Host Seth Meyers: Golden Globes Will be Political
“Trump holds the keys to us not talking about him, which would to be to just behave differently.”
1.3.2018
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The 75th annual Golden Globe Awards show approaches this Sunday, and this year's host Seth Meyers has hinted that it will be just as tone-deaf as other heavily-politicized Hollywood awards programs.
The host of Late Night With Seth Meyers has reassured his fans that his Golden Globes hosting gig will be politically charged, according to Fox News.
Meyers revealed to People magazine that his opening monologue will include the juvenile, leftist political humor that has helped his show stay afloat. But considering how Hollywood's smug , hypocritical moralizing during recent awards shows has contributed to plunging ratings and a backlash from the flyover country which celebs hold in such contempt, maybe he and his fellow coastal elites should wise up and concentrate on entertaining audiences rather than alienating them.
As for the political content of the upcoming show, Meyers says he will focus more on the sexual harassment scandals that have rocked Hollywood lately:
“With the monologue, as far as talking about anything in the news right now, it seems like this year more than ever Hollywood has its own internal politics that obviously deserve to be talked about. Going into it our focus is far more on the worlds that make these films and less on anything that’s happening in Washington.”
But Fox News notes that this doesn’t mean President Trump won't also be a predictable target.
“He holds the keys to us not talking about him, which would to be to just behave differently,” Meyers said of Trump. (Maybe Meyers is a funny guy after all, because it's amusing to hear the clueless hypocrites in Hollywood lecturing anyone on behavior.) “But while he continues on this path, we’ll continue on ours.”
And that path will take the Golden Globes off a ratings cliff, as Hollywood continues to politicize its way toward self-destruction.
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