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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