Why Are Red Carpet Hosts Such Idiots?

I love movie stars like Sharon Stone.

Last night I was watching the E! Red Carpet with Ryan Seacrest followed by the Golden Globe Awards and then, finally, the post-show interviews. Sheer bliss. Award shows are my guilty pleasure. I love to watch the stars in their gorgeous clothes and jewels. I love to watch the actors win awards and I love to try to guess the winners in all the categories. I am a big movie fan so, for me, the award shows are the big finale to a great year of movie watching. The only bummer is that almost without exception the hosts of the award pre- and post-shows persist in asking moronic and/or mean spirited questions. What is up with that?

Giuliana DiPandi, a red carpet co-host on E! TV, actually suggested to Dane Cook and his girlfriend that after the show they go get tattoos on their "backsides" to commemorate the occasion. What? What planet did that idea come from?

One super-annoying thing these "hosts" do is ask the stars they are supposed to be interviewing what they think about other stars. One of them asked Rainn Wilson of The Office who he wanted to avoid at the Golden Globes. I suppose this question was triggered because a "breaking news report" had just come through her earpiece that Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz had requested that they not arrive at the same time because of their recent breakup. Huh?

My absolute favorite mean question from the Golden Globes was asked when America Ferrera won the award for best female actress in a TV series. As she was walking off stage she was first ignored entirely by the vacuous Maria Menoudos. Then, when Maria finally noticed that an award winner was standing right next to her, she had the audacity to ask America, "So, now that you have won a Golden Globe for your performance in Ugly Betty, what do you have to say to all those people who didn't think you should be hired for the job?" No joke. She really said that. What a bitch. I mean if you got a promotion at work and one of your co-workers said, "Congratulations. How do you feel about the fact that no one at the office thought you could do the job?" wouldn't you want to drop-kick them through a plate glass window?

I thought the very best moment of the pre-show was when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrived and were corralled by Ryan Seacrest. Angelina was shooting daggers at Seacrest and it was awesome. She was classy and said nothing but you could see that she had nothing but disdain for the bottom feeders that make their living peddling gossip about her and her family. As she and Brad walked into the awards I could hear two of the women hosts who were just on the voice-over commenting about how Angelina looked upset. One of these morons said, "Well she would rather be in a third world country rescuing children". Where do they find these people?

I would like to petition E! and these other "news" outlets to please hire some movie lovers to interview movie stars. I love Kristin Vietch of E! because she loves television and she asks intelligent and respectful questions of the stars she interviews. Why can't they hire more like her? Why do they all have to be complete idiots like Ryan Seacrest and Maria Menoudos? They need to tell these people when they hire them that if you can't ask an intelligent question at least don't ask an insulting question. Don't be mean, be sweet.

Ryan Seacrest - total award show buzz-kill