Explicit sexual content on television shows is so common it’s not even shocking anymore. Instead, the more surprising move is to make a popular series with attractive young actors and then choose not to show them all hooking up with each other.
This isn’t necessarily what the creator of the Emmy-winning series “The Bear” set out to do. But in crafting a narrative that’s free from blatant sexual promiscuity, the showrunner proved that even if sex sells, a series doesn’t need sex to sell. It just needs to tell a good story.
“The Bear” is a comedy-drama television series created by Christopher Storer. The Hulu series debuted on June 23, 2022, with actor Jeremy Allen White starring as an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage his family restaurant after his older brother committed suicide. The restaurant is filled with colorful characters and family members, each with their own idiosyncrasies and unique personalities. 
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A lot of drama went down in two seasons, but except for a very brief, extremely tame (comparatively speaking) moment in the second season, “The Bear” has no sexual content whatsoever.
Every episode is rated TV-MA for explicit language, of which there is plenty. This fits in well with the storyline, though, as it accurately represents what goes on in real restaurant kitchens across the nation. Many members of the restaurant industry complained that the show is so true to life that it’s impossible to watch.
But there’s no sex. That absence was enough to make mainstream media writers notice, with many outlets noting of the first season that “The Bear” was even sexier because it didn’t have any sex in it.
“The Hottest Show of the Summer Has No Sex,” one <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2022/07/the-bear-television-no-sex-yes-chef.html">headline</a> from 2022 declared.
“‘The Bear’ is largely devoid of romance in any sense of the word, and the only moments of real pleasure come from food: making it, eating it, selling it, having enough money to make more of it,” the writer from The Cut” explains. “The show’s most poignant and vulnerable scenes happen between family or friends, not romantic partners.”
The article goes on to mention how there’s obvious sexual tension between the show’s two main characters, Carmy (White) and Syd (Ayo Edebiri), but the two chefs never act on it or even seem to acknowledge it. The writer observes how this complete lack of follow-through is precisely what makes the show alluring.
Though no mainstream writer would admit it, what they’ve stumbled upon is the idea that subtlety is more attractive than explicit sexual imagery. A woman wearing a turtleneck sweater can – and does – look sexier than that same woman in a skimpy bikini top.
This isn’t to say that the restaurant employees aren’t having sex on the show. Maybe they are doing it, somewhere off-camera. But the point of “The Bear” is to tell the story of a close-knit group of friends and family who, despite their dysfunction, are coming together to build something exceptional. This storyline doesn’t need nudity and gratuitous sex to be told well. And because it doesn’t have those things, “The Bear” stands out from other shows in the same sphere.
Because it is 2024, there is one single intimate scene in the show’s second season. But once again, considering the show is rated TV-MA, the brief interlude is incredibly tame when compared to so many others. Carmy and his girlfriend are seen in bed but there’s no nudity or other indicators of sexual activity.
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This method of storytelling once again proves that explicit sex is far less sexy than subtlety and innuendo.
One reviewer called the absence of pornographic content “ingenious.” The Mamamia writer compared “The Bear” to HBO’s drama series “The Idol” starring The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp, the latter of which made headlines for having such graphic sex scenes.
“In an age where watching sex — or rather, porn — is available at the tap of a finger, it almost feels like a daring choice to exclude intimacy scenes from ‘The Bear,’” Shannen Findlay <a href="https://www.mamamia.com.au/the-bear-sex-scenes/">wrote</a>.
“‘The Idol’ was intent on telling us something through lewd and violent intimacy. Unlike ‘The Bear,’ it uses raunchy, debaucherous sex instead of a good plot to tell the story,” she added. “But in a world where sex is so visible and easy to access, why do we have to keep enduring simulated intercourse between actors? Why is the inclusion of sex beginning to feel like a drawback when choosing or watching a show?”
It’s worth mentioning that “The Bear” was renewed for a third season after receiving widespread critical acclaim for its writing, directing, acting, and production values.
The first season received ten Emmy Awards including Outstanding Comedy Series and individual wins for White, Edebiri, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. It also won four Golden Globe Awards including the top prize for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2024.
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“The Idol” was panned by critics, mocked by viewers, and canceled after just one season.
It’s because “The Bear” is telling a more vital story than one about empty sex. Season 2 episodes “Fishes” and “Forks” were two of the most moving, emotionally fraught episodes of television to come out in recent years. Neither one contains sex. But both have incredible depth.
There’s a very good chance that Hollywood show creators will learn nothing from this phenomenon. Despite “The Bear” proving definitively that entertainment doesn’t need sex, nudity, promiscuity, and other sexual content to win awards and attract fans, there’s a good chance that showrunners will continue jamming sex scenes into content even when it’s not needed.
There’s also a chance that “The Bear” will add more sex into their third season, following the trend of so many shows that came before.
Hopefully this refreshingly different drama series will hold out and continue being the sexiest sex-free show on television.

