Award ceremonies - Classic or Dud?

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Encompassing all areas of awards; Brits, Grammys, MTV Awards, Brats, Mercury Music Prize, Ivor Novello, Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, MOBO, etc, etc. Don't know if this has already been covered, but thought it might be interesting if not. I'm of the opinion that they all mean practically jack-shit and the only reason the *stars* turn up is for the free bubbly and charlie. Perhaps a touch cynical on my part but apologise I shall not.

― Add, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glorious, effluvient dud. The lot of them. Entertainment industries coping a feel of themselves in the view of the entire free world. It'd be worth recognizing achievements if they actually recognized WORTHY achievements. Especially those Grammy dolts. Pull up your pants and hire an escort, you lecherous bastards. And get drunk on your own time.

Oh, but I'm being Obvious again.

I'm all for these stars shattering convention and shocking the hell out of people, though. And THROUGH WORDS - if I wanted to see your bare ass & tits, I'd go on the farkin' Internet. Billy Bob & Angelina are King & Queen. May they revel in pre-show post-coital bliss forever.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worthless dud. They are merely a means of boosting the flagging sales of product already extant in the shops.

Lifetime Achievement Awards = Well Done On Not Having Died Yet

― Venga, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Complete dud. Meaningless wastes of time.

― alex in nyc, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is anyone going to stick up for them? I find them incredibly tedious, too. I only watch the Oscars for the dresses.

― Nick, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love awards shows. I love anything that gives performers the opportunity to be extraoridnarily tacky (see every public appearance of Mecha-Christina over the past year).

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course they're fucking classic. I mean, it gives you 800 things to bitch about, you get to see ridiculous outfits, bad performances, sometimes good performances, occasionally something really class like "Soy Bomb" - what the hell is there NOT to love about them?????!?!?!?!

― Ally, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vanessa Mae involved: classic.
Not: dud.

― mark s, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic!

if only for the primest examples of throw-rubber-brick-at-TV-screen moments. The American award shows are too much robotically glossy, smiley, wavey. Which is ACE! There's an unreal sheen to everything that I find strangely transfixing.

The British events still have - though less and less it seems - the chance to go horribly (read: hilariously) wrong (read: right). I'm thinking of the KLF appearing with Extreme Noise Terror, Bill Drummond 'machine-gunning' the crowd with his cruthes and announcing "The KLF have left the music industry" then leaving a dead sheep(?) behind. I'm thinking Jarvis V's the King of Pop. I'm even thinking of that posho baldy in Chumbawumba giving Two-Jags/Jabs a soaking.

Sadly nowt happened at the Brits this year except for Noely G saying "piss" and Bono leaving the stage (gasp! RoknRollll!), walking past the pleb-pen and into the media-limpit enclosure with all the braying """music industry""" types clapping along and caused a - uninteresting - commotion.

Can't think of anything untoward happening at the Sma sHits Poll Winners party 'cept for Ding-bat (or whatever) from Carter USM giving Phillip Scholfield a flying tackle.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm with Dan and Ally, I love them for the sheer tackiness and trashiness, the bad outfits and the insipid speeches.

AND the Rob Lowe and Snow White duet at the Oscars many moons ago is one of the most entertaining television moments ever.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a soft spot for the Tonys. That whole world just seems so archaic and weird. Who cares about the Great White Way these days, anyway?

And the competition is not exactly stiff--how many plays and musicals are there on Broadway each year, anyway? And who goes to see them?

And the acceptance speeches are so corny, so gushy. I guess it's the style of theater actors. They're about 20 times as hammy as their film counterparts. And most of the time you have no idea who they are. And if you do, they're loathsome, like Nathan Lane.

So it's pretty watchable, even if I'll never see any of the plays/musicals nominated.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course that Rob Lowe/Snow White thing was the greatest -- it came from the mind of Allan Carr. Producer of _Grease_! And _Can't Stop the Music_! A prophet for our times!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe there is some worth in the old backslapping parade after all, I've just had a vision of Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood presenting the Brits all those years ago. Hilariously mismatched in size from the outset, not being able to read the autocue hardly helped, and their complete lack of chemistry, charm and charisma made it a joy to behold. Thanks for that, I needed a good laugh.

― Add, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, Ned. Allan Carr! He was my non-rock 'n' roll idol as a teen. Which is kind of odd, I guess. Why would I aspire to be an overweight man in a caftan who had his jaw wired shut to lose weight? But what a showman! I remember I had some weird obsession with Sue Mengers back then, too. I blame After Dark magazine.

― Arthur, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mostly dud, for all the reasons others herein have stated so well.

But there have been some great moments from award shows -- (1) the KLF's appearance with Extreme Noise Terror; (2) Jarvis Cocker giving Michael Jackson his comeuppance; (3) a drunken Slash cussing like a sailor on primetime national TV; (4) Ol' Dirty Bastard's antics about Wu-Tang not being awarded; (5) Howard Stern as Fartman at the MTV awards (and Cindy Crawford's, Sammy Hagar's and Lars Ulrich's indignation at same).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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