As each week in 2022 so far seems to raise a different answer to that age-old question first posed by mid-century humorist Dorothy Parker – what fresh hell is this? – why don’t we just speak about this year’s pending Oscar nominations announcement on Feb. 8?
Join the Chair and Holly for the first ina series of all-things-Oscar pods where we unpack 2021’s inevitable award grabbers, or at least nominees.
The actual awards aren’t being given out until March 27th so we have a lot of content time.
And we have a lot of nominees.
Bring it on!
This year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has deemed there can be no LESS than TEN best picture nominations. They say it’s the pandemic but we say it’s more that we live in an age where –
EVERYONE GETS A PARTICIPATION PRIZE.
But more of that on the podcast, along with the Chair’s love for Andrew Garfield’s performance in Tick, Tick…Boom! And the relentless overpraise for the film…
How could you not love this face?
Well, you’ll see. Or hear.
Grab a Chair, I mean chair, have a listen and please inform us of how right and wrong we were on the afternoon of Feb. 8th.
How many thought last year’s pandemic Emmys, where the beloved Schitt’s Creek swept every major comedy award (Note: Including, at last, one for the beloved Catherine O’Hara), and in turn launched tens of thousands of Halloween/gay pride costume ideas, was a one-time thing?
Well, it only sort of was.
Shiny happy Moiras!
Yes, SC is no longer with us, leaving this year’s comedy trophies likely to come down to a battle between Apple’s Ted Lasso and HBO’s Hacks. But do you know what else IS still with us?
Envelope, please –
THE PANDEMIC!!!
Woo hoo?
So live from coast to coast on CBS for three hours plus on Sunday night beginning anywhere from 5:00-8:00pm, depending on your time zone, is
Drumroll, please —
THE PANDEMIC EMMYS!!!!
Prepare the “Ted Lassos the Emmys” headlines
Yes, it’ll still take place at the Microsoft Theatre in downtown L.A., where many of us in L.A. haven’t been since, oh, pre-pandemic days. But instead of getting perennial awards show host Jimmy Kimmel, this year CBS is trying something different. They’re giving us –
CEDRIC the ENTERTAINER!!!
Now truly, he happens to be a funny guy. And he’s the star of the CBS series The Neighborhood which certainly has nothing to do with this year’s Emmys except that, well, it is on CBS.
There better be good hats!
But let’s not digress.
You might be saying to yourself right about now: Chair, why do I give a flying fig about the best on television when the world is falling apart and I haven’t received my COVID booster shot yet because I’m nowhere near as old and connected as you are????
Well, the reason is:
You’ve freakin’ been doing nothing BUT watching TV most weekends this year (Note: Because you’re still alive) so OF COURSE you’re going to care!!!!!
Don’t act like this is not you!
That being the case, please join both The Chair and Holly on Tuesday as we unpack the SECOND ANNUAL PANDEMIC EMMYS on THE FIRST ANNUAL EMMY EPISODE OF —
We will recap what promises to be yet another strange awards evening, among so many strange evenings in the last 18 months; applaud and hiss the winners and losers and snubbed; and perhaps even politically incorrectly dish a couple of the outfits, especially among any perceived anti-vaxers.
Of course, none of that is as important as JEAN SMART winning for BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY for her career-topping performance in HACKS but, then again, what could be??? #IfSheLosesItsRigged.
Jean and the Emmy Technicolor Dreamcoat
The only thing we could think of is getting the vaccine, masking up AND having a few laughs.
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