And i have to be honest with you. I was a little concerned because the oscars were sort of set up to be like a new york city winter long and white. To be fair. To be fair. But i thought Neil Patrick Harris did a good job acknowledging that. Tonight we honor hollywoods best and whitest sorry brightest. Larry see, thats a pro right there. You acknowledge the awkward racial reality of the evening and move on. Well done, sir. What else . Octavia spencer, no matter what happens tonight, do not take your eyes off the briefcase, got it . No bathroom breaks. No chitchat. Larry hold on a second. You cant make a joke about how white the oscars are and then turn around and literally make Octavia Spencer the help not well done, sir. Im going to have to take that back. Look, these oscars were so white that when lonnie lynn and John Stephens won for best song, they couldnt even use their black names. Thats right, commons real name is lonnie lynn. Good call on the name change, lonnie. Just saying. Bu
I guess well get them next time. Jon thats our show. Good luck everybody watch nightly. By the way in all of hullabaloo of the week before and the announcement of leaving and everything, i forgot to till, that, here it is on is on the blue ray and there are all kinds of feet oours, me dancing naked a bunch. cheers and applause jon you can get ahold of us t is on blue ray you can use it in your blue ray player. But its designed for. Here it is your moment of zen. They have adopted a theory of religion that is a thousand years old. They are required to worldwide call caliphate that will purify the islamic religion, kill or pervert every christ captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org larry tonightly the oscars hollywood finally watches a mexican cleanup without also asking him to see a dessert menu. Were asking who loves america more, the president or mr. Mcgee . And who owns patriotism anyway . Probably the same people who own Ever
At palenque, tonina bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings to find out their capitals their seats of power. And through this we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the st
Controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the inscriptions that weve been able to identify kings, to find out their capitals, their seats of power. And through this, we recognize now that there were many kingdoms. There was no unified maya state. There wasnt even just a few states. There were many, many states. narrator the first inroads into understanding the maya were made by spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed in the imperial wake of hernan cortes. Their discoveries included the ruins at copan. But interest in the lost civilizaon began to accelerate in the 18th century when father antonio de
Halfway around the world, in california, are clues to understanding the fall of mesopotamia, as farmers here struggle to overcome a threat to this fertile garden land. The ruins of ancient societies may hold keys to our own survival as, out of the past, archaeologists explore one of the greatest of mysteries the decline and fall of grand civilizations. Mission control ignition. And liftoff. Liftoff. Keach for more than five millennia, humankind has seemed to dominate earth, both creating and destroying grand civilizations. Each of these human experiments has changed our planet. This high Vantage Point brings us a new and sobering view. For the first time, we behold our world as finite, limited. On the darkened face of earth, the lights of cities record the expansion of our kind. Just 50 years ago, two billion people lived on earth. Today our global population has reached five billion. Within the next generation, it will double once more. Our exponential growth now threatens the very re