I loved the Sound of Music joke. (one of my favorite movies. I started laughing as soon as I saw the spotlight on the door) But apparently it didn’t go over well in the audience. I also laughed at the Lincoln joke and the “needs no introduction.” I don’t like his shows, but there were some good jokes out there.
In all, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. There were problems with the Oscars that weren’t him (two tributes to a 10-year-old movie. A badly done Bond retrospective. Presenters not on their game. Sound and video problems for the tv audience. Letting the whole thing drag. Weird decisions about what to show and not show while listing the nominees) Some of MacFarlaine’s shtick went on too long and the timing was thrown. Some should have been cut for the sake of time. And some just wasn’t funny. But it wasn’t James Franco bad.
That was Andy Samberg. He KILLED it at the Film Independents on Saturday. Of course, it probably helped there was a Jameson’s Whiskey all you can drink at each table.
The joke is entirely dependent on a fluency with the plot of the film. The joke was a visual reference to a climactic scene in the story, so its humor is directly proportional to your familiarity with that moment.
Essentially, difficult to explain and not funny when you do. “You had to be there”
FWIW he was quoted in the Entertainment Weekly profile as saying “I don’t ever see myself singing professionally. It’s a fun side gig, and that’s all.”