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Sexier With Clothes On? ‘The Bear’ Wins Emmys, Attracts Fans Without Sex And Nudity

Sexier With Clothes On? 'The Bear' Wins Emmys, Attracts Fans Without Sex And Nudity

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedian">Comedian</a> Jo Koy started by blaming the writers for his jokes failing to land at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes">Golden Globes</a>. Now he said it was the star-studded audience’s fault.
The 52-year-old stand-up comic agreed to the awards show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">hosting gig</a> after several other prominent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">celebrities</a> turned it down. Koy received a lot of backlash for jokes he made from the stage during the January 7 broadcast after he made fun of “Oppenheimer,” Taylor Swift, and “Barbie.” When Koy started hearing boos from the crowd, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/golden-globes-host-jo-koy-booed-during-monologue-blames-writers-for-bad-jokes">blamed</a> the bad jokes on his writers.
“Some I wrote, some other people wrote,” Koy said when the Golden Globes crowd started booing. “Yo, I got the gig ten days ago! You want a perfect monologue? Shut up! You’re kidding me, right? I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Now the “Chelsea Lately” alum claims the audience should have responded better to the jokes. 
Koy addressed the incident during a comedy tour stop in St. Louis on Friday night. &#8220;Lot a marshmallows, man. They&#8217;re delicious, but godd***, they&#8217;re soft,&#8221; the comedian said of his audience, per <a href="https://variety.com/2024/awards/news/jo-koy-slams-golden-globes-stand-up-jokes-1235870905/">Variety</a>. &#8220;I just come from a different time. I see the changes that are happening. I get it, but godd***, can we f***ing laugh at ourselves?&#8221;
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Koy went on to speculate that most of his show’s audience members didn’t watch the Golden Globes anyway.
&#8220;I got a feeling none of you motherf***ers watched it, and I&#8217;m kinda happy. Oh my God. It feels good to live in this country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We get to say what we want to say. Don&#8217;t be apologetic about it at all. Be able to…speak your mind.&#8221; 
Koy’s ex-girlfriend, Chelsea Handler, also referenced Koy’s monologue Sunday night while speaking at the Critics Choice Awards show.
&#8220;Unfortunately, Martin Scorsese isn&#8217;t here tonight, but that&#8217;s not going to stop me from letting everyone in this room know that I would toss him around like a little Italian meatball,” she said, reacting to the applause and laughter by saying, &#8220;Thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-hart" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Hart</a> made it crystal clear he will never host the Oscars and said the days of comedians taking those gigs are over because they aren’t &#8220;comedy friendly environments anymore.&#8221;
During the 44-year-old comedian&#8217;s appearance on <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/kevin-hart-on-oscars-chill-awards-shows-are-very-cold8230-they-arent-a-comedy-friendly-environment-13046358?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sky News</a>, a reporter asked Hart about stepping down as host of the Academy Awards five years ago and if fans could ever expect to see him take on the gig again.
&#8220;No, absolutely not,&#8221; Hart said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s just throw that hope right out the window right now. Whatever level of hope you have, I want to destroy it right now. No, not at all.&#8221;
&#8220;Those gigs aren&#8217;t good gigs for comics,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It’s no shot to the Oscars, the Globes or anything. Those just aren&#8217;t comedy friendly environments anymore.&#8221;
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Kevin Hart says there&#8217;s absolutely no chance he will ever host the Oscars, labelling award show gigs as &#8220;very cold&#8221; and not &#8220;comedy friendly environments&#8221;
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&#8220;The days of it being a room for a comic, those days are done,&#8221; Hart continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people who understand it. But if you&#8217;re not an industry comic, meaning a comic who has the relationship of all, then those rooms are very cold. &#8230; It&#8217;s not the gig that it was of old.&#8221;
Hart said kudos to those who have been able to do it, mentioning people like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comedians-adam-sandler-rob-schneider-and-more-defend-chris-rocks-will-smith-jokes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Rock</a> and comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audience-response-makes-it-clear-golden-globe-viewers-want-ricky-gervais-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ricky Gervais,</a> but said he thought there was too much pressure now on what is and is not considered a joke.
The &#8220;Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle&#8221; star had previously been picked to host the Oscars in 2019, but ended up stepping down after he was told by the Academy to apologize over past tweets and jokes from stand-up shows years earlier that had resurfaced, or he won&#8217;t be the host.
&#8220;My team calls me, &#8216;Oh my God, Kevin, everyone&#8217;s upset by tweets you did years ago,'&#8221; <a href="https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/kevin-hart-says-the-film-academy-has-given-him-an-ultimatum-apologize-or-well-find-another-oscars-host-1203083698/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hart</a> said in a video on Instagram at the time. &#8220;Guys, I&#8217;m nearly 40 years old. If you don&#8217;t believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I don&#8217;t know what to tell you. If you want to hold people in a position where they always have to justify the past, do you. I&#8217;m the wrong guy, man.&#8221;
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&#8220;I chose to pass on the apology,&#8221; he added in a second video. &#8220;The reason why I passed is because I&#8217;ve addressed this several times. This is not the first time this has come up. I&#8217;ve addressed it. I&#8217;ve spoken on it. I&#8217;ve said where the rights and wrongs were. I&#8217;ve said who I am now versus who I was then. I&#8217;ve done it. I&#8217;m not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I&#8217;ve moved on and I&#8217;m in a completely different place in my life.&#8221;
In a later tweet, Hart announced that he had stepped down from hosting so he wouldn&#8217;t be a distraction and wrote, &#8220;I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-tired-selena-gomez-does-more-than-hint-at-end-of-music-career" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Selena Gomez</a> said she&#8217;s once <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/happiest-ive-ever-been-selena-gomez-explains-why-ditching-social-media-for-4-5-years-made-her-feel-normal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">again</a> going off social media &#8220;for a while&#8221; to focus &#8220;on what really matters&#8221; after speculation about her conversation with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-sets-new-record-with-the-eras-tour-film-global-success" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a> at the Golden Globes went viral.
