Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes to Host Oscars

I won’t be watching.

It never goes well when they split host duties.

Love Wanda!

Regina Hall was only ever funny as "Brenda" in the Scary Movie franchise. She has no range otherwise. Amy Schumer was only funny when she was a dick-seeking single. Marriage and motherhood have made her into a truly fat slag who wines in sweatpants. Wanda Sykes hasn't been too funny since she went Lez and adopted kids. She's morphing into Paula Poundstone, only without the drunken molestation.

Here's a better trio: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph.

One thing you gotta give 2022... it's been a great year for hate watching.

Sykes & King? Fine. Schumer? I hope this broadcast fails even more than last year's.

Doesn’t Regina Hall have a dead child she should be mourning? Is this really a good idea for her at this time?

Some other broads who'd be good at this:

Melissa McCarthy (if paired with someone mellow)

Whitney Cummings (her writing always outshines her loud delivery)

Samantha Bee

Cecily Strong

Kate McKinnon

We can be Woke AND make a joke!

Wanda Sykes, Tina Fey, and Ricky Gervais?

What an unappealing trio.

So, Amy is the white luscious filling in the Oreo, is she still double stuff?

R9 Would never happen. Hollywood is fine to let the Golden Globes be smashed by a vulgarian who calls them on their shit. Nobody watches that ceremony.

But the Oscars are supposed to bring class, and/or make a statement about the industry that marginally more people will hear and see. There's a reason you'll see Lisa Kudrow or Aziz Ansari host the MTV Movie Awards, but not the Academy Awards.

Wanda would have been sufficient. And in a good way.

I like Regina and Wanda, so I'll just mute Amy whenever she opens her maw.

Wanda is the only worthy one. Who actually likes Amy Schumer?

Amy Schumer.

Bitches please....most of you will be reading and commenting on the annual Oscars thread, real time.

No glamour, no mystique

OP? You’re so boring and predictable.

I knew Regina would get it. She was basically auditioning for the roll during the opening last year.

Love them!

R17 We will be hate-watching.

I want to see something as grotesque and pathetic as last year's veteran Glenn Close jigging around like a Hottentot.

I don't know that I care enough this year to watch.

Wanda alone would really be the better option. Tina Fey and Amy Pohler are a good team, but they’ve worked together for years. You can’t get that same chemistry by throwing together three random women simply because they are all comedians.

“She was basically auditioning for the roll during the opening last year.” Role ROLE!

What the fuck is that white woman doing there?

[quote] I knew Regina would get it. She was basically auditioning for the roll during the opening last year.

Is she doing an Esther Rolle biopic?

No Laverne Cox?

Has Laverne even been in a movie movie?

I don't get having three woman to do it. I know women having gotten the short end of the stick in the past but, it's going from one extreme to another. How about two woman and one (gay) guy?

I guess Beanie is to busy on Broadway to participate? It would have been nice to have the sister act together again.

I would rather mastu rbate with one of these things before I'd willingly watch that

What about me? It's not like you don't know where I am! IT'S.LITERAL.VIOLENCE! - L. Van Houten

[quote] I don't get having three woman to do it.

Girls get it done!

Amy Schumer is still a thing?

Regina and Wanda don’t need help. And whoever said Regina doesn’t have range…sounds like an idiot.

[quote] Has Laverne even been in a movie movie?

He was in Promising Young Woman.

They should replace Amy with Leslie Jordan.

Dear dingbats…Regina Hall and Regina King are two different women!!

🙀

I only know Regina King from scary movie. Is she even a comedian ? She has never really been on my radar.

[quote] "Sykes & King? Fine."

Oh, dear. I got the wrong Regina.

I liked Hall in the "Scary Movie" franchise (she was thr best part), & in "Malibu's Most Wanted".

Regina Hall is a talented actress who has done comedy and drama. But we know that white gays rarely watch things with black people in it.

That’s the real gag!

I always thought Regina meant virgin, but it mean queen.

