David Spade and Dana Carvey Say Hollywood Should Quit Announcing Who's the 'First' Black or Female Winner
On their 'Fly on the Wall' podcast, the former SNL stars called the habit 'a little diminishing.' Breitbart notes the pair also blamed Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom for Hollywood's decline in March.
Two comedians with decades in Hollywood say the industry's way of praising people sometimes does the opposite, Breitbart News reports.
The podcast. Former "Saturday Night Live" cast members David Spade and Dana Carvey made the case on an episode of their "Fly on the Wall" podcast, Breitbart says. Spade began by arguing that stressing race and gender leads to separation.
On race. Spade said he saw a clip of an awards show announcing a winner as "the first Black director to win for this documentary." "I wish they would quit saying that," he said. "If you just say we're all actors . . . now this is my point of view, that it just makes it more even and not, we're all just the same. We're all acting."
On gender. Spade recalled that producers of the NBC sitcom "Just Shoot Me" would tell the cast when a female director would be working that week. "I [would] go, 'That's fine. Just is it a director? Yeah. Okay, we got it.' Like you don't even have to say that," he said. "It feels like a little, not condescending, but a little diminishing." He said he was "a big proponent of fighting that."
The joke. Carvey joked about winning an Emmy and the presenters calling him the "198th straight white male that has won this award."
The history. Breitbart notes that in March the two publicly blamed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for Hollywood's decline.
Note for readers: these are the comedians' opinions, offered in a casual podcast. We have not listened to the episode and are relying on the quotes Breitbart published.