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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 231 | DEGRADING: Jimmy Kimmel BENDS THE KNEE to BLM at the Emmys

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Did you know the Emmy Awards were on Sunday? Neither did we! So, perhaps unsurprisingly, the award show had another consecutive year of record-low ratings. However, while it might seem unthinkable, the show did surpass its previous iterations in the amount of left-wing virtue-signaling, which was made all the sweeter with a cringe-inducing performance from host Jimmy Kimmel. Get the best shapewear for EVERY occasion - and get an ADDITIONAL 10% off: https://Shapermint.com/Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right. I'm Jack Grealish. I think you can listen to music from relaxing to

0:05.5

celebrating to getting yourself prepared. I like all sorts honestly I like hip-hop

0:10.8

R&B and then house music as well, so yeah, there's no guilty

0:14.2

fait around here. Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones, enjoying

0:19.2

his favorite music with more immersive sound than ever before.

0:23.2

Wow, music, so everything, isn't it?

0:25.4

Search Bose headphones.

0:27.6

Bose, sound is power. Hey guys welcome back to the show and thank you so much for tuning in and today we're going to be talking about the absolute train wreck that was this year's Emmys.

0:46.5

So if you didn't know, the Emmys is the award show for TV specifically, and this year it was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

0:53.0

And now as someone who is not a fan of award shows or Jimmy Kimmel personally,

0:59.0

the Emmys this year just didn't seem like a good time to me and I didn't watch them which is

1:04.2

apparently something that a lot of us altogether agreed on because this year's

1:08.8

Emmys were the lowest rated ever as one CNN article explains what if you threw a party one As one

1:15.0

generally praised by critics presented with no serious glitches in the midst of a pandemic

1:20.0

and relatively speaking nobody nobody showed up.

1:22.8

That's the puzzle facing the Television Academy

1:25.3

in the wake of another year of record low ratings

1:28.6

for the Emmy Awards.

1:30.0

Based on Nielsen data, the Emmys delivered 6.1 million viewers down about 12% from last year,

1:36.2

which experienced its own steeper dive from 2018.

1:39.7

That is interesting, but not really surprising news, and it does raise the question of why?

1:45.7

Why are so few people watching the Emmys nowadays?

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