{"id":2147117,"date":"2024-01-11T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/help-wanted-awards-show-host-why-no-one-wants-the-worst-gig-around\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:52:16","slug":"help-wanted-awards-show-host-why-no-one-wants-the-worst-gig-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/help-wanted-awards-show-host-why-no-one-wants-the-worst-gig-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Awards Show Host: Undesirable Gig, No Takers"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fhelp-wanted-awards-show-host-why-no-one-wants-the-worst-gig-around%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=2147117&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--><h2>What\u2019s the Toughest\u200c Job in Hollywood?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You might think it\u2019s handling PR chores for Jonathan Majors or Ezra Miller. Good guess, but wrong. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try hosting a major \u200bawards show telecast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u200d greats \u200cmade\u2064 it look easy in days gone by. Think Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, \u2064Billy Crystal, \u2063and Steve Martin. They entertained millions, kept the material clean, and enhanced the aura of the \u2062shows in question and\u2064 their comic brands.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, best \u2063of all? No one complained the next day about a joke that \u201cpunched down\u201d or targeted a protected\u2062 group or class.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now? It\u2019s the cruelest job in Tinsel Town, a gig with \u200dmore fine print than a bank loan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jo Koy \u200blearned\u2062 this lesson the hard way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The affable comic, known for humorously recreating his mother\u2019s life lessons on stage, is a serious\u200d stand-up draw. He routinely plays arenas, not clubs, and last year headlined his first feature comedy, \u201cEaster Sunday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He was an unconventional choice to host the recent Golden Globes telecast given he \u2063lacked the name recognition of more established stars, but he was hardly a poor selection on paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On stage was a different \u2062matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Koy only had\u200d two-plus weeks to prepare for the gig, but he \u2064didn\u2019t use \u2064that time\u200d wisely. His best jokes proved mediocre, he worked blue in amateurish fashion and, worst of all,\u2062 threw his writing team under the bus mid-monologue \u200cwhen he knew he was bombing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou want\u2062 a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. \u200cI wrote some of these, and those are the ones you\u2019re gonna laugh at.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s the kind of flop-sweat moment that\u2019s hard to forgive and forget, especially for his writing team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, naturally, critics skewered Koy\u2019s handiwork. The monologue also triggered Swiftie Nation, which\u200c howled over an\u200c innocent Koy quip about\u200d the NFL\u2019s wall-to-wall coverage of Taylor Swift\u2019s sudden interest in the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The joke \u200ddidn\u2019t even target Swift, but the fact that it was Swift-adjacent was more than\u200d enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Koy\u2019s troubles are hardly the only reason awards show gigs are so, to use the woke Left\u2019s terminology, \u201cproblematic.\u201d That helps explain why\u200d Chris Rock, Ali Wong, and the \u201cSmartless\u201d podcast trio \u200d\u2013 Jason Bateman, Will Arnett,\u200b and Sean\u200d Hayes \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/11\/entertainment\/golden-globes-2024-host-chris-rock-more-decline-offer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">turned the Globes hosting gig down previous to Koy.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wong may be\u2063 a rising star thanks to her stand-up chops\u2062 and sturdy work\u2062 in the Netflix series \u201cBeef,\u201d but she wisely stood down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rock, one\u2063 of the best stand-up comics around,\u2062 wants no part of the\u200b gig even though he handled the task twice already (the 2005 and 2016 Oscars). That was then, before Cancel Culture made every gag\u2064 a potential woke landmine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rock \u200balso declined the chance to host the 2023 Oscars, roughly a year after Will Smith slapped him on stage for telling a joke \u2062about the actor\u2019s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s become the new Hollywood badge of honor\u200d \u2013 turning down \u200dthe chance to host an awards gala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dwayne Johnson similarly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/why-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-turned-down-oscars-2019-host-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">declined the 2019 Oscars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2064ceremony gig, citing a prior engagement. Right. And he hasn\u2019t publicly campaigned for the gig since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comic superstar Kevin Hart famously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2020\/02\/kevin-hart-oscar-controversy-looking-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">landed the Oscar-hosting gig<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and lost it in record time \u200din 2018 after crude, decade-old gay\u2062 jokes \u201cresurfaced.\u201d The Oscars even went \u200chost-free for three straight years (2019-2021) following HartGate, an acknowledgment of how tricky the gig suddenly is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How many comedians could survive\u2062 the woke\u2062 vetting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s another reason comedians would rather bomb at a Hell\u2019s Kitchen bar than play to\u2062 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-jimmy-kimmel-attacked-for-white-privilege-emmy-gag\/\" title=\"Woke Jimmy Kimmel Attacked for \u201cWhite Privilege\u201d Emmy Gag\">awards show crowd<\/a>.