But he isn’t very funny. More of a Keystone clod than a Keystone cop.
Tim Allen had as good a remark as can be had, in my opinion: “It’s not ok at a Comedy Club, concert hall, or hosting some cheeseball award show.”
The key phrase for those with some learned deportment of class, and classical appreciation of entertainment of both art and artist: “…cheeseball award show.” That is to say, the Academy Awards have little to do with art and/or artists and for the past 3 or 4 decades have opened the world to, what we used to call down-home, trash, and trashy behavior. But then trash is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. Allen chose to call it cheeseball.
Will Smith and his siren of openness to boys-night-out should get a special Charlie Chaplin award for the cheeseball slapstick moment of the year. He laughed. She then pouted, which made him manhood-it-up and with a very masculine wagon wheel roundhouse swing, he slapped Chris Rock. Rock laughed off the “punch.” Smith then strutted off the stage hopefully not having smeared his lipstick.
From his cozy little seat in the audience, he bellowed, with all due respect to his wife and the other ladies in the room something to the effect of keep your f****** mouth shut about my wife. He then repeated something similar. Robert DeNiro (fellow cheese-baller awardee) would be proud. The language of the modern artist. Come unto me thou language of speech. Suckle filth from my tongue.
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Proverbs 19:1
I still call these people and their little get-togethers trash. But then that’s just me.
It has been many, many, many years since I’ve watched the Academy Awards. I think Bob Hope was still hosting—maybe his immediate replacement—not sure, but a long time. It was a period when Walt Disney was getting his umpteenth award or John Wayne finally getting an award.
Though not entertainment as a fine piano concert of Van Cliburn or a classic opera like Rigoletto, it still had a formality (continued)
This post originally appeared on The Blue State Conservative.
