Liana Maeby

Sorry, the Oscars, but you’re old, out of touch and boring. We can see through your failed attempts to reach a new generation: the Anne Hathaway/James Franco catastrophe, the phony (get it?) Ellen DeGeneres selfie stunt that was totally unscripted and Samsung definitely didn’t pay the Oscars $20 million in advance for. Just stop it already. Take a few years off.

In the meantime, we at Cracked have come up with a bunch of new categories that you’re totally free to steal, such as Best Title, Best Running Time, Best Accent and Best Oscar-Bait That Didn’t Get Any Nominations Other Than This One.

Recorded live at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles, a tuxedoed Jack O’Brien is joined by Cracked’s Dan O’Brien and Alex Schmidt, author Liana Maeby, and actor Stanley Wong of ‘The Big Short’ to brainstorm new categories, solve the Oscar’s race problem, and fix just about everything in time forSunday’s awards.

Writer Liana Maeby joins Jensen and Matty to talk about her new novel South on Highland, having Amazon as her publisher, SG Lewis, Mistress America, Submerged, Kahlil Joseph, Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn, how we’re late on The Gift, LARPs, Peaky Blinders, and many other things you should know about.

Cracked Head Writer Dan O’Brien grabs the reigns of the podcast and invites Cracked’s Soren Bowie and Riot’s Liana Maeby to the show to defend their terrible taste. Dan and Soren defend their love of ‘Space Jam’ and ‘The Saint,’ while Liana maintains her stance that The Beatles are terrible.