After having recently watched Ted I had rather high expectations for Seth MacFarlane as not only the creator of Family Guy, but last night’s Oscar host. His opening presentation received a mediocre response from the audience though it contained some good one-liners about Django Unchained. Once MacFarlane moved past his opening speech his host performance adopted a sexist and crude nature. With many sexual innuendos that seemed borderline inappropriate for a highly publicized event, and misogynist comments his hosting took a negative turn. It seemed as if he tried to over compensate for the audience’s failure to respond to his earlier comments with more bold and crude remarks. The audience provided more laughter and response to Daniel Day Lewis’s role-swapping Oscar award winning speech and when Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her gown on her way to the podium. MacFarlane could have built his jokes and comments around the musical theme and 50 year anniversary celebration of Bond, instead of paralleling the sexist theme of Family Guy. In comparison Hugh Jackman, and Whoopi Goldberg surpassed Seth MacFarlane. In all fairness Tina Fey and Amy Poehler should have doubled up and done both the Golden Globes and Oscars. We would have all been spared the misogyny laden with MacFarlane’s performance.
I think Seth was pretty disappointing. I usually enjoy when the host makes fun of the people there, but there is a way to do it without being sexist (look at Ricky Gervais and his 3x Golden Globes hosting). Overall, I agree that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler should just host everything.