Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael wasted no time in addressing the elephant in the room at the 80th anniversary of the Golden Globes, while the audience did not know whether to laugh or not during his opening monologue.
He said he did what he does when he has a moral racial dilemma — he called his friend, Avery, "who for the sake of this monologue represents every black person in America"."And I said $500,000. And she said, 'Boy, if you don't put on a good suit and take them white people's money …""I bet black informants for the FBI in the 60s, like their families, were still proud of them.
Carmichael was then told the president of the HFPA, Helen Hoehne, wanted to have a one-on-one sit-down with him, which he initially rejected.He thought that was the end of the matter, until he was told the HFPA was insisting he take the meeting. "And I'm like, or what? They're gonna fire me? They haven't had a black host in 79 years. They're gonna fire the first one? I'm un-fireable.""I took this job assuming they hadn't changed at all," he said to laughter."I look out into this room and I see a lot of talented people," he continued.
"People that I admire … people that I would like to be like, people that I'm jealous of and people that are actually really incredible artists. "And, regardless of whatever the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's past may be, this is an evening when we get to celebrate.
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