The Emmy Awards are still around? Apparently so, but that doesn’t mean too many people are watching the ceremony.
According to The Wrap, the 70th annual Emmy Awards slumped 10 percent from last year, recording a new all-time low with a 7.4 household rating. While the decline is not as large the 16 percent for the Academy Awards and the 20 percent for the Grammys, it is still significant.
From the website:
Last year, the 69th annual Emmys on CBS hosted by Stephen Colbert dipped 2.4 percent from the prior year to a new low, per Nielsen’s household ratings. That 8.2 overnight rating was imperfect, however, as the Miami and Fort Myers markets were never reported due to Hurricane Irma. This time around we are missing the Raleigh-Durham market due to Hurricane Florence.
In 2016, the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted Emmys broadcast on ABC fetched an 8.4 in these earliest-available TV ratings, which had set a historic low of its own at the time.
This shouldn’t really be surprising.
All of these asinine award shows have become political, leaning heavily to the left. It seems like every celebrity that attends feels the need to make a political statement, make a lame Trump joke, or declare that it is the end of the republic.
Yuck.
The humor just isn’t funny. The Daily Wire had some of them, but here are two so-called jokes that really don’t have a punchline:
“The only white people who thank Jesus are Republicans and ex-crackheads.”
“The Emmys were first held in 1949 … things were very different back then: We all agreed that Nazis were bad.”
Where’s the beef?
If you didn’t waste brain cells watching the Emmys, then Mark Dice has a great summary for you:
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