they took. the first time you re hosting. days before the ceremony seth tells me he doesn t expect to win over critics. i go in at about minus-10 with the press so, got to get myself to at least a level where they can tolerate me and then maybe from there i have a shot at actually getting a positive review. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, seth macfarlane. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. the curtain rises february 24th, 2013. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the oscars. and the quest to make tommy lee jones laugh begins now. [ laughter ] one comedy number becomes controversial where seth sings about actresses who apeered nude. kristen stewart we saw you. in monster we saw charlize theron the actresses are in on the joke having pretaped their reaction shots. they were playing along and of course that mattered.
i go in at about minus-10 with the press so, got to get myself to at least a level where they can tolerate me and then maybe from there i have a shot at actually getting a positive review. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, seth macfarlane. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. the curtain rises february 24th, 2013. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the oscars. and the quest to make tommy lee jones laugh begins now. [ laughter ] one comedy number becomes controversial where seth sings about actresses who have appeared nude in films. kristen stewart we saw you you boobs and in monster we saw charlize theron the actresses are in on the joke having pretaped their reaction shots. they were playing along and of course that mattered. some academy members brand the bit sexist, but macfarlane
maybe from there i have a shot at actually getting a positive review. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host, seth macfarlane. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. the curtain rises february 24th, 2013. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the oscars. and the quest to make tommy lee jones laugh begins now. [ laughter ] one comedy number becomes controversial where seth sings about actresses who aapeered nude. we saw you in monster we saw charlize theron the actresses are in on the joke having pretaped their reaction shots. they were playing along and of course that mattered. some academy members brand the bit sexist but macfarlane finds plenty of defenders. i don t think he is remotely sexist. i don t think what he did was sexist. with seth as host the oscars
nixon s office and even told newspaper columnist charles bartlett, a close friend, that he would vote for nixon for president if he, jack, didn t get the nomination. but jack kennedy was not one to let political fellowship affect his game. good evening. the television kennedy s team knew that the new medium of television was the way to persuade voters. his suntanned radiant image was worth a thousand words and hundreds of thousands of votes. to exploit his edge on the tube, they brought in bill wilson, a seasoned tv producer. in the first presidential debate, wilson made sure viewers saw lots of shots of the ashen-faced nixon, who had famously refused to wear make-up. i wanted more reaction shots. you ve got kennedy seven times, you need six more on nixon. and it was like night and day between before the debate and after the debate. the crowd was enormous.
they were ease ti to write.ston. the stories wrote themselves. they were ease ti to write. television council condemned it. there was an aeasy story line. i think there is a change from search to social. it was all over everyone s news feed. you couldn t ignore it. that s so interesting about buzz feeds coverage. this is diis designed to be sha. i went for a link to say here is what you missed while you were sleeping. you broke it down in a way that was very digestible. and we had a lot of fun with it, as well. we aren t miley haters. we re not chastising her. we love miley. and so we put it all out there for you to react yourself. you can say, oh, my god, that s so weird, but we re like this is miley, do your thing, girl. my two favorite items, number six, there were all these reaction shots. and we live it seems like in the era of the reaction shot. you noticed this at the show,