Bargatze is overexposed as hell.
What the hell did I just read? Its just someone complaining that the actors couldn’t give award speeches for as long as they wanted and that Bargatze should be banned from hosting anything ever again because he rushed people off the stage when they went over time. “I’d rather see actors have an extra 10 seconds than see Brad Garrett and Ray Romano do their comedy.” “These people obviously hate award shows.” “They should do what their core audience wants [like me, a celebtity gossip reporter].” Just pure whining, manufactured controversy, and putting all the blame on the host of the production like a child would do.
It seemed pretty clear to me:
- Nate Bargatze did a bit the whole night that donations to charity would be keyed to the amount that award recipients took for their acceptance speeches.
- The bit fell flat and wasn’t funny, but the bit continued the whole night, and unfortunately took attention away from the content of the acceptance speeches.
- In terms of actual time of broadcast, acceptance speeches are a tiny percentage of the overall production time, so anyone who wants to save time should’ve found it in all the filler that was actually scripted into the show.
- Nate Bargatze almost certainly wrote the bit and put it in, so the blame should lay with him.
Bargatze isn’t responsible for the entire production. If there was too much filler taking away from the ceremony that’s on the production staff.
Comedy is subjective so it’s just your personal opinion on the bit just like these awards are subjective and the personal opinions of the selection committee. There’s no objective science determining what shows or actors are “good” and which are “bad.”
I personally find the whole gripe ridiculous as what kind of profound words are we going to hear in a 45 second acceptance speech from some 15 year old actor or some lady who “finally!” won an award after four seasons on some show?
Bargatze isn’t responsible for the entire production. If there was too much filler taking away from the ceremony that’s on the production staff.
Of course. But this particular bit, woven throughout the entire production, was his. And unfortunately for him, there wasn’t an “offramp” for abandoning it when it wasn’t working. Which is something he talks about when describing his comedy writing and development process. It’s a rare miss, of the type that he has explicitly talked about wanting to avoid, in a show with a large audience.
The rest of your comment simply confirms that you’re not really the audience for these types of awards shows, which is fine, but at the same time if you’re not into these types of shows and don’t like acceptance speeches, your tastes/preferences should probably carry less weight compared to the people who actually look forward to these things.
That’s fair, I’m definitely not in the target audience for these award shows, but I do take offense to some gossip columnist accusing and disparaging someone because they didn’t get to see their fairytale version of an award ceremony. The only reason why I even bothered to read the article was because of the strongly worded headline making the man out to be a monster.
Wow, it’s amazing that multiple people organizing the show agreed to this.
