Sometimes politicians get so bad that we make jokes about how we'd rather have a monkey, or drinking bird toy, or other humorous hyperbolic metaphor in charge, but then we never do anything about it. Such is the apathy of our voting citizenry today.
Wherever there is money and even the slightest demand for a service, there is someone out there willing to provide it, no matter how bizarre, pathetic or borderline illegal.
The point when everybody gets bored during the Academy Awards is when they give out all of those technical awards to people you've never heard of. Surprisingly, though, you're fans of some of these people. Hug fans, in some cases. You just didn't know it.