38 Razzie Awards Jokes: The 2021 “Diana Musical, Space Jam & Gucci Accents” Edition

In 2021, the 42nd Razzie Awards feasted on a year where Broadway met Netflix with disastrous results, a basketball legend tried to out-act a cartoon bunny, and Bruce Willis appeared in so many bad movies that the Razzies literally had to give him his own category just to keep up.

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1. The Diana: Musical Disaster: Why did Diana the Musical win 5 Razzies? Because it’s the only show where the lyrics are so bad they actually make you feel sorry for the concept of rhyme—and the British Monarchy.
2. Space Jam’s Double Dribble: Why did LeBron James win Worst Actor? Because he proved that while he can carry a basketball team, he can’t quite carry a movie that’s basically a two-hour commercial for the Warner Bros. server room.
3. Jared Leto’s House of Gucci: Why did he win Worst Supporting Actor? For a performance that involved five pounds of latex and an accent that sounded like Mario and Luigi’s long-lost, very confused cousin.
4. The Bruce Willis Category: Why did he have his own category? Because in 2021, Bruce starred in 8 different movies that were all so “straight-to-trash” the Razzies felt a regular nomination wasn’t enough.
5. Infinite’s Identity Crisis: Why was Mark Wahlberg nominated? For a movie about reincarnation where the only thing that felt “infinite” was the audience’s desire for the credits to roll.
6. The Woman in the Window’s Fog: Why was Amy Adams back? For a thriller that was so messy it actually made the audience wish they were looking at a blank wall instead of the screen.
7. Dear Evan Hansen’s Wig: Why was Ben Platt nominated? Because playing a high schooler when you look like you’re ready for a mortgage and a colonoscopy is a level of “teen spirit” nobody asked for.
8. Karen’s Subtlety: Why was Karen hit? For being a thriller that was so “on the nose” it actually broke the nose of everyone watching it.
9. He’s All That’s TikTok: Why was Addison Rae a target? For proving that 80 million followers on TikTok equals approximately zero seconds of acting experience.
10. The Razzie Redeemer – Will Smith: Why did he win? For his Oscar-winning performance in King Richard, proving that after After Earth, there is still life (and gold) at the end of the tunnel.

The Full 2021 Razzie Jokes Archive

11. Worst Picture: Why Diana the Musical? Because it’s a “tribute” so tone-deaf it actually makes the 90s tabloid headlines look respectful.
12. Worst Actor: Why LeBron James? For Space Jam: A New Legacy, where his primary acting method was “staring at things that weren’t there with a look of mild annoyance.”
13. Worst Actress: Why Jeanna de Waal? For playing Princess Diana in a musical that felt like it was written by someone who had only ever read the back of a cereal box about the Royal Family.
14. Worst Supporting Actor: Why Jared Leto? For House of Gucci, a performance so “extra” it actually required its own area code.
15. Worst Supporting Actress: Why Judy Kaye? For playing both Queen Elizabeth II and Barbara Cartland in Diana, proving that in a bad musical, even double the royalty means double the Razzies.
16. Worst Director: Why Christopher Ashley for Diana? For directing a stage play for film and forgetting that the camera can see how awkward everything is.
17. Worst Screenplay: Why Diana the Musical? For lyrics like “Feel the grip of ginger hair,” which is a line that should be banned by the Geneva Convention.
18. Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel: Why Space Jam: A New Legacy? Because it’s a “rip-off” of our childhood memories and a “remake” of a marketing meeting.
19. Worst Screen Couple: Why LeBron James and any Warner cartoon character he dribbles? Because the chemistry was 100% digital and 0% magical.
20. The “Infinite” Logic: Why was it hit? For a movie where the plot is so complicated even the immortal characters seemed to have forgotten why they were fighting.
21. The “Out of Death” Burn: Why Bruce Willis? For being the winner of the “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie” category—a title he really worked for.
22. The “Me You Madness” Vibe: Why Louise Linton? For a movie she wrote, directed, and starred in that felt like a 90-minute fever dream about high fashion and cannibalism.
23. The “Tom & Jerry” Burn: Why was the movie hit? For proving that putting Chloë Grace Moretz in a room with a CGI cat and mouse is a great way to waste everyone’s time.
24. The “Vanquish” Logic: Why Ruby Rose and Morgan Freeman? For a thriller so dull it made Morgan Freeman look like he was actually taking a nap in some scenes.
25. The “Twist” Failure: Why? For a modern retelling of Oliver Twist that was so “edgy” it actually fell off the cliff of common sense.
26. Worst Actor Runner-up: Why Ben Platt? For proving that the only thing “Evan Hansen” couldn’t hide was the fact that he was clearly 27 years old.
27. Worst Actress Runner-up: Why Amy Adams? For The Woman in the Window, a movie that had five different endings and not one of them was good.
28. Worst Supporting Actor Runner-up: Why Mel Gibson for Dangerous? For proving that he can still find a way into the Razzie nominations by playing a very bored psychiatrist.
29. Worst Supporting Actress Runner-up: Why Taryn Manning for Every Last One of Them? For a performance that was just as loud and confusing as the movie itself.
30. The “Chaos Walking” Burn: Why Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley? For a movie where everyone can hear each other’s thoughts—and most of those thoughts were “I wish I was on a different set.”
31. The “Midnight in the Switchgrass” Joke: Why? For being the movie where Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly met, which is the only interesting thing that happened in the entire production.
32. The “Snake Eyes” Logic: Why? For a G.I. Joe spin-off that was so generic it felt like it was sold in a plain white box labeled “NINJA MOVIE.”
33. The “Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” Burn: Why? For a sequel that was 200% louder than the first one but 0% funnier.
34. The “Music” Carry-over: Why was Sia still being joked about? Because the Razzies were still trying to figure out how that movie actually got made.
35. The “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City” Vibe: Why? For proving that “faithfulness to the game” doesn’t matter if the movie feels like a low-budget haunted house.
36. The “American Siege” Burn: Why Bruce Willis? For appearing in a movie for about 10 minutes and still being the main person on the poster.
37. The “Apex” Logic: Why? For another Most Dangerous Game rip-off where the only thing being hunted was the viewer’s patience.
38. The 2021 Final Razzie Vibe: Why was it a landmark? Because it was the year of “The Bruce Willis Category”—a tribute so unique it was later rescinded out of respect for his health, making it a rare moment of Razzie heart.