As host of the 77th Annual DGA Awards Saturday night time, Judd Apatow laid into Trump, Elon Musk, Mars, and a lot extra.
His monologue opened to raucous laughter from the viewers when he defined the distinction between the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ang Lee and himself. “In the identical 12 months, 2005, Ang Lee made the groundbreaking film Brokeback Mountain, I made The 40-Yr-Previous Virgin, which featured two guys saying, ‘You know the way I do know you’re homosexual?’ for a stable 5 minutes,” stated Apatow. “That’s the reason he’s being honored and I’m internet hosting for the sixth time.”
Although the night time is a celebration of movie, it wouldn’t be an Apatow speech with out dabbling “just a bit” into politics, notably when there’s a chance to take a number of pot pictures at Trump. “We’re all just a little liable for our nation turning into so conservative. We liberals might have alienated our audiences by being too woke,” he stated earlier than suggesting some attainable new tasks that may attraction to the “MAGA crowd”, reminiscent of “The Actual Housewives of January 6th”.
“Or we go the opposite method, we go laborious in opposition to Trump,” he continued. “Let’s all go tremendous double woke. I’m going to make Dune 3 with all homosexual sandworms.”
Apatow additionally turned his consideration to Elon Musk and his plans to journey to area and colonize Mars. “He’s going to ask individuals on the ship and he’ll have the Trumps, and RFK and Brett Kavanaugh, Jeff Bezos and Zuckerberg they usually’re going to all get on a ship they usually’re going to go off to Mars,” he stated to applause.
“Then, we’re right here again on Earth and we understand we don’t miss them. We don’t want cryptocurrency, we don’t want AI, and consequently the setting will get higher. And sooner or later we glance up on the sky and we will see the celebrities. And sooner or later, MTV will begin displaying music movies once more… and then you definitely discover out their dream got here true,” he concluded. “By leaving Earth, they made America nice once more.”
