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10:42 am - 01/20/2013

Jennifer Lawrence Trashes Her Oscar Rivals – for Laughs



How to get the jump on your sister Oscar nominees? Host Saturday Night Live – and come out punching.

That was Jennifer Lawrence's modus operandi this weekend, with the Silver Linings Playbook's Best Actress contender taking good-natured swipes at her competition during her silver-tongued opening monologue on the NBC comedy show.

About Jessica Chastain, she said: "In Zero Dark Thirty you caught Bin Laden. So what? In Winter's Bone I caught a squirrel, and then ate it."

Naomi Watts: You were in The Impossible. You know what else is impossible? You beating me on Oscar night."

Quvenzhané Wallis, the 9-year-old nominee for Beasts of the Southern Wild: "You think you can beat me? [In best Gary Coleman voice] 'What you talkin' 'bout, Wallis?' Also, the Alphabet called. It wants its letters back."

And Emmanuelle Riva, from the French film Amour: "An 85-year-old French lady. Um, yeah, I think I can take you."


Also in line for ribbing by the rest of the cast on the show, which featured The Lumineers as the musical guests, were disgraced athlete Lance Armstrong (played by Jason Sudeikis), reputed hoax victim Manti Te'o (Bobby Moynahan), outspoken Golden Globes honoree Jodie Foster (Kate McKinnon) and the scowling, Globes party-pooper Tommy Lee Jones (Bill Hader).

Though not personally at the end of a satirical sharp stick, Lawrence did tip her hat to her Hunger Games persona Katniss Everdeen by participating in a mock Post-Hunger Games press conference.

The running gag was how could Katniss go for Peeta (played by Taran Killam) because he's so short. The gamers were also asked if they used performance-enhancing drugs.

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treebraids 20th-Jan-2013 05:09 pm (UTC)
If that is the case they could have made the joke about Emmanuelle Riva. It was not racist, mostly ignorant. The sort of ignorance that makes white people come up with stories about the time when their "friend" who was a teacher in harlem met a girl called Le-a.
eyduh 20th-Jan-2013 05:11 pm (UTC)
but they didn't. because Emmanuelle is really old, and the joke writes itself out.

the nitpicking that goes on here is crazy sometimes

there is still a shitload of racism and ignorance in the media, but this moment wasn't one of them.

Edited at 2013-01-20 05:12 pm (UTC)
treebraids 20th-Jan-2013 05:20 pm (UTC)
Not necessarily, they could have still made fun of her name. It is not like funny name and being old joke can not exist in the same place.

I didn't say it was racist so I'm not sure why you are pointing that out. You are the one that insist on bringing racism into it then saying that it is not racist.
eyduh 20th-Jan-2013 05:22 pm (UTC)
yeah, i read your comment only once and then realized that you called it ignorant, sorry
lickety_split 20th-Jan-2013 05:44 pm (UTC)
The sort of ignorance that makes white people come up with stories about the time when their "friend" who was a teacher in harlem met a girl called Le-a.

Oh God I HATE that story and EVERY SINGLE white person I've heard repeat it, narrates the story to sound as though it's a personal experience even though we've all heard the fucking joke. It's ridiculous. /end-rant
highflyer8 20th-Jan-2013 07:03 pm (UTC)
Don't forget the twins, Orangejello and Lemonjello!
nothingcleva89 20th-Jan-2013 11:15 pm (UTC)
Ugh, I had a FB discussion where I was trying to explain the racist rhetoric behind such names. And people kept SWEARING to me they had a friend who went to camp with/mom's teacher friend taught/etc named "Le-a."

The Jello Twins too. So tired of that shit. SO...TIRED.
saikaro_x 20th-Jan-2013 06:39 pm (UTC)
The sort of ignorance that makes white people come up with stories about the time when their "friend" who was a teacher in harlem met a girl called Le-a

the myth that never dies
the_loveword 20th-Jan-2013 07:09 pm (UTC)
what is this story?
saikaro_x 20th-Jan-2013 07:10 pm (UTC)
just that someone always has a "story" of knowing someone who knew of a black lady who named her kid la-a (pronounced la-dash-a) or something. even tho i've heard variations of this stories multiple times, i've yet to meet anyone named la-a.
soapboxrhetoric 20th-Jan-2013 07:33 pm (UTC)
i saw a black comedian tell this joke in NYC...
saikaro_x 20th-Jan-2013 07:42 pm (UTC)
okay
katie_g_lynn 20th-Jan-2013 07:39 pm (UTC)
I have been googling this for a while, and I had no idea it was some sort of urban legend/myth. In fact I had never even heard of it except there was a student in my classroom with a similar name, and she said to pronounce the dash. LOL maybe she was just fucking with me. She wasn't technically my student, so I never followed up on it, but her teacher told me the same thing. I didn't really think much of it at the time.
saikaro_x 20th-Jan-2013 07:43 pm (UTC)
haha well i didn't mean it's an ~official urban legend~ or anything, it's just one of those BS stories that i've heard from time to time.
sprywonderdog 20th-Jan-2013 08:37 pm (UTC)
OH GOD! My cousin is a teacher. She is racist as all hell and it absolutely disgusts me that she teaches, especially since most of the children she teaches are black. I had actually heard the "Le-a" thing before, so I was really surprised when we were all together for Christmas and she started making fun of the children's names (seriously). She pulled out the old "Le-a" one. She said she had a student with that name. Everyone laughed. I said, "No, you don't." Everyone looked at me like I just admitted to killing someone. Then she just moved on to making fun of another kid.
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