As Green Book Won Best Picture, This Desus & Mero Parody Became Just a Little More Vital/Important/Spot On

Comedy Gets Plenty of Nominations for This Year’s Oscars Thanks to Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, I, Tonya The Disaster Artist, The Big Sick, and The Sqaure

Jimmy Kimmel Will Return as Host of The Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Works In His Ongoing Feud with Matt Damon Into The Oscars

Florence Foster Jenkins, 20th Century Women, and The Lobster Score Oscar Noms, But None for Deadpool

Jimmy Kimmel Will Host 2017 Academy Awards

Chris Rock Is Still Hosting This Year’s Oscars

Chris Rock to Host The Oscars Again in 2016

Watch Mark David Christenson Get Everything For Free Pretending To Be an Oscar Winner

Tig Notaro Throws Her Name In For Consideration To Host Next Year’s Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Presents The Jim Kimmel School of Perfect Acting Complete With Matt Damon Snub

Watch Trailer For Oscar Nominated Argentina Comedy Revenge Anthology “Wild Tales”

Jack Black and The Lonely Island Will Be Performing at The Oscars

Neil Patrick Harris to Host Oscars

February 25, 2019

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Within their first episode, Desus & Mero took the now Best Picture Winner at this year’s Oscars, Green Book, to task for its many problematic layers (that includes on and off screen issues).

Green Book’s win, for our money, shows that the the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and still has a long way to go to catch up with the times.

As for a more thoroughly explanation, we’ll let this now-even-more-crucial sketch do the rest of the talking, more humorously.

January 24, 2018

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Comedy Gets Plenty of Nominations for This Year’s Oscars Thanks to Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, I, Tonya The Disaster Artist, The Big Sick, and The Sqaure

More so than any year that we can remember, comedy got a bunch of nods from the Academy (of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences). In fact, it was a surprising year for genre films all around (Get Out, Logan, etc.).

Not only is there more diversity in representation, but the type of film that is getting recognized at this level isn’t just a historical drama about marginalized people that are probably children. Sure, we would have liked to see Michael Showalter and Ruben Östlund get nods for their directing work, but it’s a nice step forward for what is arguably the most venerable awards ceremony in entertainment.

So, here are the nominations that 2017′s most critically acclaimed comedies landed for 2018 Oscars:

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri-Best Picture, Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell), Best Editing (Jon Gregory), Best Music-Original Score (Carter Burwell), Best Writing-Original Screenplay (Martin McDonagh)

Lady Bird-Best Picture, Best Directing (Greta Gerwig), Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Laurie Metcalf), Best Writing-Original Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)

I, Tonya-Best Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Allison Janney)

The Disaster Artist-Best Writing-Adapted Screenplay (Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber)

The Big Sick-Best Writing-Original Screenplay (Kumail Nanjiani & Emily Gordon)

The Square-Best Foreign Language Film

See the full list of nominees here.

May 17, 2017

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Sometimes, you almost forget that Jimmy Kimmel, long ago, hosted The Man Show.

Now, he seems to be a Hollywood favorite to host not only his own late night talk show, but the biggest awards shows that Tinseltown has to offer as he will be hosting The Oscars once again in 2018.

Cue that one Drake song.

February 27, 2017

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One of the best ongoing feuds in Hollywood, even though it’s a bit, is the long running, embittered grudge held by Jimmy Kimmel over Matt Damon. It’s a rare narrative thread that runs through the hundreds and hundreds of episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

So, it really wouldn’t be Jimmy hosting the Oscars be without an extended dig at Matt both in his opening monologue and in a dedicated remote segment.

Maybe Jimmy and Matt will give FX’s Feud a run for their money?

January 24, 2017

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*comedy nominees in italics
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
La La Land

Hell or High Water
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women

BEST ACTRESS
Emma Stone, La La Land
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tana
Toni Erdmann

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Kubo
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

Also, Hail, Caesar! got a nomination for Best Production Design, Florence Foster Jenkins received another nomination for Best Costume, and A Man Called Ove for Best Make-Up and Hair.

As to be expected with the amount of socially relevant movies and the uber-escapist La La Land, The Oscars heavily favored dramas this year over comedy.

While nominations for other awards gave a bit of hope for Deadpool to sneak in as an outlier to the otherwise, mostly heavy handed fare, it ultimately was edged out. Comedy, per usual, got its attention in the writing category with two brilliant films, The Lobster from Yorgos Lanthimos and 20th Century Women from Mike Mills. Of course, what would the Oscars be without a nod to Meryl Streep. Her turn as one of the worst singers of all time in Florence Foster Jenkins, was typical award worthy Meryl.

German comedy Toni Erdmann continues to rack up nominations, which will hopefully encourage people to go see it despite its nearly 3 hour running time.

