I wish I would’ve watched, this is right on point with what I would expect from him-unapologetically black, awkward laughter and uncomfortable honesty. Brilliant.
— ✨Miss Celie’s Smile ✨ (@HelloKeysii) January 11, 2023
Jerrod Carmichael hosted this year's Golden Globes. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars.
I see a bunch of you are giving me the Jennifer Lawrence "I don't quite get the difference between them" treatment. They're both movie awards shows. They both used to be watched by actual human beings (probably in your grandparents' time). Now they are watched by essentially nobody.
Carmichael had to, of course, take a break from the show (despite it not happening during Black History Month, talk about needing to stay in your lane better than your race does when I pass you on the Whitemud) to berate anybody who didn't endlessly celebrate him being a morally repugnant niggerfag.
“I’m here ‘cause I’m black,” quipped Carmichael. The pitfall of this joke is that if a renowned black comedian like Chris Rock were to say it, we would laugh at the ridiculous idea that his race scored him the opportunity. This time, however, we have reasonable suspicion that the HFPA invited a far less relevant comic to host in an attempt to save face.“I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single black member until George Floyd died,” Carmichael cynically remarked. He expressed surprise at being “invited to be the black face of an embattled white organization.” Although he won some cackles from champagne-drunk audience members, I doubt viewers at home were amused by Hollywood’s performative self-flagellation.
Yep, real "uncomfortable honesty" there. A European organization unsurprisingly is full of Europeans, and it's proof positive that they are a "racist organization" and not "your kind makes objectively shitty media".
Anyways going back to Kimmel, was he unapologetically white, brilliantly skewering blacks with awkward laughter and uncomfortable honesty? Er, nope, apparently not.
So next year can we have a proud straight white man come on and educate Miss Celie in a few things? I think the show would run a little long though...
