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Jennifer Coolidge dedicated her MTV Comedic Genius award to the WGA and its strike.
Almost all great comedy starts with great writers, she said.
Fighting for the rights of artists everywhere.
The 2023 MTV Movie and TV Awards werent broadcast live because of the writers strike.
The WGA announced it would be picketing the show.
Host Drew Barrymore and Best Reality On-Screen Team (presented by SONIC) winner Lala Kent also backed out.
MTV then said the show would air with pretaped sketches and acceptance speeches.
But a good chunk of her speech was a shout-out to the writers.
I think of the words of Shakespeare where he once said, The play is the thing.
Then she started dancing to Jump Around, by House of Pain.