The 31-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selena-gomez-says-real-stomachs-are-coming-back-after-posting-swimsuit-video-while-on-vacation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actress/singer</a> shared a video of her boyfriend, Benny Blanco, and wrote on an Instagram Stories post dated January 9 that, &#8220;I&#8217;m off social for a while. I&#8217;m focusing on what really matters,&#8221; <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1392846/selena-gomez-announces-social-media-break-after-golden-globes-drama?cmpid=social_instagram_bio%26source%3Dinstagram-enews%26medium%3Dlink-post">E! News</a> reported.
Her departure follows numerous headlines speculating that her animated chat with Swift and Keleigh Teller at the awards show allegedly had to do with Hollywood couple Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet.
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Initial speculations surfaced online that the chat was allegedly about Selena being denied a chance to snap a picture with Chalamet because Jenner said no, according to E! News. Others — including lip reader <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/01/08/entertainment/lip-reader-reveals-selena-gomez-taylor-swift-golden-globes-convo/?_gl=1*14bu6sh*_ga*MTY5ODgwMzA2MS4xNjgwNzE5MzY0*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*MTcwNDkxMTA5My4xNDEuMS4xNzA0OTExNDE2LjAuMC4w">Jeremy Freeman</a> — speculated the photo denial was due to the actor himself saying no.
A source close to Gomez told <a href="https://people.com/selena-gomez-was-not-gossiping-timothee-chalamet-kylie-jenner-golden-globes-2024-8423584">People Magazine</a> the singer was &#8220;absolutely not referencing anything about Timothée or Kylie.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not true she went up to them and asked for a photo,&#8221; the insider told E! News. &#8220;She never saw them.&#8221;
When the speculation continued to make headlines, the former Disney Channel star broke her silence and adamantly denied it.
&#8220;Noooooo I told Taylor about two of my friends who hooked up,&#8221; Gomez wrote in response to an E! News <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C12rvkIvVhi/">Instagram post</a>. &#8220;Not that that&#8217;s anyone[s] business.&#8221;
Chalamet also hit back at the rumors and said that there was no bad blood between Jenner and Gomez.
&#8220;They&#8217;re all good,&#8221; the &#8220;Wonka&#8221; star <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/09/timothee-chalamet-denies-bad-blood-feud-kylie-jenner-selena-gomez/">told TMZ</a>.
Gomez recently made headlines when it appeared she made comments about the possibility that her music career is coming to an end.
During the singer&#8217;s appearance on the latest &#8220;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smartless/id1521578868?i=1000639496561">Smartless&#8221;</a> podcast, Gomez talked about how she has &#8220;one more album&#8221; in her before she closes the door on her singing career, <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1392309/selena-gomez-reveals-her-next-album-will-likely-be-her-last">E! News</a> reported. 
&#8220;I started having a lot of fun with music and then touring was really fun,&#8221; the pop singer said. &#8220;But I was doing my TV show [&#8216;Wizards of Waverly Place&#8217;] at the same time, and I just found it really fun, so I just kept going.&#8221;
&#8220;But the older I get, the more I&#8217;m kind of like, &#8216;I would like to find something to just settle on,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I do feel like I have one more album in me, but I would probably choose acting. I am gonna wanna chill because I&#8217;m tired.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-tired-selena-gomez-does-more-than-hint-at-end-of-music-career" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;I&#8217;m Tired&#8217;: Selena Gomez Does More Than Hint At End Of Music Career</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audience-response-makes-it-clear-golden-globe-viewers-want-ricky-gervais-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Golden Globes</a> experienced its first spike in the ratings game since 2020 as the annual awards show on Sunday had a 50 percent over last year&#8217;s dismal viewership.
With a move to the CBS network and a lead-in from the NFL, the Golden Globes averaged 9.4 million viewers, based on time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen, according to The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-jan-7-2024-1235782200/">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The 2024 show was up from the 6.25 million viewers who watched last year on NBC, marking the second-smallest audience in the network&#8217;s 28 years of broadcasting the awards show.
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ngl i never found Jo Koy funny and what he said at the golden globe was actually why the barbie movie was made, because of sexist comments like those. It has come out that even the cast hated the joke and I understand why, never hand this man a mic again. <a href="https://t.co/qV8aiFb2Ij">pic.twitter.com/qV8aiFb2Ij</a>
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Last year&#8217;s show barely beat the worst-rated televised show in 2008, when a press conference was held in place of the star-studded event amid a writers strike.
The NFL lead-in of the Buffalo Bills beating the Miami Dolphins 21-14 helped the awards show numbers, THR noted. 
While the higher ratings are a reason for CBS to celebrate, the numbers are still way below pre-pandemic viewership. To put the 9.4 million viewers into context, the Golden Globes previously pulled in an <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-jan-7-2024-1235782200/">average</a> of nearly 19 million viewers between 2008 and 2019, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-08/golden-globe-awards-9-4-million-viewers-cbs-robert-downey-jo-koy">noted</a>.
Despite the improvement in the ratings, viewers took to social media and widely panned the 2024 host Jo Koy. 
&#8220;&#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; and &#8216;Barbie&#8217; are competing for cinematic box office achievement,&#8221; Koy said from the stage on Sunday. &#8220;&#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; is based on a 724-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and &#8216;Barbie&#8217; is based on a plastic doll with big boobies.&#8221;
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His comments fell flat with the performers in the room and viewers at home. Koy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/08/jo-koy-golden-globes-host-reaction-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the criticism and online backlash, saying, &#8220;You know, it was a moment that I&#8217;ll always remember. It&#8217;s a tough room.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a hard job, I&#8217;m not going to lie … I&#8217;d be lying if [I said] it doesn&#8217;t hurt … Hosting is just a tough gig,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m a standup comic but that hosting position it&#8217;s a different style. I kind of went in and did the writers&#8217; thing. We had ten days to write this monologue. It was a crash course. I feel bad, but I got to still say I loved what I did.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-an-ahole-emma-stone-defends-taylor-swift-at-golden-globes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;What An A**hole&#8217;: Emma Stone Defends Taylor Swift At Golden Globes</a>

