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Party Boy Josh Gondelman Crushes His WGA Awards Monologue
There was a cocaine reference.
On April 14, Josh Gondelman hosted the East Coast edition of the 2024 Writers Guild Awards, and between jokes about the 2023 WGA strike (“As a show of enduring solidarity, I have remained unemployed”) and the big philosophical questions of the last awards season (“Is it okay that I, as a white person, enjoyed American Fiction, or does that mean I didn’t understand it?”), the writer and comedian cut a few lines, referencing one of the great Twitter bits of 2020.Talking about the disastrous year in digital media, Gondelman referenced Vice’s financial troubles, joking that the publication’s situation had grown so dire that “they had to cut people’s severance packages with baby laxative.” Then, amid a smattering of laughs, he added, “I’m sorry, is that joke a little too in the nose? Gondelman’s trysts with the devil’s sugar (or lack thereof) first became a topic of conversation in 2020, when he responded to comedian Matt Koff’s tweet inviting him to try cocaine by saying, “This does seem fun!!! Gondelman seemed adamant at the time that the petition would not convince him to try hard drugs; he opted instead to donate $1,000 to the National Harm Reduction Coalition, like some sort of benevolent coward.
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