“You know you have problems with representation if the Proud Boys have more black members than you,” Trevor Noah said Monday night.
Late-night hosts entered their performances at the controversial 2021 Golden Globes on Monday night, with Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel all showing off at the recent Los Angeles Times investigation that reported the ceremony of the ceremony had no black members.
During his Daily show begins monologue, Noah noted from the report, “You know you have problems with representation if the Proud Boys have more black members than you.” He added: ‘The good news is that you know they are going to solve the problem. Because can you imagine them coming back next year and like, ‘We’re still working on finding a single black person, if anyone out there knows a single black person, we’ll give them their number,’ ‘the last part in A French accent.
Noah remarked that “apart from the controversy of not being a black person, I’m not going to lie, I enjoyed seeing inside all these celebrity houses” during the virtual ceremony. He particularly pointed to Jeff Daniels’ Zoom background: “Because I do not know if you noticed it, but there are like five doors in that room. And think about it, we only see one and a half walls. There could easily be another 10 to 20 doors. ‘
On CBS, The Late ShowStephen Colbert says of the lack of black members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, “This explains why they have joined Globes in recent years. Green Paper and that of Hellmann “(as in the mayonnaise brand). He then compares the volume of black presenters during Monday’s ceremony with a brand new high school trying to show that it is diverse by having a black student in the student yearbook. relieved.
Colbert pointed out The Late Showorchestra leader and musical director Jon Batiste received a globe for best original score, a film for his work on Soul. “I’m so happy for Jon, I’m so grateful to work with him every day, because a man with his talent can work anywhere except in the Hollywood Foreign Press, apparently,” he joked.
While Jimmy Kimmel Live! the namesake contrasted another television event that weekend, CPAC, with the Globes: “The Golden Globes are the opposite of CPAC in every way, except they have no black people on the board. That’s the only thing they have. Otherwise, it’s very different, ‘he joked.
Kimmel also had fun with the gaffe during the broadcast when presenter Tracy Morgan voiced Pixar’s Soul as “Sal.” He said: ‘The most unexpected triumph of the night was when Tracy Morgan gave the award for best original school My Cousin Will instead of the movie Soul. “
A week before this year’s Globes Los Angeles Times published an inquiry into the voting body of the ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which reported on ethical issues, as well as the fact that the international organization with 87 members has zero black members. In addition to some statements made to the Times, the HFPA responded to the report on Sunday night at the Globes with a brief statement on stage, with member Helen Hoehne saying, “We acknowledge that we have our own work to do” and former HFPA President Meher Tatna added: “We need to make sure everyone has a seat at our table.”
Time’s Up, the workplace equity organization launched during the #MeToo movement, examined the Globes’ response to the report. The group sent two letters to the ceremony on Sunday night, one to the HFPA and one to network sponsor NBC, saying, “Your stated version of change is cosmetic – find black people. It’s not a solution” and called for greater measures. . to be taken.
However, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon exposed the controversy in their reporting and instead pointed to the awkward dynamics of the virtual ceremony. On Conan, host Conan O’Brien and announcer Andy Richter showed Al Pacino’s special look during the ceremony. While the couple pondered the awards events during the pandemic, Pacino ‘aired late into the night, airing Pacino’s footage from the NBC broadcast. “What is he doing?” Ask O’Brien.
“Um, it looks like he’s spotted on one of the bald eagles’ live cams,” Richter replies.
After O’Brien tried to tell Pacino that the ceremony was over, the actor disappeared, only to zoom back into the late-night program seconds later. A voice actor who played Pacino then asked, “What, is the program still over?”
The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon highlighted the difference between the appearance of some male and female stars during the ceremony: ‘It was interesting to enlarge: the women looked beautiful while the guys looked like they were throwing everything at the top of the barrier. “It did not look like an awards show, but an emergency at the Governors’ Ball,” he said during his monologue.
Fallon notes on the various Zoom lineups of stars and also highlights Jeff Daniels’ arrangement: “Jeff Daniels was apparently in the door section of Home Depot. Looks like an escape room or something.”