And the award goes to...

The Oscar red carpet interview show that takes place before the actual awards ceremony is officially the dumbest thing on television.

Good god.

The insipid, vacuous fawning over celebrities great and small (mostly small...it seems like the BIG names don't allow themselves to indulge in such twaddle) was so dialed up that I wasn't even watching it but I had it on in the other room and I still think I could actually hear my own individual brain cells dying. I may actually now be too stupid to get up from this chair by myself and go to bed. Of course, I think I only saw three movies this past year, Borat, the new James Bond and the one where Will Farrell plays a stock car driver, so that may have already been the case.