Golden Globes See Spike In Ratings For First Time Since 2020

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-emma-stone-considering-following-scarlett-johanssons-footsteps-by-suing-disney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emma Stone</a> jokingly called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/source-reveals-how-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-families-feel-about-romance-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a> an &#8220;a**hole,&#8221; then defended the pop singer after Stone won Best Performance by Female Actor at the 2024 Golden Globes.
During the 81st annual awards show, the 35-year-old actress was <a href="https://x.com/TSwiftNZ/status/1744463687208071362?s=20">asked</a>, &#8220;When you won, Taylor Swift gave you a huge applause. What are your thoughts on her cheering your win?&#8221; 
&#8220;What an a**hole, am I right?&#8221; Stone jokingly replied at the post-awards backstage event with press. &#8220;No. I&#8217;ve known her for almost 20 years.&#8221;
&#8220;I was very happy she was there,&#8221; she added. &#8220;She [Swift] was also nominated tonight, which was wonderful.&#8221;
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📹 | Emma Stone’s response to a reporter on Taylor cheering for her when she won <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a>
“What an asshole am I right? No, I’ve known her almost 20 years so I’m very happy she was there. She was also nominated tonight which was wonderful.”
<a href="https://t.co/XxtKfh3asy">pic.twitter.com/XxtKfh3asy</a>
— Taylor Swift News 🩵 (@TSwiftNZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TSwiftNZ/status/1744463687208071362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
Before the &#8220;Easy A&#8221; actress walked away from the microphone, she continued joking about her pal, &#8220;What an a**hole!&#8221;
Social media <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12938771/Emma-Stone-calls-Taylor-Swift-hole-Golden-Globes.html">users</a> loved Stone&#8217;s response, with one person writing that she should be protected &#8220;at all costs.&#8221;
Another added, &#8220;I love seeing women supporting women, friends supporting friends and people supporting people, but why not ask Emma about the work she does instead?&#8221;
While a third continued, &#8220;There&#8217;s a time and place to fangirl over Taylor Swift, and it&#8217;s called Twitter.&#8221;
The &#8220;Love Story&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swifts-rise-to-the-top-in-2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hitmaker</a> made an appearance at the 2024 Golden Globes after her &#8220;Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour&#8221; movie was nominated in the new Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category. In the end, Swift ended up losing to Greta Gerwig&#8217;s &#8220;Barbie.&#8221;
When the winner was announced, it was the &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; hitmaker who jumped to her feet before everyone else and started a standing <a href="https://x.com/RaminSetoodeh/status/1744193490664497472?s=20">ovation</a> for the Margot Robbie-lead movie that crushed at the box office in 2023.
At the domestic box office in 2023, &#8220;Barbie&#8221; led the rest, scoring $636 million with Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Eras&#8221; movie earning $179.8 million, <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2023/">BoxOffice Mojo</a> noted.
Stone and Swift have been friends since early in both their careers, dating back to 2008, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/emma-stone-jokes-taylor-swifts-reaction-golden-globes-win?intcmp=tw_fnc">Fox News</a> noted.
&#8220;It’s just so important to have people that you trust and Emma[Stone] and Selena [Gomez] and I, we&#8217;ve had so many things in our lives that have changed over the last couple years, but our friendship has stayed the same,&#8221; Swift told <a href="https://www.accessonline.com/articles/taylor-swift-im-a-girls-girl-singer-talks-star-girlfriends-selena-gomez-emma-stone-new-girl-hbos-girls-124874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Access Hollywood</a> in 2012. &#8220;So that’s really good.&#8221;

