Lauren Chen on why the Golden Globes was miserable to watch
Every year, it seems the Golden Globe Awards show gets worse. This year was no exception.
“I think it’s pretty safe to say at this point that the era of the celebrity awards show is basically dead,” Lauren Chen says, adding that they’re “an excuse for celebrities to virtue-signal about how progressive they are” and “essentially serve as left-wing propaganda.”
Comedian Jo Koy hosted the event and ended up circulating on X.
Not because his performance was reminiscent of when Ricky Gervais hosted but because “he was failing so spectacularly to elicit any type of laugh from the audience.”
He used his time on stage to poke fun at white people, telling the celebrity-packed audience that white people “stole everything.”
“You took the land, you took the oil, you took the premise of the movie. What that was your premise? That’s hilarious, I don’t care. It’s just that the room is really white. The room’s like yeah, we did take it,” Koy joked.
The audience's laughter was muffled.
“When you make a woke, anti-white, ‘Oh, aren’t white people terrible’ joke in a room full of progressive celebrities and they still don’t laugh, that’s how you know it isn’t funny,” Chen says, unamused.
But that wasn’t the worst of it. Koy also set his sights on Taylor Swift, which proved to be another flop.
“We came on after a football double header,” Koy began, “the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL, on the Golden Globes we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, I swear.”
When the camera panned to Taylor Swift, her gaze was locked on the comedian — and she was not happy.
“Suffice it to say that home girl looks absolutely pissed,” Chen says.
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Jordan Peterson and Piers Morgan picked up on something from the Golden Globes that no one else seemed to notice …
Just three days ago, the Golden Globes aired on national television. When watching such a spectacle, it’s easy to focus on the awards given and the lavish attire worn by the stars. But this year, Piers Morgan and Jordan Peterson noticed something else.
Dave Rubin plays the clip of the two discussing the event.
“I watched the whole thing for three hours,” Morgan told Peterson. “No political speeches, no virtue-signaling, no grandstanding. People basically did what Ricky Gervais told them to do three years ago, which is get up, thank your agent, and sit down and just celebrate making movies or TV shows.”
“I felt that there is a movement going on now of a real backlash,” he explained.
“Even Hollywood has woken up to the reality that people who watch the movies and TV shows, they don't want to hear this stuff all the time.”
“Well, we put politics first and foremost,” added Peterson.
“The mistake that entertainers make is that they regard what they do as mere entertainment. Hollywood stars and all the people who were involved in producing the narratives that entice and and compel us, they’re serving a master who's far higher than anything merely political, and when they bend their art to serve a political master, they distort the higher to the lower to their own detriment.”
“The art should never be subordinated to serve the political because then, not only does it get propagandistic, it gets dull and contemptible. No one cares what a star thinks about Trump,” he explained.
“So Jordan's point is that art should be made for art's sake,” explains Dave. “A beautiful painting should be beautiful because of what it brings out in you – that actually is divine and important, but once that becomes subservient to a political agenda, you get these hysterical people that are so incredibly self-righteous that they think because they can pretend to be an astronaut in a movie, they can also tell you how to live your life.”
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Listen to the Globes audience SQUIRM as Jim Gaffigan brilliantly humiliates elites
As the Epstein files trickle out to the public, some celebrities are making light of not being involved.
One of those celebrities is Jim Gaffigan, who used his time on stage at the Golden Globes to drive that home.
“This is so exciting for me,” Gaffigan told the audience as he introduced the award for best performance in a stand-up comedy on television. “The Golden Globes, I mean, I can’t even believe I’m in the entertainment industry.”
“I can’t, you know, it’s so unlikely. I’m from a small town in Indiana. I’m not a pedophile,” he added, joking.
Dave Rubin is impressed, noting that the audience actually laughed.
“The thing about comedy is comedy is usually done best when you’re saying something true, making people laugh about it, and then they have to start thinking,” Rubin says.
“Obviously there’s a lot of problems in Hollywood, in, let's say, our political institutions, this Epstein list, a whole bunch more,” he adds.
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Comedian Jim Gaffigan torches Hollywood at Golden Globes with 'pedophile' jab in wake of Epstein list reveal
Comedian Jim Gaffigan torched Hollywood during Sunday's 2024 Golden Globes Awards with a "pedophile" jab in the wake of last week's headline-grabbing Jeffrey Epstein list disclosures.
What are the details?
Gaffigan was presenting the first-ever Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television award, Decider reported, and amid his deadpan riffing, the comic dropped the following bomb on Tinseltown:
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"I can't even believe I'm in the entertainment industry, I can't," Gaffigan said. "You know, it's so unlikely. I'm from a small town in Indiana. I'm not a pedophile. ... I don't know if that's a new category here ..."
Laughter and even a smattering of applause from the crowd were audible after Gaffigan uttered the "pedophile" part of his joke.
Critics have been demanding the names of politicians and celebrities who may have been connected with an underage sex-trafficking ring operated by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and on Friday a third set of documents totaling about 1,300 pages was released in relation to a 2015 defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by one of Epstein's victims.
Decider noted that Gaffigan added, “For 80 years, good-looking people threw a party, right? And then you guys finally decided to invite the talented people.”
The outlet said Gaffigan soon read the names of the nominees for the award: Trevor Noah, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, and Ricky Gervais, adding that the prize went to Gervais for his special, "Ricky Gervais: Armageddon."
