Why Should We Watch The Oscars If We Already Know Who’s Going To Win?

Hello – nobody watches the Oscars to see who wins. They watch to see who loses! And what they wore.

I’m personally getting a little sick of actors giving each other awards over and over and over again. Enough already! Do we have to see one more person who earns a huge and ridiculous salary for not and gets photographed in glossy mags and TV shows while real people with real problems who perform everyday miracles like our troops overseas, our police force on the street and our firefighters go awardless?

Well, the answer is probably yes — because everyone loves gossip and the Oscars is more about gossip and bad news than it is good news and winners these days. Who will the winners forget to thank in their Oscar speeches? Will the Best Actress lose her husband like so many who’ve won before her? (Hilary Swank, Reese Witherspoon)
Sadly, it’s our human nature that good news is boring news and bad news is what we want to see and hear.

While the Oscars, the Emmys, The Grammys, The Tonies, The BAFTA awards, the MTV awards, the VH1 awards, the People’s Choice awards and the Best and Worst Dressed Lists that notoriously accompany each and every one of these awards feed audiences all over, I’d love to tip my hat to the ordinary Joe who’s oversees fighting for our country, on our streets fighting crime and on the firehouses fighting fires and protecting the rest of us who don’t star in shows, but merely watch them.