Perhaps the worst from the list – Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway giving the Oscar to the wrong film.
Apparently Warren was handed the Best Actress envelope, saw the name of “La La Land,” and handed it to Faye, who read it aloud. The poor schmucks from La La Land were already making their acceptance speeches when the error was reported.
I took particular joy in the Steve Harvey blunder. He’s somebody that I’ve never seen any talent in at all. He’s completely unfunny, bland, and untalented. His big shtick is to pretend to look gobsmacked when someone gives an unusual answer on Feud. It doesn’t register to him that it might get old after so many years, or that it was never amusing in the first place. He also calls people “playa” and I guess thinks that’s knee-slappingly hilarious.
So when he fucked up the Miss Universe show and was roundly mocked throughout the universe, I saw that as some deserved karma for being a talentless idiot, and also for the show’s organizers who chose to hire a fuckhead like that. It’s akin to hiring Frank Stallone or Pauly Shore for the gig. What else could you expect but disaster? Similar thing happened when Ellen hosted the Oscars. To me, that was the worst show in history, even worse than Letterman and his notorious “Uma, Oprah; Oprah, Uma” show.
I’ve never really looked into him a lot, and he’s seemed to schmooze his way into the celebrity world and doing game shows. Apparently he was an asshole and joke stealer during his King of Comedy days and a backstabber too. Never read the full story behind what he did though, just read various comments and commentary about him having that type of personality.
Ashley Simpson’s flub was deserved karma too. In its long history, SNL has had very few performances go awry. Lots of crappy music, yes, but they finish their performances. I was watching that night, and this chick comes out to do her shitty song, but some prerecorded song plays with her voice singing it, and she just stands there mortified. Then jumps around momentarily and walks off. When I saw that, I thought, music has hit rock bottom. The world thought the same thing.
What made it so much worse is that she dumped all the blame on her drummer, and claimed her voice was fine that *day*, but went kaput that *night*. Nobody bought that shit, and put her out of business for good because we didn’t need another Milli Vanilli. At least those guys could dance. Ashley couldn’t even do anything. When she was exposed as a fraud, she had nothing to fall back on and evaporated. Not even a tour to go around blaming others and saying “They kicked me out of Hollywood” as Ellen did. She just disappeared. Good riddance.
How can the list not include Lara Trump singing ….anything anywhere?