All the best moments from Jerrod Carmichael’s opening monologue at the Golden Globes.
Jerrod Carmichael made sure he was getting a plush paycheck before signing on to host the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, held Jan. 10 at the Beverly Hilton. The Emmy-winning stand-up, 35, revealed he was getting paid $500k to host the gig during his opening monologue, where he directly dissed the awards for their past diversity scandal.
“I’m here cause I’m black,” he joked, addressing the first Emmy’s audience since it was revealed they had zero black members in a 2020 exposè by the Los Angeles Times. The following year, NBC chose not to televise the awards in light of the scandal, while talent and creatives boycotted the Globes almost entirely.
Giving everyone a refresher, Jerrod went on, “I’ll catch everyone in the room up. The Golden Globe Awards did not air last year because the HFPA — which, I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single Black member until George Floyd died, so do with that information what you will…”
Then, he recounted how he got the job. “I was at home, drinking tea, when I got a phone call from my man Stephen Hill,” he rememberd.
