The drumbeat has already begun. Some star-crazed twitterati have seen the future — and they’re sure Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer should host next year’s Golden Globes.
And they’re basing this on what, exactly?
Oh yeah — on J.Law/Schumer’s boring, overly scripted interaction on Sunday night’s telecast. Because they’re like, you know, besties. Obviously.
Talk about the pop-culture moment that wasn’t. And yet those hyperactive, twittering twits are going on and on about “Team J.Law/Amy,” and how 2016 will be “Their Year,” how “J.Law and Amy” may possibly cure cancer or broker peace in the Middle East, because they appeared onstage together at an awards show.
So, obviously, they’re besties.
I don’t know about anyone else, but watching Lawrence and Schumer read their awkwardly scripted fluff off cue cards Sunday night was an exercise in tedium. The better argument — the one no immature fanboy/fangirl wants to hear — is that they be kept apart from each other, at least on nationally televised awards shows.
Because if there was any onstage chemistry between them, I missed it. Shame on me.
I did, however, detect lots of their forced Hollywood hipness before they dropped several lame jokes that missed their marks.
Because they’re like, you know, besties. Obviously.