Gervais in 2020 went viral for his take-no-prisoners Golden Globes monologue that massacred left-wing celebrity culture.
How are folks reacting to Gaffigan's joke?
Gaffigan has expressed his disdain for former President Donald Trump and support for President Joe Biden, and a number of those reacting to Gaffigan's "pedophile" joke highlighted the comedian's politics:
- "LOL! He's a Trump-hating lefty, but he's on the money there," one commenter wrote.
- "Dude's a Trump hater," another commenter said. "Wish I could support him."
- "I loved Gaffigan until 2020 when he announced he was supporting Joe Biden," another commenter declared.
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Golden Globes ratings crash 64% despite folks being stuck at home
The ratings are in for the 2021 Golden Globes, and it is not a pretty picture.
What are the details?
According to the Associated Press, Sunday night's awards ceremony on NBC drew in 6.9 million viewers — an eye-popping 64% less than 2020's Golden Globes, which pulled in 18.4 million people before the U.S. entered widespread lockdowns due to the coronavirus.
The revelation led Vanity Fair to ask, "How will the Golden Globes recover from 2021?" with Yohana Desta writing, "the hybrid event turned out to be too tough a sell for viewers."
This year's show was hosted by "Saturday Night Live" alums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and included several signature "woke" lectures from actors, which audiences have come to expect. However, many artists delivered their acceptance speeches virtually, as pandemic measures kept them from attending in person.
One grievance mentioned more than once from the stage — including by the hosts — was against the organization itself that runs the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, after the Los Angeles Times revealed that the group does not have any black voting members.
Last year, the pre-lockdown event was brimming full with Hollywood and corporate elites in the audience, when British comedian Ricky Gervais famously delivered a scolding of his own to the liberal crowd, telling them:
"So, if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award. Thank your agent and your god, and f*** off!"
Anything else?
Axios reported Tuesday that former President Donald Trump's speech Sunday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference came close to matching the Golden Globes in viewers, with Trump pulling in 6.7 million people.
The AP reported that Fox News' coverage of the former president's speech, the first he has made since leaving office, was "by far the most-watched cable program last week."
In his speech, Trump lambasted Republican lawmakers who voted for conviction during his second impeachment trial, telling the crowd in Florida, "Instead of attacking me and more importantly the voters of our movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy in opposing [Joe] Biden, [Nancy] Pelosi, [Chuck] Schumer, and the Democrats."
Far-left actor Mark Ruffalo ripped for decrying 'cruel past of this nation,' warning of 'dying ... Mother Earth' in Golden Globes speech
Far-left actor Mark Ruffalo was ripped on social media after his Golden Globes award acceptance speech, during which he decried the "cruel past of this nation" and warned of our "dying ... Mother Earth."
What are the details?
Ruffalo is well known for his left-wing activism and virtue-signaling, as he once blasted Ellen DeGeneres' call for "kindness" over her photo with former President George W. Bush and said his mother's illegal abortion helped shape his pro-choice views.
So he followed a familiar script Sunday night upon winning a Best Actor Golden Globe and used his platform to make a passionate pitch for environmentalism — even though the series he starred in, "I Know This Much Is True," had nothing to do with the topic.
"At 54 years, it's my humble belief that what would give all this sadness and loss that we've all lived through meaning is our common humanity," he began. "What connects us is greater than what keeps us apart, and the more we include each other and see each other and hear each other, the faster we will heal our broken hearts and minds."
Then came the environmentalism push: "We have a dying mother just like the mother in our story. She's Mother Earth, and we must come to balance with her and honor her, and she'll heal, too. So let's be courageous together, guys, and let's turn the page on the cruel past of this nation."
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But he wasn't through: "The good news is inclusion and justice and care for Mother Earth is breaking out everywhere. The godly light of decency is breaking through the hideous, dark storm we've been living through. We are all in this together. We are the ones we've been waiting for, so let's do this."
How did folks react?
Of course, Ruffalo got some kudos on social media after his speech. But a number of other commenters didn't see eye to eye with him:
- "You're an irrelevant moron who hasn't a clue what you're talking about," one Twitter commenter declared.
- "Entitled idiot," one user wrote. "I bet he won't stop flying in private jets."
- "Liberal morons who lost their way in life over money," another commenter said. "Sad times for this type of human."
- "Somehow, I don't think Mr. Ruffalo wants to include or see or hear a conservative like me," another user said. "So, by his own stratagem, his broken mind won't be healing any time soon."
- "Dying Mother Earth??? Even if it was 'dying' it's in the first place thanks to Hollywood money junkies that never say never to anything," another commenter said. "The good news is it's not dying — you can't kill it, you're too weak. Relax bro, Earth is safe without your virtue signaling."
Anything else?
Ruffalo's virtue-signaling has gotten him in trouble, as he was forced to take down a tweet last October that stated, "Unless you are Native American you are an immigrant in this country. FULL STOP. We all came from somewhere else. We are living on their ancestral land. We all came from somewhere else." Ruffalo was criticized for not acknowledging that ancestors of black Americans were brought to the U.S. as slaves.
Although it should be noted that Ruffalo also stood up for actor Chris Pratt — who last year was attacked by social media users for his Christian faith and what they perceived to be his political stance — saying that Pratt "is as solid a man there is. I know him personally, and instead of casting aspersions, look at how he lives his life. He is just not overtly political as a rule. This is a distraction. Let's keep our eyes on the prize, friends. We are so close now."