How Greg Gutfeld Became the Bill Maher of Fox News — And Toppled Fallon and Colbert in the Ratings
variety.comKarla Sofía Gascón’s old social media posts, with shocking takes on George Floyd (“a drug addict swindler”) and Islam (“an infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured”), are roiling awards season and have turned the actress into a pariah.
But the “Emilia Pérez” star, the first openly trans person nominated for an acting Oscar, is also a tricky subject to satirize.
Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have ignored the conflagration that has engulfed this year’s standard-bearing #Resistance film.
The task is left to Greg Gutfeld, whose eponymous Fox News show has made him the most-watched man in late night. During a taping of his top-rated “Gutfeld!,” he scrolls through the offending tweets and booms dramatically, “The more I read of these, the more I’m starting to like this broad.” The actress may have caught a stray here, but the real target of his monologue is Hollywood. “Gascón’s movie got all those nominations because she ticked the box, and now those who obediently nominated her are boxed in themselves,” he continues with relish. “Her co-stars are distancing themselves from her like Alec Baldwin at a gun range. … And now identity politics has forced them to tear her down.
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