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Amber:
Ahhhhhhh ... I only saw the end of the show when Jake did the award presentation, wouldn't have missed that part for anything :)  When he said that he'd let the beginning of the show go, I figured there was some kind of lame Brokeback parody or stupid jokes.  Thanks for the info, although I'm not entirely sure I'm glad to know it *lol*  Terrible joke writing.

starboardlight:
beside being annoyed at the joke, what disappoints me even more is that Lance is suppose to be the intelligent jock. He's suppose to be witty and charming, and he goes for the easy "fag" joke like the dumbest of locker room mules. Lost a lot of respect for him.

ednbarby:

--- Quote from: starboardlight on July 18, 2006, 03:11:38 pm ---beside being annoyed at the joke, what disappoints me even more is that Lance is suppose to be the intelligent jock. He's suppose to be witty and charming, and he goes for the easy "fag" joke like the dumbest of locker room mules. Lost a lot of respect for him.
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I agree.  I did, too.  Why even bring him (or Matthew McConaughey, for that matter) into the "monologue" at all?  The writers only did it to seize the opportunity to make a lame "fag" joke, like you said.  If Lance had any class at all, he'd have refused to do it - what are they gonna do - fire him?

Ideally, I'd have liked to see them mention the movie when Jake came out to present, you know like, "And now, one of the (as much as I hate to say it) Oscar-nominated stars of the recently critically-acclaimed movie 'Brokeback Mountain'," so that when people watching who had no prior experience with him saw what a doll he is in every way, they might go, "You know, I should rent that movie."  All Lance served to do by making that joke, along with encourage the anti-gay stigma, is to make homophobes even less likely to see it.  Nice going.

Brown Eyes:
Well, as mentioned elsewhere... the espy awards happened to be on TV in the pub on Sunday night when Katherine and I met up for the first time.  It was on mute so we clearly had the pleasure of missing the lame Brokeback jokes.   The jokes really do sound pretty awkward and bad.  And, it sounds like you're spot-on to attribute that kind of mean joking to lots of anxiety.  We must have seen the moment when Jake was laughing about one of the bad jokes because I think I remember seeing the kind of laugh you describe.  Seriously, it's a good thing that we didn't have to hear bad Brokeback jokes that night... with two die-hard Brokies there to witness it together there might have been a ruckus or something.
 ;)

So, since it was silent and we were blissfully unaware of the annoying banter... it just seemed like a remarkable coincidence that Jake appeared on TV (in whatever context) for our little get-together.
 :o

starboardlight:

--- Quote from: atz75 on July 18, 2006, 07:22:50 pm ---... Seriously, it's a good thing that we didn't have to hear bad Brokeback jokes that night... with two die-hard Brokies there to witness it together there might have been a ruckus or something.
 ;)
...
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I can see it, Amanda and Leslie starting a pub brawl.  ;D that'd be some story to share.

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