Sunday's Oscars telecast on ABC declined in the ratings again as the comedians -- both host Conan O'Brien and presenter Jimmy Kimmel -- drowned the event in a series of ridiculous anti-Trump jokes and comments.
Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com and MRC Video content creator Nick Kangadis take on the current state of Hollywood.
O’Brien sounded juvenile with his Trump Kennedy Center joke: “We’re coming to you live from the Has a Small Penis Theater. Let’s see him put his name in front of that!”
“As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which,” Kimmel said before announcing the nominees for best documentary short film. “Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS.”
The winner for Best Documentary argued you can lose your country to tyranny "through countless small little acts of complicity. When we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities. When we don’t say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it.
Spanish actor Javier Bardem felt compelled to drop a slogan: "Free Palestine!"
Ratings for the Oscars broadcast sunk below 18 million viewers, when it used to draw 50 or 60 million. Movie stars love to have a “platform” to launch their leftist attacks, but the platform is shrinking, as half the country tunes out. The drop was the first decline in audience in five years.
The big winners of the evening were the black-themed vampire movie Sinners and the leftist-boosting One Battle After Another. In a break with recent Oscars history, both movies performed well at the box office. Often, the nominees are movies that most of the Oscars audience hasn't seen yet.
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