‘Depressing’ Oscar Nominees Are ‘Like Traffic School on the

Bill Maher went on an prolonged rant concerning the “depressing” lineup of Best Picture nominees on the Oscars this yr, pinning blame on “virtue signaling” amongst Hollywood liberals.

“You couldn’t have a worse time at the movies if there was an active shooter in the theater,” Maher says, in the course of the six-minute section on Friday’s episode of “Real Time.” “The 2021 Oscars, brought to you by razor blades, Kleenex, and rope. Please welcome our host, the sad emoji.”

Maher ran by means of the record of nominees together with Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” the Carey Mulligan revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman” and Minari, “the story of dirt-poor Korean immigrants in Arkansas who put all their food in a barn but then grandma has a stroke and burns it down. Now enjoy the show!”

Maher additionally in contrast the nominated movies to “traffic school at the Holocaust museum” and complained concerning the host-less Oscar ceremony the place “the funniest part of the whole night” is the “In Memoriam” section.

“Academy nominations used to say, ‘What great movies we make. Now they say, ‘Look what good people we are,’” Maher mentioned, bemoaning the truth that “Hollywood used to know how to make a movie that was about something, a movie for adults that was also entertaining and not just depressing.”

“I keep asking myself why do so many liberals have the seeming desire to want to be sad,” Maher mentioned. “Could or not it’s as a result of being unhappy permits you to really feel such as you’re doing one thing about an issue with out really having to do something?

Watch the clip above.