“You will take a joke from him”

How the showman stays

The Oscars. It is more interesting to insure your chin. Forget “Gone with the Wind”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and other favorites such as Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid in the 1942s “Casablanca”.

All winners such as “Anora”, “Wicked”, “Conclave”, “The Brutalist” and the completely unknown “are now a complete unknown”.

Bruce Vilanch, a long -time writer of the show who probably started in Charlie Chaplin’s bar Mitzvah, says: “People Tire about these award shows. How often can you see Meryl Streep run down the aisle? “

“I have files. Joan Rivers used to have files. Our writer is divided. During the show we are left in a small housing stage. There are food and monitors. The food is important. Writers must be fed.

“Once Michael Moore Has anti-bush Material. The audience boasted him. Host Steve Martin quickly needed something. We gave him: “The stage workers help Michael Moore in the trunk of his car.”

How about the host this year, Conan O’Brien?

“It’s a difficult job. If you are famous enough and rich enough, you don’t have to align the Oscars. You can reach your own way. But that could bring him back to a position in which he hasn’t been for a while. See you will take a joke from him because you know that he doesn’t mean that helps. He has his writers. You will take a joke from Conan. Everyone knows that he is not Ricky Gervais.

“He has to tackle the forest fires in LA. And there is no big deal like “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer” this year. Your good jokes start at the beginning. While the evening runs and fills out with losers, the audience doesn’t care what happens. You are already writing an SMS to your agents and therapists.

“And because there are so many young people now, we can reuse old people like Bob Hope’s Oldie: ‘Welcome to the Oscar loan – or as it is known in my house – Passah.’ “”

When do you start writing?

“I can’t get out until nominations come out. You don’t want to write 13 jokes for something that cannot. As soon as we thought Jim Carrey would be nominated. We wrote a whole routine. He was not nominated, so you are stuck in it. “

Vilanch, who wrote for 25ish Academy Awards and The Tony, “The Lily Tomlin Show”, “The Brady Bunch Hour” and appeared on “Hollywood Squares”, “Rupaul’s drag race”, and probably sent a few lines for Queen Isabella before she found Columbus to find our new migrant city. Pub date is next week, March 4th.

Sad note

Now a memory. The Grammy winner Roberta Flack, which we all knew ballads for their humids, who once led the charts, left us this week. Lived in the Dakota next to John and Yoko. Unknown to the world, her somewhat unfortunate habit was. She played with money manager George Venizelos Darts.

Backstage at an Oscar event. Two actors. One: “I haven’t seen you or Marvin Years, “said the other:” Oh, then you didn’t get him married? “Said the other:” Yes, I did that. “