I thought his set was fine/whatever. I struggle to think of times that comedians have killed at awards shows (maybe Steve Martin? Ricky Gervais had memorable sets but they didn’t kill in the room).
Calling out the writers seemed clearly a joke to me (“the funny ones are the ones I wrote” seemed obviously to be an exaggeration) and I feel like we’ve seen decades of comics doing the same thing (Johnny Carson?). But okay, I guess it’s bad etiquette.
Even if the set was really bad, I’d be happy that he said to Scorsese’s face “you stole the premise of your movie from native people”. Which I thought was genuinely true and funny.
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