{"id":187934,"date":"2021-03-03T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187934"},"modified":"2021-03-03T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:30:11","slug":"no-more-ricky-ratings-for-woke-golden-globes-crash-spectacularly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-more-ricky-ratings-for-woke-golden-globes-crash-spectacularly\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Ricky: Ratings For Woke Golden Globes Crash Spectacularly"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-more-ricky-ratings-for-woke-golden-globes-crash-spectacularly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gervais.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Despite lockdown measures across the country, the ratings for the woke 2021 Golden Globes couldn\u2019t catch a break: the star-studded event saw a viewership crash of a stunning 64%.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cJust 6.9 million people tuned in to the Golden Globes\u00a0<\/span>on Sunday, according to Nielsen ratings,\u201d <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APEntertainment\/status\/1366867246761525253\">reported<\/a> Tuesday, noting that the<\/span>\u00a0anemic viewership \u201cbarely beat the year when a writer\u2019s strike forced NBC to show a news conference announcing the winners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s award show was notably hosted by politically incorrect comedian and actor Ricky Gervais, who took repeated swipes at Hollywood. The ratings for that show, with 18.4 million viewers, more than doubled the 2021 show, co-hosted by the woke Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.<\/p>\n<p>The AP reported that\u00a0NBC \u201canticipated a ratings bloodbath,\u201d noting that Americans are \u201csick of Zoom meetings\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-62 Component-p-0-2-53\"><em>\u201cFor a country sick of Zoom meetings, most of the nominees appeared remotely and there was no red carpet. Some stars dressed for the occasion, others didn\u2019t bother. \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 star Jason Sudeikis wore a sweatshirt for his acceptance speech.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The seeming excuse from AP withstanding, streaming services have seen a massive boost during the pandemic. Yahoo! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/pandemic-boosts-spending-streaming-services-131801891.html\">reported<\/a> last month:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Video streaming services have had a great 2020 thanks to the pandemic that kept millions at home with no other option for entertainment but watching videos online. Moreover, the pandemic also coincided with the launch of a number of video streaming services, which cashed in on the situation by immediately adding millions of subscribers that gave a boost to their revenues.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Yahoo! reported, the average American viewer by December was paying about $9 more in subscription fees than they were in April.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Americans are seemingly watching more TV, but apparently the Globes were not a top priority for them this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fey and Poehler, during their opening monologue, addressed a diversity controversy among the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/02\/tina-fey-amy-poehler-2021-golden-globes-monologue-video-1234702939\/\">Deadline<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Addressing the white elephant in the room, Fey and Poehler called out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) as \u201c90 international no Black journalists\u201d who \u201cattend movie junkets in search of a better life.\u201d The hosts barely attempted to get laughs out of their concession that the Globes nominate \u201ca lot of flashy garbage\u201d or that the awards \u201care all a scam invented by Big Red Carpet,\u201d and went entirely serious when Fey said the HFPA has no Black members.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou gotta change that,\u201d Fey said, seeming to hold out hope for a better next year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gervais took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ricky-gervais-on-his-seismic-golden-globes-speech-people-were-tired-of-the-hypocrisy\">different approach<\/a>:\u00a0roasting the liberal Hollywood elite for their woke posturing while living degenerate lives, highlighting friendships with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to shady business deals with communist China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do win an award tonight, don\u2019t use it as a political platform to make a political speech,\u201d Gervais <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ricky-gervais-on-his-seismic-golden-globes-speech-people-were-tired-of-the-hypocrisy\">told<\/a> Hollywood. \u201cYou\u2019re 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 \u2014 and f*** off, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/golden-globe-committee-under-fire-for-lack-of-diversity\">Golden Globe Committee Under Fire For Lack Of\u00a0Diversity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite lockdown measures across the country, the ratings for the woke 2021 Golden Globes couldn\u2019t catch a break: the star-studded event saw a viewership crash of a stunning 64%. \u201cJust &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274642,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gervais.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"No More Ricky: Ratings For Woke Golden Globes Crash Spectacularly","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Gervais.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"No More Ricky: Ratings For Woke Golden Globes Crash Spectacularly","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}