Joel Kim Booster Hopes To Bring Levity To WGA Awards West Coast Ceremony After Years Of Strife For Writers
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Joel Kim Booster just wants to make people laugh — and if anyone could use a moment of levity right now, its film and TV writers.
The comedian is set to host the 77th Writers Guild of America Awards‘ west coast ceremony on Saturday (joined by Roy Wood Jr.
on the east coast), because, in his own words, “I am a classically trained gay guy, so I love award shows.” That, and he’s hoping to provide a bit of reprieve from the tough few years that many in Hollywood have faced, from production shutdowns to dual strikes to the devastating wildfires that kicked off the year.
Most importantly, he’s looking forward to the opportunity to celebrate his own union membership. “I think that we saw sort of the strength of our union throughout the strike we went through a couple years ago,” he tells Deadline, adding that he thinks a strong labor movement will be “our best tool for fighting against our country becoming even more of an oligarchy than it already is.” Booster will be joined at Saturday’s Los Angeles ceremony, by a powerful list of presenters that includes Utkarsh Ambudkar, Eric Bauza, Clancy Brown, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ernie Hudson, Diarra Kilpatrick, Thomas Lennon, Franklin Leonard, and Luke Tennie.
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