Seth Rogen's monologue at this weekend's Independent Spirit Awards (celebrating all those movies that you're cool for knowing about) is really funny. That's pretty much all I have to say about it; it's worth comparing and contrasting it to Billy Crystal's fawning, don't-you-love-me-still? hosting job at the Oscars, if only because it's fun to see someone host an awards show and completely not give a shit. There's an art to not giving a shit, when you think about it; it's easy to come across as trying too hard to not give a shit, ironically, but Rogen manages to nail the tone.
This is also where you can hear his pretty wicked burn on Chris Brown (starts around 5:20) in. I wish I could say that literally, but alas, I'm just referring to a joke.
(In case you want to check out all of the winners, and guess what The Artist did well, you can do so at the Independent Spirit website.)
It's like Ricky Gervais' at the Golden Globes except actually funny.
That was awesome! He seems like such a normal guy, and probably crapping himself but he made the best of it, what a legend.
That was more entertaining than the whole Oscars show.
He said fuck on an award show? Well I never!
Also this is amazing.
I will definitely say that after watching both award shows on the weekend, I enjoyed the Independent Spirit awards far, far more than I enjoyed the Oscars, which I didn't really enjoy at all.
Yeah I am not sure how he pulled off "not giving a shit" to that level but he was pretty funny...
Seth Rogan, you so crazy.
His voice sound different to anyone else?
Wow this was surprising funny
OK, that was pretty fucking funny and if he wrote all the jokes himself, that is impressive. But it's too bad that no Oscar host would ever be allowed to do something this scathing, but I kind of wonder what Eddie Murphy would have brought to the job (even if Brett Ratner was directing).
Wow, he did a fantastic job with that opener! Made my day better watching this :)
What's with the Billy Crystal hate? Besides the occasional forced joke I thought he was fine at the Oscars.
HA! Gotta love Seth Rogen.
That was very funny. He should have hosted the Oscars. But honestly, I thought Billy Crystal did a pretty decent job.
Because headlines can't be made anymore without being contrarian for no reason.
Yep, that was real funny.
Aside from a handful of good jokes that was painful, he played it off being self-deprecating but I didn't think it was good. The whole talking the awards show down was just being an arsehole, not funny.
A bit heavy on the dick jokes, but still good.
That was pretty good. He did a good job just keeping on after his failed jokes. Also I died at the Olson sister part, mainly because I had the exact same thought process when I heard there was another olson girl.
As a long time Seth Rogen fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this.