Wow, @ucme. Did you stay up for the whole thing?
I thought the premise about Seth doing a bad job, and Capn Kirk trying to straighten him out was a clever idea, but it didn’t work. I don’t think they should have given him all those bad jokes to start off with. I think the theory was to start bad and improve, but they should know that first impressions set the tone for the evening and are really hard to recover from. Where is Johnny Carson when we need him?
It must be really hard to be the Oscars host. I can imagine that hardly anyone wants to take the job. There is little chance you will do well enough to enhance your reputation and a huge chance you’ll make yourself look bad. Anyway well known enough to be invited probably should turn it down. Anyway who isn’t well known enough to turn it down probably isn’t good enough.
I thought Seth was innocuous enough after his first few gaffs. I wanted him to do well after that first sketch. I thought it was a daring sketch, but one that was impossible to get away with. It just invites everyone to judge the host, which they will do anyway, so why bother?
Actually Amy and Tina would probably have done a much better job. Even Seth Myers would have been better.