I am looking forward to tonight’s Oscar broadcast for three reasons.
1. Neil Patrick Harris.
2. This awards season desperately needs a surprise winner. In any category.
Please, Academy, be the organization that flabbergasts me with a shocking turn of events, shaking me out of this year’s numbing sameness.
3. Much like the Super Bowl, the Oscars commercials are increasingly becoming an event unto themselves. I am particularly excited to see a new ad by Stonyfield Yogurt, where woman actually admit to not liking Greek yogurt.
I knew I wasn’t the only one out there.
Here’s a sneak peek:
Honesty and innuendo? Sign me up!
The Sticky Egg 
Could have done without Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear.
It was a funny ‘Birdman’ callout…and one of the few funny things (besides the opening) the entire night. Gotta have writers, even with NPH. They seemed to have forgotten that.