Oh, the NBC telecast of the awards can be highly entertaining. When Ricky Gervais hosted, it was a hoot. Same with the Tina Fey-Amy Pohler pairings.
And it’s possible that this year’s genuinely odd-couple hosts — Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg — could provide some laughs, although NBC’s promos for Sunday’s telecast (6 p.m., Channel 5) are pretty painfully lame.
The joke that’s not funny is the membership of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which selects the nominees and the winners. You can gain membership by writing a few stories for some suspect publication in, say, Slovenia.