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    Grammys torture: How stars can learn from Sidney Poitier at the Oscars in these dire days of the acceptance speech

    by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Feb 15, 2019 3 minutes

    So excruciating were the acceptance speeches at Sunday night's Grammy Awards that Trevor Noah compared them to irritating people who wait in line at Chipotle, "get to the front and go, 'uh ...'"

    Noah was right. The Grammys were enough to make you dread the Oscars. These are dire days for the fine art of the acceptance speech.

    In almost every case at the Grammys, the speeches were too long - in the case of Drake, way too long - poorly prepared (if they were prepared at all),

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