There’s no shame in a Razzie nomination, then, because it’s a marker of the risks she’s willing to take, all in service of our entertainment. We should be thanking her: Melissa McCarthy we are not worthy.

McCarthy isn’t the first actress to have her work lauded by both the highest and lowest awards bodies in the same year. McCarthy’s co-star in The Heat Sandra Bullock accepted the Razzie for Worst Actress for the terrible romantic comedy All About Steve the night before she picked up an Oscar for The Blind Side.

Bullock actually turned up to the ceremony to accept her award, becoming only the second woman to do so. (Halle Berry, for Catwoman, was the first.) From the Razzie’s podium, Bullock challenged the voters in the room to reconsider All About Steve and her performance in it. “This is the deal I’m going to make,” she joked in her acceptance speech. “I will show up next year if you promise to watch the movie, really watch it, and really consider if it really and truly was the worst performance. If you’re willing to watch it, I will come back next year and I will give back the Razzie.”

Her other suggestion was to stand on stage with a copy of the script, reading each of her lines, and taking tips from the audience on how she could have improved her performance. “We can do this ‘til about four o’clock, or you guys can rethink your decision and have me back next year,” she joked.

All About Steve is still a bad movie, and so, too is The Happytime Murders. But aren’t we lucky that we have McCarthy and Bullock out there in Hollywood doing their absolute darndest to make us smile?

Melissa McCarthy named best and worst actress of 2018 on the same day