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Social Media Explodes After Steve Harvey Rolls Out in Ridiculous New Year's Outfit

By C. Douglas Golden January 2, 2018 at 5:10pm

It’s often been said that people watch auto racing for the car wrecks. In a metaphorical sense, the same thing applies to New Year’s Eve network broadcasts.

This year was set up to be a relatively wreck-free evening. Kathy Griffin had taken herself out of the running due to a bloody accident. Mariah Carey — who infamously went over the high side last year — managed to make a decent accounting of herself this time around, aside from a bizarre remark involving hot tea. And, after his 2016 shenanigans, one assumes CNN has the breathalyzer trained on Don Lemon hourly between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2.

Thankfully, America had Steve Harvey to keep them warm with schadenfreude — and he didn’t even have to announce the wrong winner this time.

Harvey was the host of Fox’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square. At first glance, at least to this writer, this seems a bit better than spending the night with Ryan Seacrest over on ABC or whatever drunk celebrities/CNN staffers Anderson Cooper managed to dredge up to ring in 2018.

And, in fact, Harvey seems to have acquitted himself relatively decently from the hosting ability standpoint. His sartorial choices, however, left quite a bit to be desired.

Steve Harvey Got Ruthlessly Roasted For His Super Extra New Year's Eve Outfit https://t.co/rsuZI33c21 pic.twitter.com/7u7dkRWHLn

— Brotips (@brotips) January 1, 2018

Yes, someone not only went out in public wearing that, that someone was Steve Harvey and he did it on one of the biggest telecasts of the year.

It didn’t take long for social media to explode with comparisons to who (or what) people thought Steve Harvey looked like.

https://twitter.com/TheLesterLee/status/947649919971667968

https://twitter.com/JoeyDrupieski/status/947698108166631424

Steve Harvey is dressed like Inspector Gadget and I can't unsee it. #NYEonFOX pic.twitter.com/JeiWKU7l28

— Ashley Carter (@AshleyLCarter1) January 1, 2018

https://twitter.com/WowfollowINC/status/948308702003478528

Steve Harvey walked in like pic.twitter.com/o4C3O11Dpe

— LaSonya (@lasonyaj71) January 1, 2018

Steve Harvey out there looking like Olivia Pope. pic.twitter.com/E6rmoqLywA

— Deniz S. (@MrFilmkritik) January 1, 2018

I was personally going to go with footage from the unreleased film “Dolemite Visits Alaska”, but the “Inspector Gadget” and “Spy vs. Spy” references are also top-notch.

While CNN may have stolen Steve Harvey’s trainwreck thunder a bit with their excursion onto a marijuana party bus (yes, seriously) during their New Year’s Eve coverage, not even the stoner contingent could fully excise the cartoonishness of Steve Harvey’s outfit.

Sorry, Steve. You may have had the hosting chops, but you should look in a new direction for a wardrobe director if they bring you back next year.

H/T BizPac Review

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

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Morristown, New Jersey

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Catholic University of America

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American Politics, World Politics, Culture