"The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys"
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Her intent reads as twofold: to disarm the audience with absurdity (dogs as contestants) and to reassert the authority of a red-carpet veteran who’s seen it all. By invoking the Grammys, she’s not just name-checking a glamorous event; she’s framing it as a circus where the host’s job is to keep a straight face while chaos, vanity, and awkward bodily reality leak through the sequins.
The subtext is a gentle but pointed indictment of the entertainment machine: we dress up ritualized judgment as prestige, but the behavior on display can be as instinctual and unfiltered as anything in a kennel. Rivers’ comedy also smuggles in a survival strategy. If your workplace is fame, you cope by compressing it into one zinger: the animals are honest about their impulses; the humans just have better lighting.
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Rivers, Melissa. (2026, January 16). The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-interviews-have-been-a-little-tough-due-to-120318/
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Rivers, Melissa. "The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-interviews-have-been-a-little-tough-due-to-120318/.
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"The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-interviews-have-been-a-little-tough-due-to-120318/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
