Patterico's Pontifications

2/23/2015

Neil Patrick Harris Does Creditable Job at Oscars

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:13 am



I didn’t watch the show, but as usual, it was on in the other room while I worked. But afterwards, Mrs. P. was trying to show me a particular joke and ended up spending a few minutes fast-forwarding through most of the jokes.

First, Harris pops Gleen Grennwald‘s balloon a little bit after he accepted the Oscar for “CitizenFour: Smug and Smuggler” — by saying that Snowden couldn’t be there “for some treason.” Heh.

Then, after Patricia Arquette did a bizarre rant about women getting equal pay, and Meryl Streep was seen cheering her on, he did a joke about Streep suddenly realizing she was underpaid. Heh again.

Even his joke about the night honoring the “best and the whitest” was a good poke at these idiots overlooking David Oyelowo’s excellent performance in “Selma.”

UPDATE:

21 Responses to “Neil Patrick Harris Does Creditable Job at Oscars”

  1. Ding.

    Patterico (9c670f) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:13 am

  2. A bunch of leftists congratulating themselves and glorifying leftist propaganda. Don’t care.

    NJRob (d36337) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:22 am

  3. Yes, “Gleen Grennwald.”

    Patterico (9c670f) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:29 am

  4. those people are weird and, like Barack Obama, they do not love America

    Neil Patrick Harris acted like a snotty bag of douche when he was a guest judge on Drag Race and that’s the last time i saw him

    happyfeet (a037ad) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:31 am

  5. I didn’t watch and I understand all the winners were movies I didn’t see, making my judgement look pretty good.

    Mike K (90dfdc) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:37 am

  6. I just thought he pricked the self-satisfied balloons a couple of times. Nice to see.

    Patterico (9c670f) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:41 am

  7. he’s a good pricker

    happyfeet (a037ad) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:42 am

  8. Patterico: You or whomever wrote this one, might want to reconsider.

    See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2959076/Oscars-Neil-Patrick-Harris-makes-ill-timed-joke-winner-dedicates-award-son-committed-suicide.html

    Ditto no. 2 NJ Rob, no. 4 happyfeet and no. 5 Mike K. GLZ.

    Gary L. Zerman (d0c56e) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:46 am

  9. The Oscars are for girls. And even then, less and less for the real kind of girls and more and more for the Neil Patrick Harris kind. I hadn’t even heard of him till last night. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. What’s his achievement? Best “head” of studio? Meryl Streep must be real proud to have her name there, too, along with his, now.

    nk (dbc370) — 2/23/2015 @ 7:48 am

  10. I found it extraordinarily ironic that Arquette got up there and lectured and hectored about “equal pay” for a job where she worked one week a year for the last 12 years, and got paid more for that than many will make over the course of a lifetime.

    JD (e2e4ef) — 2/23/2015 @ 8:01 am

  11. BTW my friends in Hollywood tell me that Meryl Streep and Patricia Arquette pay only the minium to their crews.

    But to the left it’s always about telling other people what to do.

    Patricia (5fc097) — 2/23/2015 @ 8:31 am

  12. I suspect “Selma” would have done better if Obama was doing better.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/23/2015 @ 8:39 am

  13. I dont get why Selma or American Sniper were nominated. They re-told a story. At least I understand the artistic merit of Birdman.

    JD (e2e4ef) — 2/23/2015 @ 8:43 am

  14. Wage equality?
    Hollywood?
    Please.
    That town has the same or worse disparity you see in any industry

    There is an enormous gap between talent and catering server… and there should be.

    steveg (794291) — 2/23/2015 @ 9:04 am

  15. Even though within the industry the Academy Awards are considered the pinnacle, the month long awards season (Spirit Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA, etc.) with different groups honoring essentially the same Hollywood folks and films for the same things has diluted both interest and any real suspense of the Oscars for most of the general public in my view.

    For any of you who saw American Sniper and think it got robbed for political or other reasons, just consider this: American Sniper has grossed around 428 million in receipts worldwide and the Oscar winner Birdman has grossed about 75 million worldwide. So, I doubt either director Clint Eastwood or producer/star Bradley Cooper are shedding tears this morning.

    For those interested in such things the following excerpt from an interview Bradley Cooper gave about his deciding to phone Eastwood to “talk” Clint into directing the film after Steven Spielberg bowed out from directing it is kind of fun.

    DEADLINE: Did you know him enough to do that?
    COOPER: A little, yeah…..Now, you don’t really persuade Clint to do anything, he’s either going to do it or he’s not. But I said, ‘Hey, Clint, how you doing?’ ‘Bradley, how are you?’ And he’s like [Cooper speaks in this spot-on impression of Eastwood], ‘Yeah, I’m reading this Chris Kyle thing, 10 or so pages at night in-between shooting, yeah, so I guess Steven’s not doing it, huh?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, and I have to say I just watched Unforgiven again, and there are a lot of similarities. I love the idea of treating this like a Western, and investigating this guy and his psyche.’ Clint goes, ‘Yeah, yeah, call me on Monday, let me take a look at the script.’ I said, OK, great, Clint, thank you.

    DEADLINE: What happened on the next call?
    COOPER: He says [in a hoarse whisper], ‘Yeah, let’s make this f*cker.’ And that was it. I was like, ‘OK, Clint.’

    http://deadline.com/2015/02/american-sniper-bradley-cooper-finding-truth-eastwood-de-niro-and-david-o-russell-1201371278/

    elissa (f66785) — 2/23/2015 @ 9:05 am

  16. I left American Sniper in the back seat pocket on a plane while I was on around page 70, and I still can’t bring myself to watch it without reading it first. It’s a Catch 22, I think.

    Whiplash, on the other hand – I’m going to have to make time for that.

    I thought that Harris was good, and that crack about Streep was awesome for its sublime pith.

    carlitos (c24ed5) — 2/23/2015 @ 9:28 am

  17. the book and the movie, are different styles all together,

    narciso (ee1f88) — 2/23/2015 @ 9:32 am

  18. I found it extraordinarily ironic that Arquette got up there and lectured and hectored about “equal pay” for a job where she worked one week a year for the last 12 years, and got paid more for that than many will make over the course of a lifetime.

    Well, as NBA legend Patrick Ewing once helpfully explained during one of the NBA’s labor stoppages, “Yes we make a lot of money, but we have a lot of expenses.” So there’s that. Those Hollywood publicists, stylists, chefs, trainers, chauffeurs, housekeepers, bodyguards, spiritualists, accountants, political consultants, and hangers-on don’t come cheap.

    JVW (aa050c) — 2/23/2015 @ 10:06 am

  19. You may have thought NPH did a good job Patterico, but it seems even less people than usual bothered to find out how he would host. or else they waited for the reviews/results than will go for the streams.

    seeRpea (181740) — 2/23/2015 @ 4:00 pm

  20. NPH is probably one of the world’s leading leading men. Act, sing, dance, direct, write, magician, inventor … he’s come a long way from Doogie Howser. That said, we knew he’d be there, and that we could stream every bit of his performance today, skipping the rest of the noise.

    htom (4ca1fa) — 2/23/2015 @ 5:54 pm

  21. BTW my friends in Hollywood tell me that Meryl Streep and Patricia Arquette pay only the minium to their crews.

    L-I-M-O-U-S-I-N-E
    L-I-B-E-R-A-L

    Mark (c160ec) — 2/23/2015 @ 6:31 pm


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