With the 96th Academy Awards behind us, critics are saying the best political actor of the evening was Donald J. Trump. That, according to our HollyWeird insider, CJ Byner, has left the Left feeling cheated out of a win.
“Word on the Sunset Strip is that the Oscar producers are furious with Jimmy Kimmel,” dishes Byner—a voting member of the Academy and former production assistant for the 64th Oscars (hosted by comic genius Billy Crystal—ed). “Kimmel was landing more bombs during the 3-hour telecast than Israel on a Palestinian refugee camp.”
Byner dishes that the controversy began when Kimmel pressured the shows 16 writers to pen a hastily written joke about an Oscar critique that DJ Trump had posted on his social platform Truth Social only moments earlier.
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“The protocol is for all jokes to be vetted and approved by producers and directors prior to going on air. Kimmel ignored protocol and now they are fuming. He bullied the writers—who just spent months on an unpaid strike—to rubber stamp the hate-fueled gag.”
Much like 99.8% of Kimmel’s jokes it …. bombed!
“The audience was uncomfortable. I mean a Trump joke has become the lowest form of comedy,” heckles Byner. “Kimmel had been warned prior to the show to not go down that low-hanging fruit path, but his narcissism got in the way.”
Byner had warned GWU! readers about the tired Trump routine along with the winners, losers, and predictable presenters in advance of the show.
While mainstream media pundits ate the bit up like greedy backstage groupies at the Dolby Theater’s craft service table, others weren’t drinking the Kool Aid.
In fact, many, including left-wing movie fans, think that Kimmel gave a free plug to Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, as well as providing the former big boss on The Apprentice with more attention than the highlights of the night, such as Oppenheimer’s 7 wins and Ryan Gosling and Slash’s performance of “I’m Just Ken”—which both took a distant balcony seat to Kimmel’s below the belt jab.
Move your giant head Jimmy! We can’t see the show!
“Kimmel has an awful case of TDS,” says Byner. “He’s obsessed with everything the former president says and does. It’s very sad, extremely sad and small.” Byner motions with his hands in his signature Trump impression.
Critics of the Left such as youtuber Josiah Rises are saying that TDS sufferers like the entire cast of The View, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and now Kimmel will actually help give the former prez the publicity he needs to knock out dementia-addled Joe Biden from the top spot on Penn. Ave.
Should ABC just change it’s name to TDS?
“Kimmel’s cringe opener where he poked fun at Robert Downey Jr’s drug addiction in the 90s to Hailey Bieber’s strawberry glaze skin smoothie were so unbearable to sit through, there was nowhere for this washed-up shock jock to go, but down. His desperation is going to cost him a lot of future work.”
Despite the record setting 19.5 million viewers on host network ABC, due to fans of Barbie and Oppenheimer, Kimmel left a dull turd in the hands of everyone rather than a shiny Oscar.
“It was a terrible way to end the night,” concludes Byner. “I can’t imagine he’ll be invited back. Truthfully his low-brow comedy works better on a network late night show that nobody is watching.”