Why did they ask Eugene Levy and his son?

Amy? She’s so ugly and stupid. They couldn’t book any actual movie stars?

Amy will host the first hour, which means the audience will have vanished by the time the other two get on stage.

Allegedly Amy Schumer steals jokes. Allegedly.

This sounds like the ninth circle of hell.

How low can they get with AS

Are all three choices acceptable with Jada?

I like Regina Hell. So I guess I 33.3% agree with this decision.

R15, Cousin Chuck.

R7, That was Regina King.

Whoopi and Mel Gibson should co-host.

I could do without Amy the Cow.

Stop televising this shitshow already.

Truly these will be the Oscars we deserve.

[quote] Regina Hall is a talented actress who has done comedy and drama. But we know that white gays rarely watch things with black people in it.

Gee, I wonder why.

I LOVE the suggestion of Whoopi and Mel Gibson!!!!!!

Sounds like the only people that would accept the gig. Amy Schumer is promoting her new Hulu show which looks like shit.

And what do any of them have to do with movies? Besides submitting to Jada’s blacks must be represented more than Asians or Latins rule, they make no sense as presenters.

Replace Amy Schumer with Jennifer Coolidge and then it'd be good enough.

I dunno.

Regina Hall is a well rounded talent and Wanda Sykes is funny as heck to me. They are both also naturally pretty ladies. Amy Schumer is just pointless and she's not really all that funny or anything. I don't get it.

44% weren't going to watch it but they'll be bitching about it here throughout the show.

Wanda Sykes seems to wear a permanent sneer.

They couldn't find a third black woman?

I was available, R65

So much kowtowing for such a minority. Everything must be black - the only minority that matters.

Jada had some nerve announcing a boycott of the Oscars ceremony, and holding court like some kind of racial arbiter.

Bitch, you're not even a voting Academy member. And your husband is only a member because of old nominations. He's never won. You have less right to be in that audience than Hayley Mills and Buzz Lightyear.

WHET Billy Porter? Guaranteed ratings killer.

R69 A man in a dress, whose every word is insufferably self-serving and pointless?

Amy Schumer has that covered.

Billy will be singing every nominated song.

R68 is just a racist Trump voter, looking to lash out at a black woman

R49 sounds like a racist misogynist. There is nothing wrong with these women and one is openly gay.

Fuck you, Klan Grannies

I still have no idea what transportation center this year’s awards are taking place in???

interesting--I wonder if they seriously went to Tom Holland? Could they not make a deal?

OP- I don't know anything about her but Amy Schumer is SO average looking- I mean someone who's tastes and everything about her just look so AVERAGE.

R68 , Hayley actually is an Oscar winner.

Hey, Hayley MIlls has a special Oscar for a film she starred in. She looked great in a show I saw her in a few years ago in NY. Plus she had her autobiography out recently. You know how many girls are named Hayley because of Ms. Mills? Don't diss Hayley.

Yeah yeah yeah!

These three ladies have the cred to host. Regina has an Oscar. Wanda has an Emmy. And Amy has an MTV Movie Award.

Regina KING has an Oscar, R80. Not Regina Hall.

King, Hall, what’s the diff?

[quote] But the Oscars are supposed to bring class, and/or make a statement about the industry that marginally more people will hear and see.

This calls for a SURE JAN if I ever saw one.

Can't tell them apart, R82?

It seems like they went to men first who all turned it down. Why these three is anyone’s guess.

I like Wanda, but even she can't entice me to ever watch an awards show.

I must be a jerk because I like Amy, in addition to Wanda. Regina, I have no impression of her at all.

I'm terrified that a 59 year-old drifter will find his way into my Oscar party and open fire.

Regina King stole scenes as Brenda in Scary Movie but has proved herself capable of more (maybe like the Jennifer Coolidge trajectory). In 2019 she won best actress from New York Film Critics Circle for “Support the Girls”. It was a role where she gave us everything and proved herself the most capable and humane of actresses.