Emma Stone

‘What An A**hole’: Emma Stone Defends Taylor Swift At Golden Globes

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/golden-globes-host-jo-koy-booed-during-monologue-blames-writers-for-bad-jokes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Golden Globes&#8217;</a> elite audience and social media users&#8217; responses to comedian Jim Gaffigan’s pedophile joke at the 2024 award show made it clear that everyone wants comedian Ricky Gervais back as the host.
During the 81st annual awards show on Sunday, the 57-year-old actor and comic got more cheers and applause for his jokes than the comedian picked to host the 2024 show, Jo Koy.
&#8220;This is so exciting for me,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/goldenglobes/status/1744188845065994385?s=20">Gaffigan</a> said as a presenter at the annual ceremony for first-ever Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television. &#8220;The Golden Globes – I can&#8217;t even believe I&#8217;m in the entertainment industry. I can&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s so unlikely,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;m from a small town in Indiana. I&#8217;m not a pedophile. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a new category here, but …&#8221;
The room of star Hollywood performers roared with laughter at the gag and gave the comedian a round of applause.
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Jim Gaffigan calls out pedophilia in Hollywood at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a>: “I can&#8217;t even believe I&#8217;m in the entertainment industry. It&#8217;s so unlikely… 
I&#8217;m from a small town in Indiana and I&#8217;m not a pedophile&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/RhNKeNX2ZH">pic.twitter.com/RhNKeNX2ZH</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1744435810739384532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
The comedian then <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/comedian-jim-gaffigan-torches-hollywood-at-golden-globes-with-pedophile-jab-in-wake-of-epstein-list-reveal?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dlvr.it_x_theblaze">listed</a> off the the names of nominees for the award which included, Gervais, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes, with the award going to Gervais for his successful Netflix special, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-hope-netflix-has-pre-ordered-the-fainting-couches-ricky-gervais-comedy-special-hits-netflix-outrage-ensues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ricky Gervais: Armageddon</a>.&#8221;
And over on X (formerly Twitter), the response to Gaffigan’s brief moment on the show was similar, with people posting clips of his bit along with clips of Gervais torching Hollywood four years earlier at the 2020 Golden Globes — all while <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/jo-koy-golden-globes-host-canceled-worst-jokes-memes-1858494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panning</a> the current host, Koy.
&#8220;Is it me or is this becoming a trend?” one person wrote on social media comparing the two comedians&#8217; appearances. &#8220;Jim Gaffigan pulled a Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes. I&#8217;m here for it.&#8221;
Another added, &#8220;This is epic!  We got a [Ricky Gervais] moment at Pedowood&#8217;s 2024 Golden Globe.&#8221;
A third person included a side-by-side clip of Gaffigan&#8217;s appearance alongside <a href="https://twitter.com/Dknarfstudios/status/1744203687541543324/video/1">Gervais</a> —who torched Hollywood over its &#8220;pedophile movies&#8221; and cracked a joke about convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while hosting the show in 2020.
&#8220;No one cares about movies anymore,&#8221; Gervais said at the time. &#8220;No one goes to cinema, no one really watches network TV. Everyone is watching Netflix &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;You could binge-watch the entire first season of &#8216;Afterlife&#8217; instead of watching this show,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s a show about a man who wants to kill himself &#8217;cause his wife dies of cancer and it&#8217;s still more fun than this.&#8221;
&#8220;Spoiler alert, season two is on the way so in the end he obviously didn&#8217;t kill himself,&#8221; Gervais continued. &#8220;Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he&#8217;s your friend, but I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;

Ricky Gervais

Audience Response Makes It Clear: Golden Globe Viewers Want Ricky Gervais Back

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The 81st <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes">Golden Globes</a> aired Sunday night, and with that came some expected outcomes along with a few surprises.
Viewers expected “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Oppenheimer</a>” to own the night after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">blockbuster</a> biopic was nominated in eight categories. The Christopher Nolan drama was indeed a <a href="https://goldenglobes.com/">big winner</a>, taking home five awards, including Best Drama and Best Director.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Yorgos Lanthimos’ science fantasy black <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">comedy</a> “Poor Things,” which was inspired by “Frankenstein,” was the surprise winner over “Barbie” in the Best Comedy or Musical category.
“Barbie” made more than $1.4 billion worldwide, but that didn’t translate into wins at the Globes. The Greta Gerwig-directed project was nominated in nine categories but only had two wins in minor categories: Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Song for Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?”
One of the biggest surprise upsets for “Barbie” was losing Best Screenplay to “Anatomy of a Fall.” This decision comes on the heels of the Academy ruling that “Barbie” must compete in the Oscars later this year under the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oscars-committee-determines-barbie-is-an-adapted-screenplay-not-original">Adapted Screenplay category</a> rather than as an Original Screenplay, which they petitioned for.
Because “Barbie” nabbed the Box Office Achievement award, it left Taylor Swift high and dry with zero wins. Her “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film, which smashed records in the concert film genre, was only nominated in that single category. 
Other big success stories of the night included the HBO comedy-drama “Succession,” which earned four wins, including Best Drama. “Beef,” a Netflix limited series exploring the fallout of a road rage incident, also won in three categories.
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Lily Gladstone won Best Female Actor in a Drama for her portrayal of an Osage woman in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Emma Stone won Best Female Actor in a Comedy for “Poor Things.”
Paul Giamatti was named Best Actor in a Comedy for “The Holdovers” while Cillian Murphy won Best Actor in a Drama for “Oppenheimer.
“Succession” stars Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook won Best Male Actor and Best Female Actor in a TV Drama. Best Actor in a TV Musical or Comedy went to Jeremy Allen White for “The Bear” while Best Actress was awarded to Ayo Edibiri for her work on the same series.
The Globes had some drama several years ago pertaining to alleged sexism and racism. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was dissolved in the wake of the crisis, which led to the new show moving from NBC to CBS as the production fought to reclaim its place as the third-biggest award show of the year following the Oscars and Grammys.

