I don’t know why.” He corrected himself: “I mean, I know why: it’s terrible.” In October, Henderson, who is 37 and is 4-foot-2, was picked up and thrown by an unknown assailant in Somerset, England. “I read about him online the day before the Globes. Google him.”Ī month later, during breakfast at the Trump SoHo hotel in Manhattan, Dinklage still seemed a bit uncomfortable with the attention his off-the-cuff comment received.
“I want to mention a gentleman I’ve been thinking about, in England,” he said quickly. It isn’t right.” He hesitated a moment, then thought, I’m just gonna do it. As the wrap-it-up music began to swell, Dinklage thought about what his wife had been telling him all night at their table: “Let people know. Martin, who wrote the novels on which “Game of Thrones” is based his mother in New Jersey the cast and crew. As he took the statue from the presenter, Piper Perabo, the onstage microphone stand quietly lowered into the floor to accommodate the 4-foot-5 actor.ĭinklage thanked the people he needed to thank - the author George R.
Dinklage had won the award for best supporting actor in a TV series for his portrayal of the complex, sharp-tongued Tyrion Lannister, who’s the closest thing to a hero in HBO’s epic swords-and-sex hit “ Game of Thrones,” which returns for its second season on April 1. We’re essentially in a hellish frat house-one that really hates women but also pretends to be joking about it.In January, the actor Peter Dinklage surprised himself during his own Golden Globe acceptance speech. "Hey lolly lolly lolly, hey lolly lolly ho," the old man sings, instructing the crowd to join him in a song that means nothing and says nothing, signifying only drunkenness.
To break-up the onslaught of "ironic" sexist jokes, Kimmel and Carolla turn to an old man on a piano perched atop the bleachers. Still, she writes, "The threshold for what is too much is different for each viewer, and thus multiple, contradictory readings are possible, a fact that likely contributed to the good ratings for the program." In its myopic view of what men want, The Man Show demonstrates "a sexism so extreme that it demonstrates the flaws of such a position," writes feminist academic Ann Johnson. This epic opening is followed by aggressive agitprop against women of all kind, including Oprah ("she needs to do a little less brainwashing and a little more sock washing") and Ally McBeal ("more like Ally McBullshit!") as well as proclamations about what men actually want to see on TV ("girls jumping on trampolines, monkeys, and midgets"). A dam to urinate off of when we’re really drunk. After speechifying about the brave efforts of dam workers ( all male apparently), Kimmel and Carolla proudly proclaim, "just as these heroic men did 60 years ago, we are building a dam: a dam to hold back the title wave of feminization that is taking over this country a dam to stop the estrogen that is drowning us in political correctness. The Man Show’s premiere begins, dramatically, atop the Hoover Dam. In honor of this year's Oscars, which will be hosted by the ratings-loving Kimmel, I’ve distilled some of The Man Show’s past shitstorms-at least the parts I could stomach-here. In his response, Kimmel reveals himself as someone who probably doesn’t care either way: "It would absolutely result in a shitstorm, and there’s absolutely nothing better for ratings than a shitstorm." On this point, Marchese doesn’t push Kimmel further and only pathetically offers: "I don’t think people would be particularly kind to that show’s idea of humor." He doesn’t ask whether a revival of The Man Show’s attempt at satire that punches down-a failed attempt at that, since half of its audience didn’t understand it-would do more harm than good. I just think, Oh, we could’ve done that better….e did a lot of funny stuff. But yes, of course, and not necessarily for the reasons you think. My vision of hell is a bunch of monitors with my old shows running on them. When New York Magazine’s David Marchese asked the comedian whether looking back at The Man Show makes him cringe, Kimmel replied, "I look back at every show I’ve ever done and cringe.