R90 Regina HALL, lol

The years the Oscars went without a host were fine.

When Wanda played the TD Garden in Boston a few years ago, she was booed off the stage and her show ended abruptly after she went on an anti-Trump rant.

Seems like they are throwing spaghetti against the wall. Awkward.

Regina is child actress best known for playing Brenda in Scary Movie and 227.

No one cares about this crapfest anymore. It’s outdated garbage.

Ohhhh, Hall is the woman that was on that terrible 9 Perfect Strangers being seduced by Nicole Kidman, she was terrible in that. Is she hosting because it’s a forgone conclusion that Nicole is winning?

My thoughts exactly, r6. Amy Schumer is fine with self-involved sketch comedy but she's no host. She'll probably act like the default head host with the other two as co-hosts, she seems the type to decide that she's the most famous and therefore the real star.

Oh Amy will definitely want to be Diana, but Wanda will smack her down!

Who's that fat lady singing?

R96 She was terrible in that wasn’t she? I couldn’t even watch a whole episode. Why don’t they just shirk the rules and let Nicole be nominated best actress for that shit instead of the even worse TV movie Ricky and Lucy. My god. Is this the year we’re supposed to be excited for the Oscars? The front runner is a TV movie?

So we can guarantee the opening will all be about race, the Oscars want to die

The Oscars are now Showtime at the Apollo with TV movie nominees.

The trailer for Schumer's new show on Hulu looks like a dreadful retread of her life since becoming famous: sad bloated woman becomes even more self-involved and insufferable when she meets a sensitive non-celebrity who works with his hands and for some unknown reason finds her attractive. It's also quite close to the premise of Bridget Everett's current show on HBO.

[quote] It seems like they went to men first who all turned it down. Why these three is anyone’s guess.

Oscar host criteria:

1. Must be black

2. Must be female

3. Have to have a white token in there

4. Must be black

5. Can't piss off Jada

6. Semi-amusing

7. Must be black

R77 R78 Yes, I know Hayley Mills won a special Oscar. It's a noncompetitive award, but it's still a statuette that Jada doesn't have. That's why I said Jada has *less right* to be there than Hayley Mills. One is a real Oscar winner, and the other is just a whiny seat-filler.

Do you understand it now, or are you still too drunk to read?

Didn’t Amy have her lady parts removed to much personal promotion? She should be thin and svelte for the ceremony.

Amy had an amusing story about Kim and Kanye.

[quote]Regina Hall was only ever funny as "Brenda" in the Scary Movie franchise. She has no range otherwise.

She was hysterical in Showtime's three-season Black Monday series.

USA Today:

This awards broadcast will be produced by "Girls Trip" producer Will Packer.

“This year’s show is all about uniting movie lovers. It’s apropos that we’ve lined up three of the most dynamic, hilarious women with very different comedic styles,” Packer said in a statement. “I know the fun Regina, Amy and Wanda will be having will translate to our audience as well. Many surprises in store! Expect the unexpected!”

Variety broke the news Monday, saying the women were "finalizing details" to host. Each woman will lead the telecast for one of the show's hours, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"Mad Men" star Jon Hamm had been in discussions with Packer as a possible fourth host, until talks fell through this weekend, Variety and The New York Times reported.

The show is hoping to rebound from the dismal viewership of last year’s broadcast, which was both an all-time low and the norm for pandemic-era awards shows. In addition to bringing back starry hosts and bumping the best picture nominees to a full field of 10, the Academy is also hoping to spike interest through social media voting for a "fan favorite" movie that will be announced during the show, as well as a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles for the ceremony.

Why is it being produced by some travel agency guy?

Why didn't they pair up Ricky Gervais and Seth MacFarlane to do the hosting?

More reasons for people not to watch

If they were really interested in getting people to watch, they would have nominated " Spiderman" instead of that flop WSS. But, a plethora of films no one has seen nor care about will result in low ratings again.