Oppenheimer

‘Oppenheimer’ Dominates Golden Globes, ‘Barbie’ Underperforms, And Taylor Swift Gets Snubbed

'Oppenheimer' Dominates Golden Globes, 'Barbie' And Taylor Swift Snubbed

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedian">Comedian</a> Jo Koy blamed his writers for the bad jokes he made while hosting the 81st <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes">Golden Globes</a> ceremony Sunday night.
The 52-year-old Comedy Central mainstay was announced as a last-minute <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">hos</a>t after several other celebrities turned the gig down. Koy, whose real name is Joseph Glenn Herbert, also said the short prep time was one of the reasons his monologue didn’t land.
“The minute I signed the contract… I locked myself in a room and started binge-watching everything. While my family was clinking champagne glasses and ringing in the New Year, my family was watching ‘Oppenheimer,’” Koy said from the stage, per <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/golden-globes-host-jo-koy-booed-during-monologue-blames-writers-1234941800/">Rolling Stone</a>.
“I loved ‘Oppenheimer.’ I just got one complaint: [It] needed another hour, because I felt like it needed some more backstory. My New Year’s resolution for 2024 is to finish Oppenheimer in 2025. I love Oppenheimer — especially the first season.” 
The camera cut to the film’s director, Christopher Nolan, looking unamused, which prompted Koy to say, “That’s so stupid.”
The jokes didn’t get any better as the Golden Globes host compared two of the biggest films of the summer blockbuster season, which were both up for awards on Sunday.
“‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ are competing for cinematic box office achievement,” Koy said. “‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 724-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and ‘Barbie’ is based on a plastic doll with big boobies.” 
This line received audible boos from the audience, the outlet noted.
Koy added, “The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breath, cellulite, and flat feet — or what casting directors call ‘character actor.’”
That’s when the comedian blamed the lackluster jokes on his writing team.
“Some I wrote, some other people wrote,” Koy said in his own defense. “Yo, I got the gig ten days ago! You want a perfect monologue? Shut up! You’re kidding me, right? I wrote some of these, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”
Taylor Swift also didn’t look happy about getting roasted by Koy. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift&#8230; there’s just more to go to here,&#8221; he quipped.
The coverage cut to Swift making a face and taking a sip of her drink.
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Golden Globes Host Jo Koy Booed During Monologue, Blames Writers For Bad Jokes

The nominees for the 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes">Golden Globes</a> were announced Monday morning.
Unlike the Oscars, the Globes select the best of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movies</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">television</a> shows. This awards ceremony also separates film genres, with categories for best comedies and best dramas.
The show has not yet announced a host for the 2024 show. After some controversy about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-wont-air-golden-globes-due-to-hfpas-diversity-and-ethical-reforms">lack of diversity</a> and ethical practices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group responsible for the Globes, and resulting boycotts, the group took a pause in 2022. In 2023, comedian Jerrod Carmichael was the host.
According to a report from <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/10/entertainment/chris-rock-and-more-comedic-actors-decline-offers-to-host-the-golden-globes/index.html">CNN</a>, Chris Rock and several other prominent celebrities have declined to host the Golden Globes. The awards show is scheduled to air on January 7, 2024.
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Here is a <a href="https://goldenglobes.com/nominations/2024">complete list</a> of the nominees:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
“Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures)
“Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
“Maestro” (Netflix)
“Past Lives” (A24)
“The Zone of Interest” (A24)
“Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon)
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
“Barbie” (Warner Bros.)
“Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures)
“American Fiction” (MGM)
“The Holdovers” (Focus Features)
“May December” (Netflix)
“Air” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Best Director, Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper — “Maestro”
Greta Gerwig — “Barbie”
Yorgos Lanthimos — “Poor Things”
Christopher Nolan — “Oppenheimer”
Martin Scorsese — “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Celine Song — “Past Lives”
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture 
“Barbie” — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
“Poor Things” — Tony McNamara
“Oppenheimer” — Christopher Nolan
“Killers of the Flower Moon” — Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
“Past Lives” — Celine Song
“Anatomy of a Fall” — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama 
Bradley Cooper — “Maestro”
Cillian Murphy — “Oppenheimer”
Leonardo DiCaprio — “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Colman Domingo — “Rustin”
Andrew Scott — “All of Us Strangers”
Barry Keoghan — “Saltburn”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama 
Lily Gladstone — “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Carey Mulligan – “Maestro”
Sandra Hüller – “Anatomy of a Fall”
Annette Bening — “Nyad”
Greta Lee — “Past Lives”
Cailee Spaeny — “Priscilla”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Fantasia Barrino – “The Color Purple”
Jennifer Lawrence – “No Hard Feelings”
Natalie Portman – “May December”
Alma Pöysti – “Fallen Leaves”
Margot Robbie – “Barbie”
Emma Stone – “Poor Things”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Nicolas Cage — “Dream Scenario”
Timothée Chalamet — “Wonka”
Matt Damon — “Air”
Paul Giamatti — “The Holdovers”
Joaquin Phoenix — “Beau Is Afraid”
Jeffrey Wright — “American Fiction”
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture 
Willem Dafoe — “Poor Things”
Robert DeNiro — “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Robert Downey Jr. — “Oppenheimer”
Ryan Gosling — “Barbie”
Charles Melton — “May December”
Mark Ruffalo — “Poor Things”
Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture 
Emily Blunt — “Oppenheimer”
Danielle Brooks — “The Color Purple”
Jodie Foster — “Nyad”
Julianne Moore — “May December”
Rosamund Pike — “Saltburn”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph — “The Holdovers”
Best Television Series, Drama 
“1923” (Paramount+)
“The Crown” (Netflix)
“The Diplomat” (Netflix)
“The Last of Us” (HBO)
“The Morning Show” (Apple TV+)
“Succession” (HBO)
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy 
“The Bear” (FX)
“Ted Lasso” (Apple TV+)
“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
“Jury Duty” (Amazon Freevee)
“Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)
“Barry” (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Pedro Pascal — “The Last of Us”
Kieran Culkin — “Succession”
Jeremy Strong — “Succession”
Brian Cox — “Succession”
Gary Oldman — “Slow Horses”
Dominic West — “The Crown”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama 
Helen Mirren — “1923”
Bella Ramsey — “The Last of Us”
Keri Russell — “The Diplomat”
Sarah Snook — “Succession”
Imelda Staunton — “The Crown”
Emma Stone — “The Curse”
Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy 
Ayo Edebiri — “The Bear”
Natasha Lyonne — “Poker Face”
Quinta Brunson — “Abbott Elementary”
Rachel Brosnahan — “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Selena Gomez — “Only Murders in the Building”
Elle Fanning – “The Great”
Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy 
Bill Hader — “Barry”
Steve Martin — “Only Murders in the Building”
Martin Short — “Only Murders in the Building”
Jason Segel — “Shrinking”
Jason Sudeikis — “Ted Lasso”
Jeremy Allen White — “The Bear”
Best Supporting Actor, Television 
Billy Crudup — “The Morning Show”
Matthew Macfadyen — “Succession”
James Marsden — “Jury Duty”
Ebon Moss-Bachrach — “The Bear”
Alan Ruck — “Succession”
Alexander Skarsgård — “Succession”
Best Supporting Actress, Television 
Elizabeth Debicki — “The Crown”
Abby Elliott — “The Bear”
Christina Ricci — “Yellowjackets”
<ol>
<li> Smith-Cameron — “Succession”</li>
</ol>
Meryl Streep — “Only Murders in the Building”
Hannah Waddingham — “Ted Lasso”
Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 
“Beef”
“Lessons in Chemistry”
“Daisy Jones &amp; the Six”
“All the Light We Cannot See”
“Fellow Travelers”
“Fargo”
Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 
Matt Bomer — “Fellow Travelers”
Sam Claflin — “Daisy Jones &amp; the Six”
Jon Hamm — “Fargo”
Woody Harrelson — “White House Plumbers”
David Oyelowo — “Lawmen: Bass Reeves”
Steven Yeun — “Beef”
Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 
Riley Keough — “Daisy Jones &amp; the Six”
Brie Larson — “Lessons in Chemistry”
Elizabeth Olsen — “Love and Death”
Juno Temple — “Fargo”
Rachel Weisz — “Dead Ringers”
Ali Wong — “Beef”
Best Original Score, Motion Picture 
Ludwig Göransson — “Oppenheimer”
Jerskin Fendrix — “Poor Things”
Robbie Robertson — “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Mica Levi — “The Zone of Interest”
Daniel Pemberton — “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Joe Hisaishi — “The Boy and the Heron”
Best Picture, Non-English Language 
“Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon) — France
“Fallen Leaves” (Mubi) — Finland
“Io Capitano” (01 Distribution) — Italy
“Past Lives” (A24) — United States
“Society of the Snow” (Netflix) — Spain
“The Zone of Interest” (A24) — United Kingdom
Best Original Song, Motion Picture 
“Barbie” — “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas
“Barbie” — “Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
“She Came to Me” — “Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” — “Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, and John Spiker
“Barbie” — “I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
“Rustin” — “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz
Best Motion Picture, Animated 
“The Boy and the Heron” (GKids)
“Elemental” (Disney)
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures)
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Universal Pictures)
“Suzume” (Toho Co.)
“Wish” (Disney)
Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy or Television
Ricky Gervais — “Ricky Gervais: Armageddon”
Trevor Noah — “Trevor Noah: Where Was I”
Chris Rock — “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage”
Amy Schumer — “Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact”
Sarah Silverman — “Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love”
Wanda Sykes — “Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer”
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
“Barbie” (Warner Bros.)
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Disney)
“John Wick: Chapter 4” (Lionsgate Films)
“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount Pictures)
“Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures)
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures)
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Universal Pictures)
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” (AMC Theatres)

