Macfarlane had a go at her movie later, when he dropped a thud of a joke on Zero Dark Thirty. It's "a celebration of every woman's innate inability to never, ever let anything go," he said about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Shirley Bassey, Adele, Barbara Streisand, Jennifer Hudson and Norah Jones saved the evening and finally made the entertainment entertaining. You could sense the relief as the audience gave the singers rapturous applause. Lengthy standing ovations rewarded not just great performances (Bassey, Hudson and Streisand) but a break from the endless badly written snark.

No question of that happening. But at least the night came to a fitting end. After Michelle Obama raised the tone of the broadcast by announcing the best picture award for Argo from the White House, MacFarlane was forced to stand on stage and sing The Loser Song. Finally a joke that worked.

奥斯卡颁奖典礼刚落幕，一条有关奎文赞妮•瓦利斯的欠考虑的微博，即刻在推特网上引起轩然大波。一小时后这条微博被删除了。但这条调侃年仅九岁的奥斯卡提名者的微博似乎与这场为营造喜剧氛围而充满恶意和性别歧视的奥斯卡之夜正相匹配。

主持人塞思•麦克法兰在节目初始向观众介绍瓦利斯时就开始了并不风趣的言辞。他说道：“16年后，她对于克鲁尼来说就太老了。”台下有人笑了吗？

麦克法兰主持的这届奥斯卡颁奖典礼带有一种刻薄的意味，这比往届的奥斯卡秀有过之而无不及。往届颁奖典礼经常陷于既庆祝又嘲讽这个自我放纵的行业的尴尬境地。颁奖礼什么时候开始变成了一场笨拙的嘲讽晚会了？拜托编剧能写一些更有趣的笑话吗？

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