What the hell were you thinking??
I sincerely hope that Hilary Clinton wasn't channel surfing as she prepared to turn in for the night at Crown Towers. In fact, I hope that abomination of a broadcast was not watched by any member of the international community. How embarrassing.
We can at least thank social media for giving us a platform to air our grievances, and let those responsible know just how poorly we rated their effort. As one jaded-viewer said yesterday, watching the show was like witnessing a train wreck. A really, big ugly, train wreck.
How bad was the pseudo-Green Room presentation area? Aside from being poorly lit and grossly disorganised, what was going on with the random industry twits boozing on with their backs to the camera? And of all the talented people (read: actual nominees) we have in Australia, how on earth did Rebel Wilson, Dylan Lewis and Nat 'I don't know why I'm yelling' Bassingthwaite constitute an entertaining presenters line up? Honestly when Ricki Lee started playing for the gay vote while interviewing Eric Stonestreet (in fact a straight man who plays a gay character), I dry retched.
Although I did feel sorry for the Chaser boys who were left babysitting Bob Katter on live national television. What an absolute mongoose. (Yes I really hope Hilary wasn't watching that bit).
The fact that uber-kooks Angus and Julia took out the top gong was rather fitting in the end. They've made a fortune from their well practised social awkwardness, and let's face it, just by opening their mouths they could have everyone looking at their shoes during a perfectly good awards ceremony.
Between the Aussie cricket team and the ARIA's there wasn't much to be patriotic about last week, was there? Although in the interest of being constructive, I propose the following formats are considered for the 2011 ARIA's:
1. A barbie
2. Live broadcast from Dylan Lewis's mum's place
3. Inviting members of the pubic to perform live karaoke between awards
4. A singing animals segment a la Funniest Home Videos
Although I did feel sorry for the Chaser boys who were left babysitting Bob Katter on live national television. What an absolute mongoose. (Yes I really hope Hilary wasn't watching that bit).
The fact that uber-kooks Angus and Julia took out the top gong was rather fitting in the end. They've made a fortune from their well practised social awkwardness, and let's face it, just by opening their mouths they could have everyone looking at their shoes during a perfectly good awards ceremony.
Between the Aussie cricket team and the ARIA's there wasn't much to be patriotic about last week, was there? Although in the interest of being constructive, I propose the following formats are considered for the 2011 ARIA's:
1. A barbie
2. Live broadcast from Dylan Lewis's mum's place
3. Inviting members of the pubic to perform live karaoke between awards
4. A singing animals segment a la Funniest Home Videos
