The Emmy Awards Show

[Ramone45]

I didn't watch it this year. I'm not really into these types of shows, mostly because I've never seen most of the programs.
In the commercials for the show, Stephen Colbert looks embalmed.
My impression from watching in the past, and also from the reaction of friends who actually watched the show is that it's too political.
My impression is that the Entertainment Industry in general is so totally out of touch with it's audience. I think it's costing them.
I know for sure that ESPN is circling the drain.
I understand egoism is a good quality for entertainers, but most of their audience doesn't care what they "think".
They talk about all this injustice, but they literally live in a land of make-believe.

 

[TalkRadio]

Emmys devolves into three hour celebrity anti-Trump rage fest

The 2017 Emmys certainly lived up to its billing as being the most politically charged ever.

Within seconds, host Stephen Colbert, singing an opening number themed around how seemingly out of control world events are, took a few soft jabs at President Trump. But then Julia-Louis Dreyfus quickly upped the ante, joining in and singing, “Imagine if your president wasn’t loved by Nazis.”

Once the monologue actually began, Colbert dedicated almost five minutes to mocking Trump. The stage thus set, politics pervaded almost the entirety of the broadcast.

With virtually every presenter or award recipient working in at least one political reference, those who avoided politics were more notable than those who didn't.

https://news.grabien.com/story-emmys-devolves-two-hours-celebrity-political-posturing

 

[Rightguide]

I never watch these award shows where the most radical of America's current domestic enemies are patted on the back by other domestic enemies and has-beens. With the exception of the Academy Awards and the Democrat National Convention, no greater assembly of certifiably brain dead liberals exists.

 

[thehaircutgirl]

I never watch these award shows where the most radical of America's current domestic enemies are patted on the back by other domestic enemies and has-beens. With the exception of the Academy Awards and the Democrat National Convention, no greater assembly of certifiably brain dead liberals exists.

i agree with you on that point. the way they were all chummy with spicer was an abomination. patting him on the back and such was deplorable.

 

[Hypoxia]

I didn't watch it this year. I'm not really into these types of shows, mostly because I've never seen most of the programs.
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My impression is that the Entertainment Industry in general is so totally out of touch with it's audience. I think it's costing them.

I don't watch telly. I read reports. Maybe I'll play the Colbert clip. Later.

Meanwhile, I'd argue that the entertainment industry in toto is VERY in touch with its audience, or with at least enough audience segments to survive. If you don't serve your audience, they go away, and you starve. These folks don't look to be starving so I guess they connect pretty well with viewers and the sponsors they sell them to.

That's what it's all about, y'know. Money. Grab eyeballs and sell them to advertisers. HOW you grab eyeballs doesn't matter; that's only technique, designing the clickbait. Viewers react to sex, violence, chases, arguments, and hidden triggers, so that's what they get. Any denunciation of content only grabs more eyeballs, sucks-in more money for the corporate owners.

But I digress. Emmy-qualified TV is big money. Oscar-qualified cinema is big money. Grammy-qualified music is big money. But they're all dwarfed by the money in games. By that metric, game producers are most in touch with audiences.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Such angst in here.
Did anyone actually watch the Emmy Awards telecast?
Or are we simply offering opinions?
I didn't watch it, but then again I seldom watch TV.

 

[Queersetti]

Such angst in here.
Did anyone actually watch the Emmy Awards telecast?
Or are we simply offering opinions?
I didn't watch it, but then again I seldom watch TV.

Of course, I watched it. Stereotypes don't invent themselves, ya know.

Entertainment is the most successful export business this country has. They ought to have more say in running things, not less.

But, Jesus Christ, what the fuck was Reese Witherspoon wearing, a fucking trench coat?

 

[phrodeau]

"Once someone told me that when you die, you don't remember a bill that Congress passed or a decision the Supreme Court made or an address made by the President. You remember a song, you remember a line from a movie. You remember a play, you remember a book, a painting, a poem. What we do is important." --- Alec Baldwin

 

[BB4evah]

Prelim Ratings For Emmys Predict New Record … Low.:d

 

[water505]

I have zero interest watching self important people lavish praise on each other whose only talent is their physical appearance or ability to memorize words written by someone else.

But I would fuck Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Of course, I watched it. Stereotypes don't invent themselves, ya know.

Entertainment is the most successful export business this country has. They ought to have more say in running things, not less.

But, Jesus Christ, what the fuck was Reese Witherspoon wearing, a fucking trench coat?

Pfft, you're beyond stereotypical. You're iconic.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

"Once someone told me that when you die, you don't remember a bill that Congress passed or a decision the Supreme Court made or an address made by the President. You remember a song, you remember a line from a movie. You remember a play, you remember a book, a painting, a poem. What we do is important." --- Alec Baldwin

Not the human beings you loved, family, friends? Not you life experiences? Instead we're going to savor a movie quote?

Please tell me you made this up. Or copied from The Onion. Or that Alec Baldwin only has morons speaking to him.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Not the human beings you loved, family, friends? Not you life experiences? Instead we're going to savor a movie quote?

Please tell me you made this up. Or copied from The Onion. Or that Alec Baldwin only has morons speaking to him.

In that case my final words will be "Smile, you son of a bitch."

 

[doctor_insanus]

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/250x250/76010730/heres-to-swimmin-with-bowlegged-women.jpg

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

In that case my final words will be "Smile, you son of a bitch."

Mine will be "No one puts baby in a corner."

 

[thehaircutgirl]

Not the human beings you loved, family, friends? Not you life experiences? Instead we're going to savor a movie quote?

Please tell me you made this up. Or copied from The Onion. Or that Alec Baldwin only has morons speaking to him.

he didn't say those were the only things. he was comparing two different things while you introduced a third that wasn't relevant to the first two.

 

[Libsam]

Ah, yes, Alec "Socrates" Baldwin

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

he didn't say those were the only things. he was comparing two different things while you introduced a third that wasn't relevant to the first two.

So that was a fake quote? I didn't introduce anything, I only quoted someone else? Note my disbelief when I quoted it.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

Ah, yes, Alec "Socrates" Baldwin

I laughed pretty heartily at this.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The ratings are in and clearly the Hollywood Left is making the same mistakes as the NFL and ESPN.


People turn to them for escape and they bombard their audience with politics.


It's not even an issue of their Left-leaning bias.


Politics is entertainment for so few...

 

[Que]

In that case my final words will be "Smile, you son of a bitch."

Mine will be, "I thought you'd be bigger. . ."

 

[Ramone45]

I see that Saturday Night Live won some Emmy's. To me that sounds like a reward for satirizing Donald Trump. Think that show is unfunny, and I'm amazed it's still on the air. I guess it must be cheap to put on and they don't have any other garbage to replace it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Of course it was...


Victor Davis Hanson had some brutal commentary of the history of Hollywood romanticizing the South. I have a link in Wat's thread this morning; you can find it over at National Review Online. Those people should be ashamed of themselves. Not exactly on topic, but an example of how fickle that crowd can be.

They should call it The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate awards.

 

[water505]

Ah, yes, Alec "Socrates" Baldwin

Wasn't he the turd whose daughter recorded him on the telephone calling her a cunt?

Sounds like one of Lit's most repugnant posters.

 

[water505]

The ratings are in and clearly the Hollywood Left is making the same mistakes as the NFL and ESPN.


People turn to them for escape and they bombard their audience with politics.


It's not even an issue of their Left-leaning bias.


Politics is entertainment for so few...

They're self-proclaimed messiahs who believe their art is the most important thing in the world.