This year's Oscars host Seth MacFarlane has been asked to return to host the ceremony again in 2014, according to a report by Just Jared. The Family Guy creator's performance as host this year was met with a mixed response, so much so that he said on Twitter the following day that he wouldn't be interested in doing it again. Nevertheless, the telecast drew a large and young audience, and, according to Just Jared's source, the producers of the 2014 ceremony have approached MacFarlane about returning. The source says, "After defending his performance, the producers reached out to Seth and invited him back to host the show again. He’s not [...]
Andy Samberg is hosting the Independent Spirit Awards on IFC on Saturday, February 23rd, the day before the Oscars. Here's his first promo for the event, which could serve as the basis for a pretty compelling independent film itself. Look for Bear Legs to be up for some prizes at the 2014 Independent Spirit Awards.
One of the more memorable moments form Sunday's Golden Globe Awards was Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek standing onstage speechless after their teleprompter unexpectedly crapped out on them while they were presenting the award for Best TV Drama. They had just presented another TV award prior to that, and as Rudd explains to Vulture, he didn't know he was still on TV at first:
"We didn't know, I didn't know they were doing two [categories] — we never had rehearsal. And they didn't tell us, so we were just standing there, and I honestly thought they went to commercial! [Laughs.] I mean, there was nothing on [the teleprompter]! And [...]
Your 2013 Golden Globes co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler cut this promo for the ceremony today, proving they've already nailed down the title of "Best Awards Hosts Ever," a month before the awards show even starts.
Jimmy Kimmel will host this year's Emmy Awards on Sept. 23, his second big hosting gig of 2012 after the White House Correspondents' Dinner next month. "I hope to be able to do for the Emmys this year what Eddie Murphy did for the Oscars,” he said. So prepare for the Emmys producer to make an offensive comment and resign, Kimmel to pull out of hosting and then to make a universally reviled family movie. If he really wants to do everything Murphy did for the Oscars, that is. Otherwise, probably just expect a pretty normal and fun Emmys broadcast.
When asked by a Twitter user last night if he'd ever host the Oscars again if asked, Seth MacFarlane had kind of a surprising but understandable answer. MacFarlane's reply was, "No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though." The Family Guy creator's hosting stint this weekend received a pretty negative response online, drawing a lot of criticism for misogyny and racist jokes, so it makes sense that he wouldn't be too keen on hosting the ceremony one more time. Despite the cold reception, the MacFarlane-hosted ceremony attracted high ratings and at least his jokes went over better than The Onion's Oscars joke. With MacFarlane out [...]
It's awards season, and Conan O'Brien just hosted the Audiencey Awards ceremony on his show, recognizing the best work in late night talk show audience members. It's really important that people in this field get the attention they deserve every now and then, and this ceremony is the right way to do things. Hit the jump for a visit from the Audiencey Awards' fashion assassin.
Ratings are in for last night's Golden Globes with extremely well-received hosts Tina Fey in Amy Poehler. Amongst audiences 18-49, the show earned a 6.4 rating, up 28% from last year's 5.0 under host Ricky Gervais. With overall viewers, the ceremony was up 17% with 19.7 million watching. It was also the second highest-rated Golden Globes since the 2004 one, which is pretty impressive. Given the impressive ratings and how much fun Amy Poehler and Tina Fey seemed to have doing it, the Globes people are crazy if they're not meeting with the duo right now about coming back next year. And there's still time to just let [...]
The Guy's Choice Awards. It's a thing, apparently! I mean, I would think that pretty much any other award could also be called the "Guy's Choice Award" and it would still be accurate, but I'm glad they're bringing the subtext right up front over at Spike TV. In any case, the show invited Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to come do a routine, and he was at his Triumphy best. Sure, it's not quite the same as when he is insulting people he's interviewing to their faces, but this is the next best thing.
Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes 10 months ago. He made some jokes that pissed some people off, and it was a bit of a thing for a few weeks. It isn't really a thing anymore, but don't tell Ricky Gervais that! He just wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal about it for some reason. He's just still thinking about it, I guess. The whole thing a lesson in why taking the high road generally involves keeping your mouth shut, as it's tough to keep on the high road when you say things like "I host the Golden Globes, like some businessmen play golf. For [...]
The Writers Guild of America Awards were held this weekend and a lot of critically-acclaimed, beloved comedies won prizes. The three person writing staff of Louie (Pamela Adlon, Vernon Chatman, and Louis C.K. himself) won the Comedy Series Awards, and C.K.'s doing the bulk of the work there anyway. Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner, and company won the WGA's New Series award, beating out Veep and The Mindy Project. Portlandia, The Simpsons, and Modern Family all received awards too. While most TV awards shows tend to heap prizes on much-derided series like Two and a Half Men and other Chuck Lorre fare, you have to admit the WGA Awards are [...]
GLAAD (or the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, for those of you who don't know your acronyms) just released its list of nominees today for the annual GLAAD Media Awards, recognizing TV shows, movies, music, news, and other forms of entertainment that positively portray LGBTers. The nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series were Happy Endings, Modern Family, Glee, and newcomers The New Normal and Go On. The New Normal is centered around a gay couple and a surrogate mother bearing their child, and Go On features a lesbian lawyer character who is a part of Matthew Perry's grief support group. The only other comedy shows to receive nominations this [...]
The Golden Globes were held last night, with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing every bit as amazing as you'd expect them to and raising the bar sky high for next month's Oscars host Seth MacFarlane. Even with these two incredibly funny ladies hosting, the bulk of the awards show broadcast was still made up of boring awards show stuff with funny stuff from Poehler and Fey sprinkled throughout. The two highlights of the night were Fey and Poehler's opening monologue (above) and a bit by their SNL cohorts Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig (below), presenting an award. The combined 11 minutes from these two segments make up [...]
The ESPYs, which as I understand it are like the Teen Choice Awards of the sporting world, have a host for the 2012 edition: Rob Riggle. The Daily Show/SNL/UCB/Marines vet will take the stage for the live broadcast on June 11th. Former hosts Seth Meyers, Samuel L. Jackson, Lance Armstrong, and Justin Timberlake will also be making appearances, presumably alongside awkward professional athletes attempting to be funny. Should be fun!
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