The Woke Oscars Will Be Entirely Out Of Step With The National Vibe Shift Right
It’s impossible to see the current list of Oscar nominees as anything more than different iterations of the same tired woke formula.It’s impossible to see the current list of Oscar nominees as anything more than different iterations of the same tired woke formula.Steve Guttenberg helps with hometown evacuations as Los Angeles wildfire rages
Pray for California.
A massive fire continues to rage through the west side of Los Angeles today, spread by winds of up to 100 miles per hour and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in the Pacific Palisades area.
Hollywood journalists want nothing more than a Resistance sequel, but so far it’s not happening.
The fire started Tuesday morning in the Highlands neighborhood, nestled in the hills high above the Pacific Coast Highway. Only one road — Palisades Drive — connects the Highlands to the rest of the city. It soon became jammed as residents fled the area.
Some residents even abandoned their vehicles, causing a problem for first responders racing toward the conflagration.
Lefty Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had more important business to attend to in Africa — celebrating the inauguration of Ghana's new president — but a local news crew did spot a prominent local pitching in: "Police Academy" actor Steve Guttenberg.
"If you leave your car behind, leave the key in there so a guy like me can move your car so that these fire trucks can get up there," Guttenberg pleaded to viewers.
“There are people stuck up there," he continued. "So we’re trying to clear Palisades Drive, and I’m walking up there as far as I can, moving cars. ... There are families up there, there are pets up there. There are people who really need help.”
The "Three Men and a Baby" star, a longtime resident of Pacific Palisades, served as grand marshal for the neighborhood's 2024 Fourth of July parade.
God bless the Gute — and the brave men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Global cooling
Come back, Ricky!
The Golden Globes handed out trophies Sunday night, but a smaller crowd than usual showed up to watch it.
This year’s telecast, hosted by Nikki Glaser, snagged just 9.3 million viewers, down 2% from last year’s disastrous turn from last-minute fill-in host Jo Koy.
Those numbers don’t sound awful, but just five years ago the show drew double that audience. Credit 2020 host Ricky Gervais, who skewered the Hollywood elite so relentlessly that some stars may still be in therapy from it …
Orange Man Bad fatigue?
Hollywood journalists want nothing more than a Resistance sequel, but so far it’s not happening.
Stars united against President Donald Trump early in the 2016 presidential campaign. Sarah Silverman was among the first to play the Hitler Card(TM) against Trump. It failed. Madonna somehow avoided a Secret Service door-knock after saying she dreamed of blowing up the White House.
Now, with Trump’s commanding Nov. 5 victory in pocket, Celebrity Nation could play its Orange Man Bad greatest hits. So far, the band remains pretty quiet.
The Hollywood Reporter mourned that reality in a recent op-ed. Now, Variety takes a swing at the subject, reading between the lines to find that the true-blue Resistance is about to break open.
Really. Just wait. It’s coming.
“Entertainment Executives Want to Play Ball with Trump. The Stars Who Work for Them May Have a Different Idea,” reads the headline. The article cited trans actor Karla Sofia Gascon’s Golden Globes speech for his winning film “Emilia Perez” as proof.
If you squint, you can see the writer double- and triple-crossing his fingers.
“I am who I am … not who you want." Talk about defiance! Her message was about the dignity and rights of trans people, but given the timing of it, at a globally televised awards ceremony taking place two weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump, you could hear another message nestled inside it: that the resistance isn’t going away.
Four-plus years ago, stars actively wished for Trump’s death. Now, you have to read between the lines of an awards show speech to glean something remotely Resistance-y …
Clint laughs last
Warner Bros. Discovery had what could be Clint Eastwood’s last movie and said, “Eh, let’s dump it on streaming.”
“Juror #2,” starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, and J.K. Simmons, appeared in a smattering of theaters before heading to VOD and Max. The film follows a father-to-be (Hoult) who fears he has a personal, and deadly, connection to the case he’s been asked to help adjudicate.
Now, Eastwood is having the last laugh. The film has sat in the number-one spot on Max’s top movie list since debuting on the platform Dec. 20. Oh, and critics loved the movie, giving it a 92% “fresh” rating at RottenTomatoes.com.
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."
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