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Oscar Host Jimmy Kimmel Shades Both the Golden Globes and Ricky Gervais

By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 9, 2023 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 9, 2023 |


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The Oscar telecast is this Sunday, which is part of the reason that The Slap discourse has returned (that and Chris Rock and Marlon Wayans’ specials). Word from executive producer Molly McNearney, wife of host Jimmy Kimmel, is that they are going to acknowledge it and move on. Good plan.

The Oscars are the awards ceremony, and to the extent that awards mean anything at all (they do not), they mean the most when it’s an Oscar, which is to say: Slightly more than nothing. Slightly more than nothing, however, is more than the Golden Globes are worth, according to Jimmy Kimmel, who is happy that the world has finally figured out what a charade the GGs are, as he tells Rolling Stone, while also addressing the jokes awards hosts like Ricky Gervais have made at the expense of celebrities in the past.

“I think there’s always been hostility toward celebrities. First of all, the Golden Globes is not a real awards show. Let’s be honest. I don’t think any of them are necessarily valid, but if there is one that is valid it’s the Oscars and the ones where you’re voted on by your peers, like the SAG Awards, the Writer’s Guild Awards, and the Director’s Guild Awards. But the Globes are some foreign bike messengers who realized they’d get some free dinners if they decided to form this organization. I don’t know why it took so long for the world to figure that out! I think perhaps the world didn’t want to figure that out. We also know that if you have a trophy made, somebody’s gonna go up to take it. Trophies are like catnip for celebrities. We want them. I’m not sure why we want them! Art as a competition doesn’t seem right and doesn’t seem in the spirit of any of it, but what Ricky did was largely appropriate for the awards he was handing out, which were nonsense.”

In other words, they got a ridiculous meaningless host for a ridiculous meaningless awards show.

Source: Rolling Stone