Trevor Noah didn’t waste time addressing the elephant within the room. Through the 2022 Grammy Awards’ opening, the host made a fast crack about Will Smith and Chris Rock’s now-infamous slap.
Per week after Will Smith and Chris Rock turned everybody into an professional on awards reveals, Trevor Noah kicked off the sixty fourth Grammy Awards on the MGM Backyard Area in Las Vegas with the grace and wit anticipated from the Each day Present host. “Individuals, it’s going to be such an exquisite night,” Trevor, 38, mentioned after excitedly working down the record of performances through the Apr. 3 occasion. “Don’t even consider it as an awards present. This can be a live performance the place we’re giving out awards. We’re going to take heed to some music, we’re going to be dancing, we’re going to be singing, we’re going to be retaining individuals’s names out of our mouths, and we’re going to be giving out awards all all through the evening.”
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There was some suspicion that Noah may handle the incident when Will smacked the style out of Chris’s mouth on the 2022 Academy Awards. Trevor’s “retaining individuals’s names out of our mouths” refers to what Will shouted at Chris after hanging the comic for making a joke over Jada Pinkett-Smith’s hair. Within the week that adopted, Will apologized and resigned from The Academy. Everybody else appeared to have an opinion on the slap.
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“BTS is one among my favourite performers I’ve ever seen — I’ve seen few acts put collectively performances as elaborate as them,” Trevor advised Selection when discussing who he was trying ahead to watching on the 2022 present. “Billie Eilish additionally places on some particular reveals. Who else… he in all probability received’t be at this yr’s awards however I believe Kendrick Lamar has a few of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen, the choreography he places collectively is simply out of this world.”
When requested about his favourite album, Trevor picked Bruno Mars and Anderson . Paak’s An Night With…Silk Sonic. “There are so few albums in life don’t take themselves too severely, and but what they obtain is magical and artistically good on the similar time. Once I first heard of Silk Sonic and the concept, I used to be like, “I ponder how that is gonna work?,” however I’ve grow to be an enormous fan, it’s one among my favourite of the yr.”
Trevor discovered himself in some drama weeks forward of the Grammys when Kanye West focused the Each day Present host. On the present, Trevor mentioned Ye’s continuous assaults on Kim Kardashian over her new boyfriend, Pete Davidsion, significantly the “Simple” video the place a Pete Davidson stand-in was buried alive as much as his neck. “He goes, ‘Depart me to create my artwork.’ Yeah however Kanye, you advised us you've got issues,” mentioned Noah. “Now once we fear about that, you say we shouldn’t fear as a result of it’s not [his] drawback. Or it's [his] issues? Which is it?”
Trevor additionally mentioned that Ye’s continuous badgering Kim and Pete was “terrifying to look at and shines a highlight on what so many ladies undergo once they select to go away,” which then noticed Ye direct his anger at Noah. Ye changed the lyrics of “Kumbaya” with a racial slur. Instagram then suspended Ye for 24-hours for “violating the platform’s insurance policies on hate speech, bullying and harassment.”
Following this transfer, the Grammys banned Kanye from performing on the present (Ye’s involvement was not recognized on the time, and West’s “Simple” collaborator, The Recreation, put the blame on Trevor’s shoulders.) Trevor opposed the ban, tweeting “I mentioned ‘counsel Kanye,’ not ‘cancel Kanye,‘” a reference to the prolonged word Trevor left in response to the preliminary slur.