“You know you have representation problems when the Proud Boys have more Black members than you do,” said Trevor Noah on Monday night.
Early night presenters weighed in on the controversial 2021 Golden Globes Awards on their Monday night shows, with Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel all pointing to the recent Los Angeles Times investigation that reported that the polling station at the ceremony had no black members.
During your Daily Show In the opening monologue, Noah commented on the report: “You know you have representation problems when the Proud Boys have more Black members than you do.” He added: “The good news is that you know they are going to solve the problem. Because you can imagine them coming back next year and thinking, ‘We are still working on finding a single black person, if anyone out there knows a single black person, give us your number ‘”, the last part with a French accent.
Noah noted that “in addition to the controversy without blacks, I am not going to lie, I enjoyed seeing the interior of every celebrity home” during the virtual ceremony. He pointed particularly to Jeff Daniels’ Zoom background: “Because I don’t know if you noticed this, but there are five doors in that room. And, think about it, we are only seeing a wall and a half. There could easily be 10 more. to 20 doors. “
At CBS, The Late ShowStephen Colbert said of the lack of black members of the Hollywood Foreign Press: “That explains why in recent years they’ve given Globes to Green Paper and Hellmann’s “(as in, the mayonnaise brand). He then compared the volume of black presenters at Monday’s ceremony to an all-white high school trying to show that it is diverse by highlighting a black student in the student’s yearbook.
Colbert pointed out that The Late ShowBand leader and musical director Jon Batiste received a Globe for Best Original Film Soundtrack for his work in Soul. “I am very happy for Jon, I am very grateful to work with him every day because a man with his talent can work anywhere, except, of course, at the Hollywood Foreign Press,” he joked.
During Jimmy Kimmel Live! the homonymous presenter compared another televised event that same weekend, the CPAC, with the Globes: “The Golden Globes are the opposite of CPAC in every way, except that they have no blacks on the board. That is the only thing that they have in common. Otherwise, they are very different “, he joked.
Kimmel also scoffed at the gaffe during the broadcast, when host Tracy Morgan stated that Soul like “Salt”. He said: “The most unexpected triumph of the night was when Tracy Morgan gave the award for the best original school to My cousin salt instead of the movie Soul. “
A week before this year’s Globo, the Los Angeles Times published an investigation into the voting body of the ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which reported on ethical issues, as well as the fact that the 87-member international organization has no blacks. In addition to some statements issued to the Times, HFPA responded to the report with a brief statement on the Globes stage on Sunday night, with member Helen Hoehne saying “We recognize that we have our own work to do” and former HFPA president Meher Tatna, adding: “We must make sure everyone gets a seat at our table. “
Time’s Up, the workplace equality organization launched during the #MeToo movement, questioned the Globes’ response to the report. On Sunday night, after the ceremony, the group sent two letters, one to HFPA and one to the sponsor of the NBC network, saying, “Your avowed version of the change is cosmetic – meet black people. This is not a solution” and asking for greater measures to be taken.
Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon, however, avoided the controversy in their coverage and instead pointed to the strange dynamics of the virtual ceremony. On Conan, host Conan O’Brien and broadcaster Andy Richter highlighted Al Pacino’s particular appearance at the ceremony. While the pair reflected on the state of the award ceremonies during the pandemic, Pacino “extended” the evening program, which featured images of Pacino on the NBC broadcast. “What he is doing?” O’Brien asked.
“Um, it looks like he’s being watched on one of those live bald eagle cameras,” replied Richter.
After O’Brien tried to tell Pacino that the ceremony was over, the actor disappeared, only to return to the night show seconds later. A voice actor playing Pacino asked, “What, is the show over yet?”
The Tonight Show Presenter Jimmy Fallon highlighted the discrepancy between the appearance of some male and female stars during the ceremony: “It was interesting about Zoom: the women looked beautiful while the boys seemed to have played whatever was on top of the basket … no it looked like an award show, it looked like an emergency room after the Governors’ Ball, “he said during his monologue.
Commenting on the various Zoom settings of the stars, Fallon also highlighted Jeff Daniels’ arrangement: “Jeff Daniels was in the door section of the Home Depot, apparently. It looks like an escape room or something.”