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Photograph: Allstar/Blumhouse Productions Help! My eyes! FS March Get Out: how the film’s fresh take on horror took over 2017 The welts on his rear end were nothing next to the scars sustained by viewers. Note to producers: reading Trump’s tweets in a funny voice does not make for side-splitting comedy.ĥ Joe Pasquale getting his bumcrack waxed via video link surely signalled the death knell for this lamentable endeavour. Now.”Ĥ Monologues delivered by guest hosts tried to take a swipe at current events but failed.

The Nightly Show’s was especially weird, however, such as the desk that doubled up as a shelving unit, complete with wilted plant.Ģ None of the guest presenters shone, but Gordon Ramsay breathlessly delivering a spit-or-swallow joke to TV chef Gizzi Erskine during a taste test made an entire nation gag.ģ John Bishop’s terriers wandering aimlessly around a doggie assault course was one of many misfiring sketches, which in this case concluded with said pets looking at their master, as if to say: “Fire your agent. SR The Nightly Show: five reasons ITV’s attempt at news satire didn’t workġ Chatshows are notorious for squint-inducing sets – part lap-dancing nightspot, part suburban soft play. Sticking to the programme has never looked so appealing.

The painfully prolonged shambles exposed just how bad improvisational skills are in Hollywood. It was a plot twist, or rather a plot loss, that no one saw coming – least of all Team La La Land, who were still going through their thank-yous as bewildered Team Moonlight took the stage. Then the Oscars provided the appropriately disastrous finale, with Warren Beatty handing the biggest award of the night to the wrong movie.

At the Grammys she had her own mini-meltdown, starting her tribute to George Michael off-key (talk about a careless whisper), then stopping the music, apologising for “fucking this up”, apologising for swearing, then apologising for starting again. Not even the wizened Adele could stick to the programme.

Nobody realised she’d stayed in character as Joyce Byers between seasons. We will hunt monsters!”) was undercut by the manic facial contortions of Winona Ryder standing next to him – confused, amazed, defiant, suspicious, everything-at-the-same-time. Things turned a different shade of bonkers at the SAG awards, when David Harbour’s barnstorming speech for Stranger Things (“We will shelter freaks and outcasts … We will get past the lies. For the rest of awards season, winners looked out of place if they weren’t making some form of political statement, and – in the unfolding Trump era – there were plenty of options: the Muslim ban the border wall LGBTQ, racial and gender discrimination. Who can be surprised that it began with Meryl Streep, who has every reason to rebel against acceptance-speech protocol by now? Accepting her 8,000th Golden Globe, she stood up against the yet-to-be-inaugurated Donald Trump and his mocking of disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski, and the audience stood up in approval. But all that was swept under the red carpet this year – the year that awards lost the plot. We used to know the drill for awards ceremonies: some off-colour compere banter, winners reeling off their thank-yous, Jennifer Lawrence wearing vintage Dior, Helena Bonham Carter wearing vintage Edward Scissorhands. Warren Beatty announces the wrong winner of the best picture Oscar.

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