OK, so Regina Hall got the gig because one of the producers of the Oscars also did Hall’s film Girls Trip. And Schumer got the gig because she has an upcoming series on Hulu which happens to be an ABC/Disney adjunct. As for Wanda Sykes she’s a black lesbian so that ticks a few boxes. At least she can be funny. I predict the other two will be a disaster. And ratings will hit a new low. They’ll never learn.

This year's Oscar drinking game: Take a shot whenever one of the hosts makes a joke about men or white people.

[quote]If they were really interested in getting people to watch, they would have nominated " Spiderman" instead of that flop WSS.

They're determined to get Spider-Man into the broadcast one way or another:

I was also asked to host, but had to turn it down as it conflicted with a Netflix project my husband I are working on.

Would I lie to you???

Young people are not going to watch the Oscars just to see Spiderman win a fake award. It is evident that even more than last year, this will be the BET Oscars, which means even more people will not watch.

The Oscars are why God invented fast forwarding.

Newsflash. You don't have to watch the Oscars, Bill Maher, or Saturday Night Live. Nobody puts guns to your heads.

Nominate Spiderman:

Ratings for the Oscar broadcast have been in a fairly steady decline over the last 35 years, but spikes have occurred when a blockbuster film was nominated: In 1998, when Titanic was nominated, the telecast rating jumped to 34.9, the highest since 1983, when E.T. was nominated in 1983. That broadcast got a 38 rating, the best in our sample.* The Best Picture nominees were seen by an estimated 22 million people that year. The following year, only 6 million saw the Oscar nominees, and the rating plunged to 30.3.

No glamour No mystique

The Oscars need more moments like this one at the Golden Globes.

...or this.

Three hosts are really two too many. You could arguably go with two if they had great chemistry.

Give me Amber Ruffin or give me death!

One host will suffice, but none of these three losers.

[quote] This year's Oscar drinking game: Take a shot whenever one of the hosts makes a joke about men or white people

So you are advocating DLers die of alcohol poisoning?

Damn. I dodged a bullet.

R126 Billy Crystal looks like shit since he got a bad facelift. And he was never really that funny to anyone under 50. He's got that Paul Reiser/Jay Leno style of humor.

Where has the Academy gotten this idea that people don’t want the Oscars to have one host? They have seemed determined to avoid it for the past few years.

You know why the white girl is there don’t you, so when things go bad they can blame it on her.

I’m surprised they didn’t choose a black host, a white host, an Asian host, a transgender host, and a Muslim host.

Where have you been, R132? Don't you know that in the US right now the term " diversity" only refers to black. If you are of any other minority, you just don't count. How many jobs dealing with " Diversity and Inclusion" are headed by a non-black? How much Hispanic representation do you see in the media, despite the fact that it has the largest minority population in the country? So, just as every performer at the Super Bowl was black and just about every tv commercial has black representation, so too do the "award shows" need to conform.

Forgive me for venting at 133. Of course, Eminem was at the Super Bowl and Amy Schumer is the white woman at the Oscars. But, as a member of a minority group that has largely been ignored in the media, where is the " diversity" in just black and white? Why are the SJWs not advocating for equal representation?

I've never even heard of Regina Hall. What's her claim to fame?

Wanda Sykes is funny.

Amy S. grosses me out. I don't even like to look at her.

A LOT of people will tune in thinking Amy Poehler is hosting when she isn’t.

A LOT of people will tune in thinking Regina Hill is hosting when she isn’t.

Regina Hall is SO good in Black Friday. But can she host?

Why not just have Wanda do it??

Because Wanda is too charm-free for a mainstream gig like this.

Yes, Wanda is charmless.

Where's Bob Hope when we need him?

R124, The streaker came to a bad end.

"Robert Opel was murdered on the night of July 7, 1979, during an attempted robbery of his San Francisco studio by Robert E. Kelly and Maurice Keenan. He was 39. Kelly and Keenan are both serving life sentences for his murder."

[135] What rock have you been hiding under? Regina Hall has been acting for 25 years.

Try something different this year. Have Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld host.

