Emmys: Please welcome the still vital Carol Burnett, Marla Gibbs, and Joan Collins! Grammys: Let's create viral moments with Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox, and Joni Mitchell! Oscars: Older artists with huge cross-generational histories are gross and should be confined to an untelevised awards show.

No time to genuinely celebrate artists when you gotta make room for the YouTube movie montages, skits that only get a few meager chuckles, and an in memoriam that people will complain about no matter what.

They *have to* figure this shit out. The oldsters are good TV!They *have to* figure this shit out. The oldsters are good TV!

You know they’re going to do Glenn Close dirty when she gets her honorary Oscar.

Oscars always trying to go with “witty banter” before presenting the award or making us watch an interpretive dance montage when all I wanted to see was Jackie Chan walk onstage and get his Oscar.

Ugh, who would want to see Samuel L Jackson or Jackie Chan or Angela Lansbury or James Earl Jones get a lifetime achievement award? That’s crazy!

I remembered Blake Edwards shooting himself across the stage in a wheelchair gag before graciously accepting his Honorary Oscar. It’s absurd they took away that aspect of the telecast.

When we see the young & the old on stage together, or being honored for their respective brilliance, it really heals something imho. We need both innovation & wisdom now.

Just made me think of watching with my parents one year, as they scanned the audience, my dad exclaimed, “Joan Blondell!” Not exactly on topic, but.