Three supposed comediennes co-hosted the Oscars Sunday night, as the show, which has been reeling from its plunge in ratings in recent years, attempted to win America over. Co-host Wanda Sykes decided she would alienate plenty of people in Florida by attacking them over the state’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, sniping, “Well, we’re going to have a great night tonight. And for you people in Florida, we’re going to have a gay night.”
She then joined co-hosts Regina Hall and Amy Schumer to chant like defiant four-year-olds, “Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.”
They’re laughing at you, Florida, not with you.#DontSayGay#Oscars pic.twitter.com/GGoQEISU30
— Peter Schorsch 🇺🇦 (@PeterSchorschFL) March 28, 2022
Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis, who reportedly supports the bill, mocked the trio of faux-comediennes with a succinct and lacerating tweet: “Florida will never recover from this.”
Florida will never recover from this 😅 https://t.co/PDZzamxPDv
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 28, 2022
The trio of co-hosts didn’t stop at attacking Floridians; Schumer taunted white women, snapping,“I am representing unbearable white women who call the cops when you get a little too loud.”
Hall prompted Sykes, saying,“You know, this year, we saw a frightening display of how toxic masculinity turns into cruelty toward women and children.”
via joemiller
