keep it anyway.”)

And unless you watch Kimmel’s show (which I don’t) and know about the fake feud (which I didn’t) it seems... weirdly pointless Why are they even supposed to “hate” each other?

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

Their fake feud is funny in the context of Kimmel’s late night show, but bringing it to a venue as huge as the Oscars felt like an inside joke that no one got.

Prior to 2016, I’d have said things were getting better, and we were moving, though slowly, towards a world where this kind of bs and, e.g., hanging a noose in someone’s workspace as a “joke” would become so rare that an instance would make national news. In February 2017, however, I’m thinking I was wrong.

Here’s my surprised face. -_-