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No one is watching awards shows like they used to.
In mid-January, the Golden Globes only managed to draw 6.3 million television viewers, representing the lowest numbers in several years and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-diversity-efforts-golden-globes-ratings-tank-for-2023-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">26% decrease</a> in audience compared to 2021. That particular awards show has been plagued by controversy for years as critics accused the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of being racist. 
But no one watched the ceremony even after they spent a full year fine-tuning diversity initiatives.
The Globes are not the only awards show suffering from a chronic lack of viewers. In September, the 74th Annual Emmy Awards attracted a mere 5.9 million eyes, a huge 25% drop from the previous year’s show. The event, touted as “television’s biggest night,” fell short of expectations in 2022.
Meanwhile, even the glitz and glamor of the Oscars wasn’t enough to draw people in like it has in the past. The 94th Academy Awards <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-least-watched-oscars-in-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was a huge fail</a> as it represents the second-least watched Oscars in the history of the show since Nielsen started tracking viewers in the mid-1970s.
There was a time when major broadcasts like the Academy Awards attracted an audience second only to the Super Bowl. So what’s going on with awards shows? Are TV watchers just over it?
There are several explanations for what’s going on and most of them aren’t pandemic related. But the pause in live broadcasts did affect viewership numbers and those people realized they don’t miss watching enough to tune back in.
“Once you’ve broken the habit, it’s hard to get them back,” said Preston Beckman, a media consultant who worked previously at Fox and NBC, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-04-13/oscars-grammys-awards-shows-ratings-struggling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the LA Times of people abandoning awards shows.
The same article noted that members of the 18 to 49 demographic, which they identified as the most attractive to advertisers, are not interested in live broadcasts the same way previous generations were. These viewers are hooked on streaming services, and while that may mean missing out on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on live TV, there’s always Twitter and thousands of follow-up memes to catch them up on what happened.
There’s a consensus among viewers that these shows are long, boring, and unnecessary. Even TV and movie fans who put value in which projects win don’t care to spend three hours of their lives waiting to find out the results.
Further, awards shows aren’t doing themselves any favors by nominating obscure, niche films that most people haven’t heard of. Would-be viewers are less likely to watch because they don’t agree that these are the best entertainment being created.
“As social media has risen, awards shows generally have declined because award shows represent a very top-down structure. ‘We, institution, will tell you, customer, what it is that you should like,’” Berklee College of Music professor George Howard <a href="https://bunewsservice.com/the-death-of-awards-shows-do-people-no-longer-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> BU News Service of why people were tuning out. “Now, that’s been inverted, where it’s ‘we, customer, will tell you, institution, what we like.’”
And let’s not forget one of the most common complaints about watching millionaires hand each other gold statues, a sentiment which rubs some people wrong even when the economy is healthy.
“The problem is, the big stars are completely dependent on the institution, so they have to play along with the charade that is totally self-congratulatory and totally divorced from any type of reality in order to keep the gravy train going,” Howard observed. “People, frankly, do not care.”
There’s another important problem with awards shows that the media rarely talks about. As the industry becomes increasingly politicized, celebrities are using awards speeches as a platform to broadcast their Left-wing talking points, which is in turn alienating half their potential audience. Viewers are sick of being lectured, so they’re simply not watching anymore.
Even the LA Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-04-13/oscars-grammys-awards-shows-ratings-struggling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> this was a major culprit for the viewership decline, writing, “some audience members don’t want to hear stars presenting their political positions on the programs.”
Awards show organizers have been working hard to bring the audience back. In 2020, the HFPA invited Ricky Gervais to host the Golden Globes, knowing he’d be controversial enough to attract viewers on both sides of the political spectrum.
The British comedian absolutely skewered members or “woke” Hollywood, telling jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Prince Andrew, and MeToo while movie stars like Tom Hanks looked on with looks of pure shock on their faces.
&#8220;You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,&#8221; he told the gathered crowd of celebrities. &#8220;You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.&#8221;
“If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and f*** off,” he said. “You say you&#8217;re woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you&#8217;d call your agent, wouldn&#8217;t you?”
Gervais isn’t conservative, but it had been so long since liberals allowed honest jokes that viewers immediately branded him that way.
“How the f*** can teasing huge corporations and the richest, most privileged people in the world be considered right-wing?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1214328382298755072?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wondered</a> on Twitter.
Predictably, Gervais wasn’t invited back to host the Globes. But it’s unclear if a provocative host would do anything to delay the continuing slow death march of the once mighty award show genre.
The reality is that ABC, CBS, and NBC all pay extraordinary licensing fees to broadcast these awards shows. If viewership continues declining, there could come a point when the networks consider it too costly to keep them just for nostalgia’s sake.
And if they went away, would anyone care that much?