\u2062 Said crowd keeps\u2064 getting smaller. Snagging an Emmy or \u2064Oscar-hosting gig\u200c once meant performing before a massive TV audience. That could\u2064 turn a comedian into a superstar overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Show ratings are generally on the decline, alas. Even the Globes, which enjoyed \u200ba strong uptick from the 2023 edition, is still far below recent years. The \u200c <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bradadgate\/2024\/01\/08\/audience-for-a-revamped-golden-globes-on-cbs-grew-50-to-94-million\/?sh=24d1c61e3417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 edition drew a hearty 18.4 million viewers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the final year before COVID-19 and scandals rocked the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then there\u2019s the expectations that go with the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That \u200cincludes using the bully pulpit to advance progressive causes. For veteran \u200chosts like Jimmy\u2063 Kimmel,\u2062 that\u2019s a no-brainer. It\u2019s what he does each night on ABC\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live.\u201d Others\u2063 may not feel \u2062as comfortable going \u2063in that direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It could \u2062explain why Johnson is steering clear of any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-ways-to-save-the-modern-awards-show\/\" title=\"10 Ways To Save The Modern Awards Show\">awards show stage<\/a>. He has political aspirations and doesn\u2019t want to trigger half the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Koy\u2019s monologue,\u2062 while a touch \u2062woke, \u2063avoided politics entirely. He\u2064 might have gotten\u200c a softer \u200blanding had he lobbed a few barbs at Donald Trump or other\u200c GOP\u2062 favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He would have gotten a bigger rhetorical beating if he took some swings at President Joe Biden, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u2063 only steady hosts these days come from late-night TV. Both Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah keep getting tapped for the gigs, from the Oscars to the Grammys. They\u2019re both aggressively liberal, which appeases the industry\u2019s tastemakers along with\u2064 media critics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each\u2064 lives in the belly of the Hollywood\u2063 beast, so\u2062 they understand how far they can push their quips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u2062 industry doesn\u2019t care if \u2062they gain or lose \u2063viewers. Ratings matter less than \u200dThe Hollywood-approved\u200b messaging. Why \u2064else hire deeply divisive comedians \u2063who chase Red State audiences away?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, if ratings truly mattered, Ricky Gervais would host \u200dthe Oscars and Dave Chappelle would tackle \u2064the \u200dEmmy and Grammy awards. The industry would rather play to\u2062 a smaller \u200bcrowd than give the public what it wants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Christian Toto is\u2063 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-scorching-south-park-episodes-that-left-a-mark\/\" title=\"8 Scorching \u2018South Park\u2019 Episodes That Left A Mark\">award-winning \u200djournalist<\/a>, movie critic, and editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HollywoodInToto.com<\/a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart\u2062 News\u2019 Big\u2064 Hollywood. Follow him at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollywoodInToto?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HollywoodInToto<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of \u2062the\u2063 author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How \u200bdoes \u200bhosting an awards show \u2062open someone up to scrutiny and criticism that could potentially harm their future career in politics?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Tical ambitions,\u200c and hosting an awards \u2062show could\u200c open him \u200dup to \u2063scrutiny and criticism that could potentially harm his \u2063future career\u2062 in politics. Similarly, Hart&#8217;s controversy\u2064 over past jokes shows how comedians are now held to a higher standard and\u200d are expected to be \u200dpolitically correct at all times. This pressure \u2063and expectation can make the job of hosting an awards\u2063 show incredibly challenging and risky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In conclusion, while \u2062Hollywood may \u2063have \u200cmany tough jobs, hosting a \u2062major awards show telecast \u200bis \u2064undoubtedly one of the toughest. The \u2062combination of intense\u200b scrutiny, \u2064the\u200c need to cater to a diverse and ever-changing \u200baudience, and the increasing pressure to \u2064be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/resident-evil-4-shows-the-problem-with-gamings-politically-correct-makeover\/\" title=\"\u2018Resident Evil 4\u2019 Shows The Problem With Gaming\u2019s Politically Correct Makeover\">politically correct make<\/a> it\u200c a challenging task that even some of the industry&#8217;s biggest stars are hesitant to take\u200c on. \u200dNevertheless, the allure of the job remains, as it can still be a \u200bplatform for comedians and entertainers to showcase their skills and potentially elevate their careers to\u200d new heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audience engaged, and flawlessly executed the show. However, the pressure and expectations are immense. Today, hosting a major awards show telecast is undoubtedly the toughest job in Hollywood, requiring exceptional wit, charm, and the ability to captivate a global audience while ensuring a seamless and unforgettable experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2147118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147117","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}