DGA Awards Host Judd Apatow Takes Aim at Trump, Lively v. Baldoni and Himself: ‘I’m What Mel Brooks Would Look Like If He Took the Substance’
variety.comCynthia Littleton Business Editor Judd Apatow took aim at President Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, the “It Ends With Us” litigation spree and himself in his opening monologue Saturday at the 77th annual DGA Awards.
Apatow, of course, riffed on how the country has taken a sharp turn to the right since the last DGA Awards, and he gently poked fun at Hollywood for its eager embrace of diversity and boundary-pushing issues that are now in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and his far-right brigade of reformers. “My new pronouns are ‘We’re f—ed,’ ” Apatow said from the stage of the Beverly Hilton.
The multihyphenate filmmaker and TV producer hosted the DGA Awards for the third year in a row, and the sixth time since 2018.
Apatow talked about the box office success of “Wicked,” the Universal musical that became a juggernaut over the holiday season and has been an awards darling. “Usually to make this much money you have to sue Blake Lively,” Apatow said, a nod to the fierce battle over behavior on the set of the 2024 film “It Ends With Us” that erupted in December between star Blake Lively and director-star Justin Baldoni.
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