Was Ricky Gervais even considered?

SO it's Proud Crazy Woman With Attitude*, Fat Missy Piggy Porkbottom and Sassy Sykes.

Glad I'm not watching. But at least I can see a recording and just silence everyone but Wanda. Including the "winners."

*In 2010, when she was 40, Hall unsuccessfully tried to become a Catholic nun after a bad break-up, having previously wanted to become one at the age of 14. In the latter case, she was refused for being too old, as the cut-off age is 39

Amy Schumer's shtick has certainly run thin. She has certainly drained that well—did we all see the trailer for her new Hulu series, which is basically a remake of "Trainwreck" but with Michael Cera and a bit of drama? Honestly, though, I don't have strong feelings about her, positive or negative. Some of her early stuff was quite funny, especially a number of the sketches on "Inside Amy Schumer," but at that time she was working with a bunch of other writers/comics and had yet to be so overexposed to the public.

Wanda and Regina Hall are both fine—I've always thought Regina was hilarious, and I enjoyed her recent kooky/insane performance on "Nine Perfect Strangers."

Oh dear.

R134, Amy is Jewish not white. Her Jewishness is why she was championed in the comedy industry despite being a no talent.

r143 in what?

Regina Hall's credits. Hardly a well known actress. Did they think they were getting Regina King and just called the wrong number?

So Regina King’s name literally means Queen King?

I think they should've just gone with Wanda. Or go with Miley Cyrus. She did a good job at the VMAs

[quote] You know why the white girl is there don’t you

Other than race (yes black) 'diversity' and lgbTQIA+ (including they/them) 'diversity', this white girls fits another 'diversity' that SJWs so love...: FAT positivity.

“Hardly a well known actress” is code for “I only watch mediocre white films and white actresses.”

The ratings for this year's Oscar ceremony will be as low as the ratings for the Winter Olympics.

" Hardly a well known actress" is code for " She hasn't been in any films of importance to warrant a position as Oscar host. Nor have the other two . It's obvious that anyone with talent has steered far away, so we had to settle for nobodies, has-beens, and never-weres."

They should have NpH host and bring in the writers who did the 2013 Tonys.

Neil Patrick Harris did host and alienated the Academy with his demands such as including magic tricks into the show. The Academy is done with him.

R159, magic can work if executed properly. I loved whern he disappeared into the box and then emerges at the other side of the studio seconds later. At 4:50 in the clip.

Nobody can host an awards show like NPH but the writing sucked when did the Oscars.

This opening is so good it goes viral on reddit once a year.

R159, I demanded a few "magic tricks" the year I hosted the Oscars.

I think it’s similar to radio acting shows being popular and then dying out with new technology. They don’t realize that their “big show” is now a joke. We need to see gay porn and forget, not watch a formal 3 hour awards show.

Oscars never adapted to DVR's.

I just start late and fast forward. I watch the acting and a few other big awards and speed thru the rest (ESPECIALLY the lame host jokes.)

I always get Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish confused. Neither are much good but Regina was at least decent in Nine Perfect Strangers.

They should have gotten Gaga to host to make up for failing to nominate her. Her stans would tune in then.

R154 Agreed, it's clear that the only white person on the list had to fit some criteria and being fat...I mean body positive....worked.

the expression on Schumer's face in the OPs pic says it all

Will Wanda be speaking English?

R155 Regina is a good actress but has rarely had parts in quality projects.

Since black people should be nominated for anything now why not nominate the out gays for any old thing too? They didn’t get any good parts either! Who could be nominated this year? Doogie for the Matrix? Put him IN!

Will Chuck Schumer be there to support his cousin Amy?

He was at the Tony Awards.

The Oscars are like the Democrats. They know they are dying. They know they need to stop catering to the woke crowd but they can't help themselves and as a result they will fade away.

I might be in the tiny minority, but I never found Wanda Sykes the least bit amusing.

I like Wanda in small doses. She is not host material.

R174, Wanda used to be funnier.