Kanye kept on a leash for the 2017 Grammys

By +Ian C

Last night The Grammys were in town, and so were some of the planet's finest musical talents. A long list of celebrities were presenting and receiving awards, but the world's greatest celebrity musician was conspicuously absent. No I don't mean David Bowie, who had a good reason to not collect his 5 awards in person.

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The 7th Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

By +Ian C

Welcome to the 7th Annual Slap The Penguin Awards, or The Slappys™ as they are rapidly becoming known. This year's event will be short and sweet since we only published nine posts in 2016 and four of those were recap/review posts, so sit down, relax, and enjoy the next 3½ minutes.

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The 6th Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

By +Ian C

Welcome to the 6th Annual Slap The Penguin Awards, affectionately known as The Slappys™. We weren't even sure if this event would go ahead, and even as I am typing this, I am not 100% convinced that it will still happen, so if you aren't reading this then it didn't get published and the world missed out on an awesome online award presentation.

Jada Pinkett Smith launches "The Black Oscars"

By +Alexa Rankin

Hollywood has again been rocked by racism as "The Academy" is called out for not nominating a single black person for an award. An ever growing list of black stars are threatening to boycott this years Academy Awards, leaving host, Chris Rock, as the only black person in the Dolby (née Kodak) Theater. Jada Pinkett Smith was so furious about her husband, Will, being blackballed (metaphorically speaking) that she is having her own 'Black Oscars' instead.

The 5th Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

By +Ian C

Wow, it's hard to believe we made it through another year without too much trouble. The last Sunday of January comes around so quickly and we barely had enough time to count up all of the votes for the 5th Annual Slappy™ Awards. You can check out the previous events and winners here.

The 4th Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

Welcome to the 4th Annual Slap the Penguin Awards. This is the reason why many of us have been quiet for the last 2 weeks. It takes time and energy to collect and count votes so our output was severely reduced. Yes we have done this 3 times before and you can see the previous Slappy™ Awards here: ONE TWO THREE

The 3rd Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Slap the Penguin Awards. I know awards season was a while ago, but we were busy doing other things and some of us at STP worked pretty hard on this, so even though it is a few months late we are still going ahead with it. (Roll opening titles)

The 2nd Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

Welcome to the second annual Slap The Penguin Awards. Who would have thought that we would make it to a 2nd award show? Click HERE to read about last year's SLAPPYS^™.

The Other Oscars

Due to strict copyright controls and the protection of intellectual property, Slap the Penguin is unable to bring you any news regarding The Oscars (TM). However, nobody can stop us discussing The Other Oscars (TM).

L-R Oscar, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar and a lion (possibly named Oscar)

The 1st Annual Slap The Penguin Awards

Hello and welcome to the 1st annual(?) My Twist News Slap the Penguin Awards or 'Slappys' as they are going to be affectionately named.

The Slap the Penguin Award, A.K.A. "The Slappy" TM