For the second year in a row, the Academy Awards will have no host, confirming that the Academy’s attempt to cancel Kevin Hart has permanently backfired. If accepting the hosting gig ensures the woke mob will turn over every stone in your past to paint you as problematic, why would anyone want the job? It’s likely that the Oscars will never gain a host again.
But if anyone can make us miss a specific host, it’s Ricky Gervais. The comedian, fresh off of his expert excoriation of Hollywood during the Golden Globes, took to Twitter to share how he would start his opening monologue if tapped to host the Oscars.
“I can’t wait to hear all your inspirational speeches about equality, and it’s great that the 3 hours you’re here tonight is the only time your badly paid migrant house staff will get some time off to sleep this week” https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) February 9, 2020
“It’s great to see such diversity in the room tonight. Rich sex pests of all shapes and sizes” https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) February 9, 2020
Gervais already quit while he was ahead, announcing that this year’s Golden Globes would be his last, and if the Academy couldn’t stomach the slightly politically incorrect Hart, there’s no way they’d let Gervais host the Oscars. But the Brit perfectly distilled how the only kind of humor that lands in our deeply unserious times is self-deprecating.
Consider, Oscar attendees are not only claiming that we’re on the breach of the apocalypse because of the Orange Man in the Oval as they live in the best place in the best time in human history. They’re sipping on Cristal and munching on caviar as they’re doing it. No one, except for the left-wing presidential candidates they love, expects successful celebrities to resign themselves to asceticism, but a little self-awareness about plutocratic prosperity could help. And rather than wax on about wokeness and women not receiving enough Oscar nods, perhaps they could try a little penance for their protection of the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.
But of course, that would actually be entertainment, a commodity hard to find in Hollywood these days.
