Wednesday 20 February 2013

INQUIRER.net: On Twitter, a peanut gallery mocks the Oscars

INQUIRER.net
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On Twitter, a peanut gallery mocks the Oscars
Feb 21st 2013, 01:59

NEW YORK — You can simply tune into the Oscars. Or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter.   While Hollywood parades in tuxedos and gowns, grandly celebrating itself, a freewheeling cacophony of quips and sarcasm — something like a digital, million-times multiplied version of those balcony Muppet onlookers, Statler and Waldorf — will provide a welcome and riotous counter-narrative to the pomp.   The second-screen experience is never better than on Oscar night, when a separate (and some might say superior) entertainment experience plays out on social media. The running commentary, in which comedians and others parody the glamorous stars and t...

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