DGA Awards Host Judd Apatow Takes On Dual Strikes, Fran Drescher As “The Voice Of Reason”, M&As & Byron Allen In Opening Monologue Cut Off To Press Room

Refresh for more. If there’s a holy grail of awards opening monologues, it’s Judd Apatow‘s at the DGA Awards.

In typical fashion, the filmmaker who is known for his killer Bill Cosby impersonation, took the mic for the fifth time to host the DGA Awards — with the opening monologue cut off to the press room. Don’t ask why that is in a post Trump era political environment.

Apatow won over the room with his jokes about how hasty the DGA came to an agreement with the AMPTP, M&As and how Byron Allen could be the ultimate buyer of all media companies, and SAG-AFTRA president as “the voice of reason” during the swamps of the strike.

In previous DGA monologues, Apatow has gone for the jugular in deriding Tom Cruise and his association with Scientology to the fallen Harvey Weinstein.

“What Harvey Weinstein ruined was robes,” joked Apatow back in in 2018, “If I wear one now, my wife is like ‘eww’.”

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