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Joel Kim Booster Hopes To Bring Levity To WGA Awards’ West Coast Ceremony After Years Of Strife For Writers


Joel Kim Booster says he just wants to make people laugh at Saturday's WGA Awards west coast ceremony

Booster will be joined at Saturday’s Los Angeles ceremony, by a powerful list of presenters that includes Utkarsh Ambudkar, Eric Bauza, Clancy Brown, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ernie Hudson, Diarra Kilpatrick, Thomas Lennon, Franklin Leonard, and Luke Tennie. In the interview below, Booster spoke with Deadline about how he’s trying to strike a balance that other award show hosts have failed to find in recent years, why he’ll bring up his union membership any chance he gets, and what he hopes the future holds for writers. BOOSTER: The thing that makes the all the difference as someone who has watched so many award shows is there has to be equal amounts of reverence and irreverence for what you’re doing there in the room that day.

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