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Oscars Unfunny
Double header! I may engage in some hyperbole in the following paraphrases, but I've also had like, five cups of coffee. Please bear with me.

First Unfunny: Seth MacFarlane.

Second Unfunny: Onion makes joke that not only falls flat, but takes out several bystanders and kills a kitten on the way down. The premise was, they called nine year old Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis a cunt. The joke was that no one would ever say such a thing about her. Except, in fact, people were saying that shit about her, and say that shit to little nine year old black girls all the time*. Link is Laura Hudson's explanation and commentary on the matter.

The Onion has apologized (that's the tumblr apology, I'm not linking to the facebook one because the comments hurt my soul even more), which moves us to phase 2 of the problem, where there are now people in the comments and elsewhere shaming the Onion for apologizing for insulting a nine year old girl.

Here's one where because his friends are dicks to each other, it's okay to dehumanize a nine year old girl. Other arguments include the assumption that all jokes are sacred, comedians never fuck up, and somehow it's a personal affront when someone else apologizes for hurting someone. Also humour is dead forever because they apologized. No links to those ones, those are in the comments and you can't make me go in there to paste.

You can't.

Speaking of comments, even positive posts about Quvenzhane were filled with nastiness in the comments.

Also for some reason some people think a nine year old girl should not have had a purse shaped like a dog.

I'm going to repeat nine year old girl some more.

Sidefail: The visual effects community sees red in the wake of Oscar protest and on-air snub. They didn't pay a VFX house, people are out of work, and when a guy tried to talk about it at the Oscars they cut the mic.

*Do not take my emphasis on the youth of Quvenzhane Wallis to in any way mean I consider that appropriate to call anyone of any age. I just feel so bad for her. People wouldn't call her by her name in the interviews, MacFarlane made a sex joke about her, and etc, etc, etc.

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eleutheria
2013-02-27 12:44 am UTC (link)

Did you mean to have anything after "Seth McFarlane"? I know he's king of the douchebags, but I wanted to know what he did here, specifically. The first linked article had a link to 9 sexist things that happened at the Oscars, for anyone else who wants to know how bad it got. I can't believe... no, I can believe it, it just outrages me, that the "I saw your boobs" song was allowed to go forward. Every woman they showed justly looked angry and humiliated.

And JFC that poor kid. Loved seeing T&Lo give her a "baby WERQ", and now I really want to see her movie.

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	cmdr_zoom 2013-02-27 04:11 am UTC (link)
	I did not watch this year, and now I am glad. I clicked on that link, read the list, and now my face is stuck on "AUGH." (Reply to this)(Parent)

tehrin
2013-02-27 04:33 am UTC (link)

It pans to Naomi and she is not amused and Charlize (who is a super heroine IMHO and saved a security guard who was having a seizure while she was on a red carpet in her Oscar dress)looks terribly bored. George Clooney also has a "I'm very uncomfortable, but I have to smile because I'm on camera" expression on. I just hope Quvenzhane didn't hear that one, but I suspect she has by now. :(

He's incapable of making a "joke" unless it's at someone else's expense, scat humor, or rehashed pop-culture jokes that other people have used and used better.

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	miss_eponine 2013-02-27 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	Not to minimize the point, but the reaction shots (during the boobs song) were not from Oscar night. I don't know when or where they were from, but everyone they showed during the song was wearing something completely different from what they wore that night. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tehrin 2013-02-27 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	I thought that throw looked a little too well placed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	back_in_black 2013-02-28 05:24 am UTC (link)
	They pre-recorded reactions to the song. Why? I do not know. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2013-02-27 08:10 am UTC (link)
	No, I pretty much meant his whole act. (Reply to this)(Parent)

cleolinda
2013-02-27 10:14 pm UTC (link)

See, they could have totally done something with that song, if it had had actual satirical lyrics instead of "we saw your boobs" repeated over and over again. I mean, work with the fact that a lot of the nudity referenced was from rape scenes, holy shit. Or that Scarlett Johansson's was from stolen pictures IRL. Get people taking the song at face value and then yank that rug out from under them. And maybe a tiny bridge about how he'd say "we saw your peen," but it's always NC-17, etc. It would RHYME. Seriously, they had months to do this and I could write it in thirty minutes. Do moar better.

(The reaction shots were filmed in advance. But I feel like there's a reason Jennifer Lawrence was told to do a little "yay, you haven't seen mine" victory dance, and that's BECAUSE IT WAS MEANT TO BE HUMILIATING.)

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full_metal_ox
2013-02-27 10:20 pm UTC (link)

See, they could have totally done something with that song, if it had had actual satirical lyrics instead of "we saw your boobs" repeated over and over again. I mean, work with the fact that a lot of the nudity referenced was from rape scenes, holy shit. Or that Scarlett Johansson's was from stolen pictures IRL. Get people taking the song at face value and then yank that rug out from under them. And maybe a tiny bridge about how he'd say "we saw your peen," but it's always NC-17, etc. It would RHYME. Seriously, they had months to do this and I could write it in thirty minutes. Do moar better.

Bonus points for referencing the famous Payback Is Hell scene from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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