The awards ceremony is set for February 26th and will air on ABC. Get the full list of this year’s Oscar nominees here.

December 5, 2016

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Jimmy Kimmel Will Host 2017 Academy Awards

On top of Hollywood finding their new go-to awards show host, Jimmy Kimmel will only have to cross the street from Jimmy Kimmel Live to host the Academy Awards held at The Dolby Theatre.

February 27, 2016

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Rather than worry about throwing your own Oscars viewing party, go watch Doug Benson and friends riff on The Oscars telecast at Cinefamily for Doug Benson Watches The Oscars. It’s free to attend, but Cinefamily Black Card members do get priority entry.

The show starts at 5PM this Sunday, Feb. 28th, but there’s a whole potluck and a podcast taping of Dining with Doug & Karen right before starting at 3PM.

All of our other comedy listings are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

January 24, 2016

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(via Variety)

In fact, he’s rewriting a bunch of the show after all the controversy over the last week.

The #OscarsSoWhite topic has been hotly trending all over social media and some have called for Chris Rock to step down as host of The Oscars as a stand against the lack of diversity within The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

However, Rock recently confirmed that he is definitely sticking around as host and won’t be wasting the opportunity to take it to whoever he chooses. The Academy has stated that they are actually backing whatever he’s going to do. In addition to the plan to introduce more diversity, this second vote of confidence in Rock is a good start for change to The Oscars.

October 21, 2015

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Look who’s back. #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/7TkkrDpSJM

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

It will have been over 11 years since Chris Rock was appointed as host of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ world renowned Oscars. As he is now set for host of the 2016 Oscars, a Rock that has a Broadway play, Top Five, and more under his belt will be taking the stage at Hollywood’s biggest night.

More than anything else, this means you should be able to see Chris Rock dropping in a lot of places to work on his monologue in the coming months.

March 3, 2015

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Wonderful sketch performer and improviser Mark David Christenson put on a quite show on the night of The Oscars. He wasn’t actually attending the ceremony. He was only holding a fake Oscars statue and walking around Hollywood in a tuxedo as part of a prank put on by New Media Rockstars. Doing that got him pretty much everything he wanted for free. He gets away with so much without much explanation that we’re pretty sure The Academy will be on the lookout for this next year.

Watch how he pulled it off here.

February 25, 2015

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“Might as well hire me now before the Latin Grammy’s catch wind of my availability and scoop me up.”

–Tig Notaro

Tig has written an open letter to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that she should be considered to host the 2016 Oscars awards ceremony. She gives plenty of great reasons like the one above as well as being able to promote the telecast through her podcast.

If this seriously happens, we’d bet it would be one of the most unforgettable Oscars ever and might bring back those 7 million folks who went missing from this year’s Oscars telecast ratings.

You can read Tig’s letter in full here and then please share it #HashTigOscars

February 24, 2015

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Jimmy Kimmel has got a lot standing traditions from doing Jimmy Kimmel Live. His post-Oscars special and punking Matt Damon are two in particular that he brought together last night in The Kimmel School of Perfect Acting after last night’s Oscars telecast.

Watch as the likes of Eddie Reymane, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Bridges, Sean Penn, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Gary Oldman, and, of course, Matt Damon in some degrading capacity learn acting from the “master” Jim Kimmel.

February 17, 2015

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Of the Oscar nominated pictures in the Foreign Language Film category this year, Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales (titled Relatos Salvajes when originally released in Argentina) presented by Pedro Almodovar stands out as it combines a bits of a comedy and a thriller in a few stories that represent a revenge anthology. The premise kind of reminds us a little of the brilliant Seven Psychopaths from Martin McDonagh.

See what we’re talking about in the trailer here and if your interest has been peaked, you can perhaps catch Wild Tales in limited release this Fri. Feb. 20th.

February 7, 2015

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There will be “a special sequence” at this year’s Oscars ceremony where Jack Black performs. There are no further details about what makes the sequence special or what the sequence entails or why it even necessitates a press release all by itself, but perhaps Jack will do a “Tribute” to the greatest movie of all time?

Adding more fun to the telecast will be The Lonely Island who will join Tegan and Sara for a live performance of Everything Is Awesome from The Lego Movie (via HitFix).

Potentially, there could be more good rambunctiousness at this year’s Oscars than the time Three 6 Mafia took home one of the coveted statues. Look for all of this when The Oscars go down on Sun. Feb. 22nd.

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October 15, 2014

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It’s about time that one of the best awards show hosts in the business, Neil Patrick Harris, gets a crack at The Oscars.

Not only is it a perfect choice with all his ability to sing, dance, be funny, and poised, that might leave all those live-tweeting wanting to not be snarky, but, apparently, it’s been on his bucket list for quite some time now.

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