Salon.com > We saw your boobs http://www.salon.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:20:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “We saw your junk”: The inevitable parody arrives http://www.salon.com/2013/02/26/we_saw_your_junk_the_inevitable_parody_arrives/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/26/we_saw_your_junk_the_inevitable_parody_arrives/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:29:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13212826

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/26/we_saw_your_junk_the_inevitable_parody_arrives/feed/ 9 Seth MacFarlane saw your boobs http://www.salon.com/2013/02/25/seth_macfarlane_saw_your_boobs/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/25/seth_macfarlane_saw_your_boobs/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:32:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13211510 A great host is entertaining and generous, exuding charm and authority. A great comic is funny. Last evening, Seth MacFarlane host of the 85th annual Oscars, was none of those things.

It did not feel like MacFarlane was hosting the entertainment world’s most prestigious event with hundreds of millions of viewers in more than a hundred countries, but an Oscar party for his bros in his parents' basement.

No doubt MacFarlane’s lazy, gratingly unfunny playing-to-the-lowest-common denominator jokes — Jews in Hollywood! Gays in musicals! Women! — are a hit with his fans. But I expected more from the creator of "Family Guy," one of the most successful animated comedy shows on TV. Instead, his lame cracks, the smug grinning and self-congratulatory laughter had the entertainment appeal of watching a kid flicking boogers into the hair of the kid that sits in front of him in English.

The best humor surprises us with its perceptiveness. The best provocative humor — and MacFarlane fancies himself to be quite the provocateur — has the ability to reflect back to us some central truth about ourselves and our culture we’d rather not confront.

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