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Seth MacFarlane’s Top Ten Best Jokes of the 2013 Oscars.

I think Seth MacFarlane did and awesome job last night.  Let’s face it; this has to be one of the most challenging gigs in Hollywood.  You are entertaining the World’s Greatest Entertainers, not to mention entertaining the rest of us peasants at home that are looking to be overly entertained.

Talk about pressure!  There is no doubt a lot of work and preparation went into MacFarlane’s routines.  The man sung, he danced, he told jokes and he was surprisingly good at all three.

At times he was borderline offensive, but that’s what makes a good comic great.  That’s why we like family guy and that’s why Ted took in $54.1 million in its first weekend.

In case you missed it, here are my top 10 Seth MacFarlane jokes of the night, from least to most offensive.

TEN: “This is a story of a man fighting to get back his woman who’s been subjected to unthinkable violence — or, as Rihanna and Chris Brown call it, a date moive!

NINE: “To give you an idea of how young she is, it’ll be 16 years before she’s too young for Clooney,”

EIGHT: “I would argue the actor who really got inside Lincoln’s head was John Wilkes Booth,” on Lincoln

SEVEN: “The film was a triumph and also a celebration of every woman’s innate ability to never ever let anything go,”

SIX:  Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those “Nutty Professor” movies.

FIVE: Daniel Day-Lewis, your process fascinates me. You were totally 100% in character as Lincoln during the making of the movie… So when you saw a cell phone, would you have to go,’Oh my God, what’s that?!’ If you bumped into Don Cheadle on the studio lot, did you try to free him? How deep did your method go?”

 FOUR:  It’s okay for Quentin Tarantino to use [the n-word] because he thinks he’s black.

THREE: “We have finally reached the point in the ceremony where either Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz or Salma Hayek comes onstage and we have no idea what they’re saying — but we don’t care, because they’re so attractive,”

TWO: “The first time I saw him with all that dark facial hair I thought, my god, the Kardashians have finally made the jump to film,”

ONE:  A lot of controversies over the use of the n-word in the film. I’m told apparently the screenplay is loosely based on Mel Gibson‘s voicemails.”

Let’s see if Seth is ever invited back.

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