Jimmy Kimmel roasts Golden Globes as fake ‘nonsense,’ HFPA hits back

nypost.com:

Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe at the Golden Globes in a new interview with Rolling Stone — and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hit back.Kimmel, 55, was asked about the “no-holds-barred roast” approach to hosting award shows — popularized by Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes — and if it’s “representative of a growing hostility toward celebrity.”“I think there’s always been hostility toward celebrities,” Kimmel declared in the conversation published Wednesday.“First of all, the Golden Globes is not a real awards show.

Let’s be honest. I don’t think any of them are necessarily valid, but if there is one that is valid, it’s the Oscars and the ones where you’re voted on by your peers, like the SAG Awards, the Writer’s Guild Awards, and the Director’s Guild Awards.”He continued: “But the Globes are some foreign bike messengers who realized they’d get some free dinners if they decided to form this organization.

I don’t know why it took so long for the world to figure that out! I think perhaps the world didn’t want to figure that out.

We also know that if you have a trophy made, somebody’s gonna go up to take it.”“Trophies are like catnip for celebrities. We want them,” Kimmel claimed to Rolling Stone. “I’m not sure why we want them!