So the Oscars were pretty boring and unmemorable this year. Except for one part, which everyone will forget by next year anyways.

See those people above? Recognize them? Of course not. They’re nobodies. But that didn’t stop them from getting into a tryst about who was a bigger (or smaller?) nobody than the other one.

When the Academy presented the award for best short subject documentary to Music By Prudence, this happened:

I didn’t even notice it was weird at first because I stand by a prejudice that people who make short subject documentaries in Zimbabwe gotta be kinda weird. But as you can see, this Joy Behar clone totally Kanye’d (I really hate myself for using that word but there seems to be no other description) the black dude. They apparently had creative differences over the film and Behar left the project. The black dude was the director and had all the rights to the movie, but the two of them raced to the podium once the award was announced. Black dude got their first, but Behar totally jumped in and said something stupid like “Always like a man to speak first.”

Another site interviewed them both right after the incident, but another thing kind of sticks out for me.

Music By Prudence is about a Zimbabwan woman thats basically a quadriplegic , and judging by the title also makes music. It’s supposed to be a very uplifting film about… I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “overcoming adversity.”

They flew Prudence to the ceremony, and while all this is going on, she is just sitting in the balcony awkwardly smiling:

She wasn’t applauding the proceedings, but then again, she can’t. The image above reminds me of something…

I can’t quite put my finger on it….Oh wait…. could it be…. just maybe….

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