By John Podhoretz
The quality, or lack thereof, of the 2021 show itself cannot be blamed for its own bad ratings, for the simple reason that no one had seen it yet and therefore could not have been inspired to avoid watching it due to its lousiness. No, what American audiences had seen were its predecessors. The show has stunk up the joint for many years. It has provided precious little entertainment or amusement for the people who used to enjoy it. Viewers were relatively patient. Most kept coming back. But lose 7% of your audience annually and pretty soon you’re down to nothing.
AND THEWINNER FOR THE WORST AWARD SHOWGOES TO... There hasn’t been a host in years that compares with the easygoing manner of Johnny Carson (who emceed five times) or the delightful neo-Borscht-Belt stylings of Billy Crystal (nine times, the last one in 2012). Oh, they’ve tried all kinds of things... One year, Family Guy ’s Seth MacFarlane opened the show by singing a ditty he had penned for himself called (I am not making this up) “I Saw Your Boobs.” A wan
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