Oscars Prove They’re Out of Touch

It didn’t take long for the 89th Academy Awards to demonstrate how out-of-touch and lame the Hollywood ceremonies have become.

Despite many people on social media begging for the awards show to try something original and not go the predictable route of playing its humor to the extreme leftists in the room — host Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time in taking on President Donald Trump.

“I want to say thank you to President Trump. Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist? That’s gone, thanks to him,” joked Kimmel. How original and edgy.

If you thought the comedian would move on from the Trump-centric jokes and try for something original, then you’d be wrong.

“This broadcast is being watched by millions of Americans and around the world, 225 countries that now hate us, and I think that is an amazing thing,” he noted during his opening monologue.

If you thought the comedian would move on from the Trump-centric jokes and try for something original, then you’d be wrong.

“If you’re from CNN or the LA or New York Times, if you work for anything with the word ‘Times’ in it, even like Medieval Times, I’d like to ask you to leave the building right now, OK?” he said. “We have no tolerance for fake news. Fake tans we love, but [not] fake news.”

Kimmel also gave Meryl Streep an unneeded pat on the back when he referred to her anti-Trump remarks during the Golden Globes and how Trump accused her of being an “overrated” actress.

Kimmel said the “Florence Foster Jenkins” actress “has phoned it in for more than 50 films over the course of her lackluster career,” as the camera showed Streep smiling and laughing. Meanwhile, most of America failed to see Streep’s latest film. It didn’t even nab $30 million at the domestic box office, but Streep earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination because these days, she just needs to show up to get those.

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The highlighting of “Jenkins” brings up another issue many have with the awards show, which is how it highlights mostly unpopular art house films the majority of America chooses to skip. Previous Best Picture winners like “The Artist” and “Spotlight” hardly found any recognition beyond Tinseltown.

Forced, hollow, and unoriginal political humor that alienates half the country — mixed with a constant highlight of films few outside of Hollywood have even heard of — has led to an awards show that is becoming less and less relevant to most of America, no matter how hard it appears to try.