Now we know the talked-about award show jokes were told this weekend by late night giant Jimmy Kimmel on the Oscars, (I WANT THAT JET SKI!) but the day before the Golden statues got handed out on ABC, the film world assembled for the Independent Spirit Awards where comedy titans John Mulaney and Nick Kroll truly roasted Hollywood. With the #MeToo movement following multiple sexual misconduct scandals and the fall out surrounding it, this was 11 minutes of pure slicing-deep funny. It satirized all of the cultural changes in movies and the film industry right now.
The two comics who team for the character duo Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland in their Netflix special, ‘Oh, Hello’. Go seek it out, it’s well worth it. They first perform the Gil and George sketches in Kroll’s Comedy Central series ‘Kroll Show’ and podcasts like Comedy Bang! Bang!. Mulaney and Koll also worked the characters out in a stage show in New York for years, and their chemistry is just electric.
The Spirit Awards also featured several outlandish and very funny sketches including this whacked-out bit where SNL alum Andy Samberg performed a tribute to “the stars we are about to lose” to big blockbuster series. Yes, he sang a spoof of ‘the Breakfast Club’ theme with lyrics digging into breaking stars who lose their way in superhero and young adult novel adaptions. Yes, he’s dressed like Judd Nelson.
And then there was ‘Bridesmaid’ star Kristen Wig who performed as the faux aging Hollywood starlet who seems to get trouted for the feel-good standing ovation every year during award season.
