Seth MacFarlane Is the Worst Oscar Host Ever, Says the Internet (VIDEO)
Uh oh! It looks like most people on the Internet are in agreement that Seth MacFarlane is the worst Oscar host ever.
It was hard to find anything nice being said about the Family Guy creator, so we compiled some choice words the Interweb offered about MacFarlane’s performance at last night’s Academy Awards.
“If only he’d kept his mouth shut more frequently,” laments The Atlantic’s Spencer Kornhaber.
Pan to Seth singing this song about boobs:
Granted, the video was prefaced with a one-on-one chat with William Shatner who was reprimanding MacFarlane for his “offensive” boob song, which hadn’t happened yet since they were in the present talking about the future. Am I the only one confused?
Now, no one likes jokes about pedophiles, right? Well, MacFarlane went there. He joked about George Clooney’s penchant for dating younger women, and jested that nine-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis was just 16 years too young for the ladies’ man George Clooney.
“Yes, it was a joke, but: She is 9 years old. NINE!” said BuzzFeed writer Hillary Reinsberg.
The 85th Academy Awards was dubbed the “Juvenile Oscars” by The Daily Beast, who thought the target audience wasn’t actually for dudes (as ABC had advertised), but 12-year-old boys.
“The event, honoring the best in cinema for 2012, was a disaster, with host Seth MacFarlane,” said Marlow Stern from The Daily Beast.
Ouch.
How could he go so wrong with jokes about rape, race, gender, Nazis and the Lincoln assassination? Oh, and this jewel about domestic violence: “Django is a movie where a woman is subjected to violence, or as we call it, a Chris Brown and Rihanna date movie.”
Let’s cut to commercial break and never return (like most viewers wished they had done).
McFarlane’s gems didn’t sit well with the Huffington Post, who warned that using any of the host’s lines will get you no dates and probably a few slaps to the face.
McFarlane’s performance could get him the Academy Award for Worst Host Ever, if the Academy Awards honored smarminess and misogyny.
If MacFarlane was looking for attention, he got it. But kudos? He doesn’t get any of that.



