I understood the Onion as saying something like: "this is what all of you tweeters who are talking smack about everybody else sound like, and I'm going to make that point by saying just the sort of thing you're saying, but about someone you would never dare say it about."
I mean, I get why that wasn't okay anyway, but am I misguided on the point that they were trying to make?
Sadly each tweet is taken on its own and I don't follow them so that tweet taken out of context (not that there really IS a good context for it) was just mean and, well, she's nine years old. There's just no circumstance where that'd be okay.
Watch the clip of JLaw talking to Stephanopolous on ABC, where she's videobombed by Jack Nicholson. You get a really good look at the back of her hairdo, and it is glorious.
I think I see what the Onion was trying to do -- she's so NOT, er, unpleasant that it's really a way of acknowledging how cool she is -- although my attempts at explaining it to an irony-challenged co-worker was nearly as much of a fail as the poorly-done, poorly-thought out concept in the first place. Plus, you just DON'T use that word, ever.
I suspect they thought it would be obvious that you wouldn't say that kind of thing about a nine-year-old, but people do say that kind of thing all the time on the internet, which cuts down on the chances people would see the irony, and you just don't use that word, anyhow.
Minority opinion here: I actually thought Seth did an ok job (but I like snarky humor and am a fan of Family Guy)(also, he's got a great singing voice and I find myself strangely attracted to him); YMMV because I also believe that David Letterman and Chris Rock were good hosts as well (Billy Crystal, I hate to say, kinda gets on my nerves with the smarm after awhile, Ellen was too nice and the James Franco half of Franco and Hathaway was a trainwreck). Could've done with the overly long opening (and the boob song), I only felt a few jokes were UGH, REALLY? kind of jokes (the Rihanna/Chris Brown abuse one, the Django Unchained script influenced by Mel Gibson's emails another. Whoopi got away with some dodgy comments when she hosted *shrug*). Most of his stuff I was laughing uproariously at
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I'm fine with Seth's looks, thought he was a good singer... but if they were supposed to be doing a tribute to movie music, why didn't they show some movie clips? There was just way too much Seth. And dude, EVERYONE thinks James Franco was a train wreck. There's no YMMV needed there! ;-) I kinda tuned out during the Bond thing until I saw Shirley Bassey... and yeah, the sound mix was quiet on some of the singers, which was annoying. I thought the Les Mix people weren't singing live (which, really, considering all the hoopla about their singing live in the movie!) but I wasn't looking closely enough to see the mics, I guess. It didn't SOUND live to me.
they should've picked either the Bond tribute (and bring in more music performers, like Tom Jones, Paul McCartney etc) OR the movie musical tribute and DONE more than just THREE musicals...and yes, showed actual clips from the movies/segue into signature song from that movie kind of thing.
And go by decades--30s/40s, then a break,50s/60s, break 60s70s80s break, then up to current.
I tend to think that humour isn't worth offense so I'm clear on the fact that the onion joke would have been much better not made. And better not means don't do it. There are too many people making those kind of comments about young girls in real life which really increases the "no".
But I think the intent is actually not too bad. It's indicative of the fact that she's clearly the sweetest thing in the world and everyone knows it. The kind of respect like when kids at school said, "George, you're such a bitch" and I'd know they were being nice.
... I feel like I could explain the onion joke to Joss, if it was said about him. I mean, I'd just tell him that c--t is a bad word and they're using it about him because he's so clearly adorable and everybody loves him. He'd say, "so is it sarcastic?" and I'd say "pretty close" and then we'd talk about bull ants or something.
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I mean, I get why that wasn't okay anyway, but am I misguided on the point that they were trying to make?
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I think I see what the Onion was trying to do -- she's so NOT, er, unpleasant that it's really a way of acknowledging how cool she is -- although my attempts at explaining it to an irony-challenged co-worker was nearly as much of a fail as the poorly-done, poorly-thought out concept in the first place. Plus, you just DON'T use that word, ever.
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And go by decades--30s/40s, then a break,50s/60s, break 60s70s80s break, then up to current.
WE should produce the Oscars!
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I tend to think that humour isn't worth offense so I'm clear on the fact that the onion joke would have been much better not made. And better not means don't do it. There are too many people making those kind of comments about young girls in real life which really increases the "no".
But I think the intent is actually not too bad. It's indicative of the fact that she's clearly the sweetest thing in the world and everyone knows it. The kind of respect like when kids at school said, "George, you're such a bitch" and I'd know they were being nice.
... I feel like I could explain the onion joke to Joss, if it was said about him. I mean, I'd just tell him that c--t is a bad word and they're using it about him because he's so clearly adorable and everybody loves him. He'd say, "so is it sarcastic?" and I'd say "pretty close" and then we'd talk about bull ants or something.
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