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Let John Mulaney Host Everything
The comedian crushed at the Governors Awards without sullying the celebrities’ “sacred rituals.”
And off Mulaney went in his monologue about the year in film and the night’s honorees, joking about everything from the title of Maestro(“Originally titled Bye, Felicia ”) to Brooks’s appearance (“Do you know the guy that did the prosthetic nose for Maestro?He did Mel’s entire face and body and personality for the last 97 years”) to the improbability of Bassett getting an Oscar nomination for a Marvel movie: “That’s like getting a Pulitzer Prize for a Reddit comment.” (Cut to a shot of Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., laughing in the crowd.) Then, in a move stolen from his hosting stint at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2017 alongside Nick Kroll, Mulaney ended his monologue by reading an oddball quote from a famous actor completely unrelated to the night’s proceedings. In this case, he read from an Al Pacino Playboy interview in which the actor talked about how he had taken so much Valium while attending the Oscars one year that he was thankful he didn’t win because he was doubtful he’d be able to make it to the stage.
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