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Awards Shows Are Dying, But Does Anyone Care?

This year’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes">Golden Globe Awards</a> were back after a diversity-related controversy last year, but it only managed to attract 6.3 million <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">television</a> viewers, representing the lowest numbers in several years and a 26% decrease from 2021.
This year’s broadcast narrowly avoided the worst-ever viewership, which occurred in 2008 during the Hollywood writers&#8217; strike. 
Per Nielsen <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/golden-globes-ratings-2023-nbc-1235482220/">data</a>, the program averaged between 17 million and 20 million viewers during its heyday between 2010 and 2020. Those numbers even came close to Academy Award viewing in 2019, making it a contender to become the most-watched <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">awards show</a>, and in 2020 the Globes boasted 18.3 million viewers. 
But then two events eviscerated the broadcast, and so far, it hasn’t recovered.
The COVID pandemic affected those growing numbers. The 2021 Globes hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler drew a mere 6.9 million viewers and a 1.5 rating among adults 18-49. The bicoastal, virtual event failed to draw viewers like it had in the past. 
Then in 2022, NBC decided not to air the program following accusations of a lack of diversity and inclusion in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The HFPA hosted last year’s Globes as a private ceremony at the Beverly Hilton and didn’t have any nominees in attendance. It also vowed to make changes to the organization. 
This year marked a return to normalcy with the show live and in person, plus aired on NBC again. The HFPA instituted new diversity standards and selected black comedian Jerrod Carmichael as the host. He opened his monologue by addressing why he was hired.
“I’ll tell you why I’m here. I’m here because I’m black,” Carmichael <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-here-because-im-black-golden-globes-host-jerrod-carmichael-opens-monologue-with-blunt-joke">joked</a> before referencing the alleged racism of the HFPA in the past. 
“This show, the Golden Globe Awards, did not air last year because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single black member until George Floyd died,” he continued. “So do with that information what you will.”
One explanation for the poor viewership is that The Globes used to take place on Sunday nights, so fans could have been unaware the ceremony was airing on a Tuesday evening. Social media was filled with reactions that indicated they had no idea it was on.
Also, award show viewership overall is down industry-wide. In September, the 74th Annual Emmy Awards saw a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-years-emmy-awards-viewership-hit-a-new-record-low">steep decline</a> in viewership when just 5.9 million people tuned in for “television’s biggest night.” This represented a 25% decrease compared to the previous year.
Even the Academy Awards isn&#8217;t attracting the audience it used to. While last year’s show in March represented a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-least-watched-oscars-in-history">58% increase</a> compared to the previous year, it was still the second-lowest viewership in the awards show history.

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