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I'm too young to know anything about Barry Gibb, but it seemed to be a somewhat insensitive impression, given the focus of the evening. He seemed like someone with autism + tourette's.

Overall I thought it was kinda boring. Martin Short was the worst part of the evening, but other's were dismal as well. My favorite part would have to be Jack Black's song about other charities taking the night off. Sadly, it was all downhill from there. Jerry Seinfeld's routine on cell phones almost seemed like Jimmy Fallon doing an impression of Jerry Seinfeld. So predictable and boring.

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Fallon's Barry Gibb was a character reprise of an SNL skit he did a few years back. He was Barry and Justin Timberlake was Robin. It was one of the few classic, i.e. funny, skits from the past half decade.

Triumph's song was laugh-out-loud funny and Jack Black's song was very clever. The rest of the show was very hit-n-miss, but I must disagree with the first poster and state that Seinfeld's monologue was very good.

The show was very bold and asked for sizable donations right there on the spot from audience members. Jerry Lewis sure never did that.

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I think Elliott must have changed the channel at some point because I don't think he saw the same show I did. Yes, Seinfeld was a bit slow and Short practically brought the show to a halt, but there were so many other gems. Gervais' routine was good, but raised to instant classic with his parting line, which I won't spoil here. Steve Carell and Oscar Nunez appealing to all the rich cats to whom crazy cat ladies had left millions of dollars? Elvis Costello singing hits only when the donation levels reach a certain point and reverting to "new" songs nobody cares about when they get low? And the finale with the pairing Ladysmith Black Mombazo (well, an incredible simulation anyway) and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was absolutely inspired.

Since the show ran about 15 minutes long they'll likely have to cut some of it when they want to repeat it in a two-hour slot, so I'm betting they'll cut Martin Short's bit and with any luck, Will Ferrell's as well.

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Oh, forgot something. Ken, at the Jerry Lewis telethons they often pass buckets throughout the audience for donations, or audience pages will be holding buckets as audience members come and go. I doubt such direct appeals to the audience for large donations would work for Jerry Lewis since his audience gets in free. The people paying for the expensive seats at last night's show were far more likely to be able to afford such large donations.

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I tend to agree that the show was pretty boring for the most part, with periodic bright spots. Both Seinfeld and Gervais had a couple of funny jokes, and the rich cats thing was a riot, but otherwise most of the laughs seemed very forced.

On the other side of the coin, it was very nice to see stars actually pledging money rather than just lip service.

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Ok, i'm going to throw this out there...I've seen many many Oscar and Emmy broadcasts...but...was it just me, or was this one of the poorly produced live shows in recent time. The delay between "LA" and NY was terrible and the bit with Ben Stiller, you could actually hear the audio delay. Everyone's mic was static-y and Jon Stewart couldn't find the camera to save his life. I love Jon Stewart, but the production values for a 2 hour live show seemed a little weak. Other than that...it was entertaining as long as you got to skip through the commercials.

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After reading the other comments, I have to agree that there were some hilarious parts of the show. I guess when I wrote mine it was the ones I hated that were stuck in my mind.

Here's hoping they edit Short and Ferrell out of the show. And as much as I love them, I could do without Colbert and Stiller as well.

Did anyone notice during the part with David Cross there was a brief shot of Silverman and her bf (forget his name) during the clip of the fake talent show? Oh how I would have donated twice as much to hear some material from her.

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