Michelle Wolf didn’t fail just because she was (spectacularly) one-sided. It was because she was unnecessarily cruel on a night the WHCA was trying to showcase decency and purpose. Undermined an otherwise meaningful night.
“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!” Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals ( 1887).