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Sarah Jessica Parker took center stage at the Golden Globes’ Golden Eve celebration to accept the 2026 Carol Burnett Award on January 6, a moment the celebrity press treated like sacred ritual while Main Street watches the country they love fall behind. The ceremony was predictably glitzy, as Hollywood hands out another trophy to its own and congratulates itself for being fashionable and feeling bad about the world at the same time.
In her remarks Parker donned the usual mix of gratitude and nostalgia, invoking the Carol Burnett Show as inspiration and name-checking her long run on Sex and the City while admitting she sometimes feels “a little bit heartsick” for talented people who didn’t catch her same breaks. That kind of scripted humility reads as performative to anyone who’s paid attention to celebrity culture: big money, big platform, and a carefully staged confession of empathy that costs nothing.
Let’s be honest about the optics: the Carol Burnett Award is a fine tribute to a television legend — it was established by the Hollywood Foreign Press and Carol Burnett herself received the inaugural honor in 2019 — but Hollywood has a habit of creating ceremonies that reward image over substance. Naming and repackaging awards doesn’t change the fact that the elites who administer them live in a bubble, more interested in signaling virtue than addressing the culture rot they helped create.
Conservative voices should welcome the fact that media watchdogs like Megyn Kelly and Maureen Callahan are willing to call out what they rightly label “performative authenticity,” because someone has to point out when celebrity sorrow is really just another PR moment. When entertainers lecture the country while shielded by wealth and privilege, hardworking Americans have every right to be skeptical of moral posturing coming from the same people who profit from cultural chaos.
There’s nothing wrong with honoring talent, but there is everything wrong with a culture that applauds itself while real Americans lose jobs, see crime rise, and watch their children struggle under a school system that rewards ideology over learning. If Hollywood wants to earn respect, stop the self-congratulatory ceremonies and start using influence to restore American institutions instead of lecturing the rest of us about authenticity.
