“Thank you. Thank you very, very much. I’m not going to talk about it,” actor-comedian Jerrod Carmichael said up top, in his first opening monologue as host of SNL. “I want …
slap presenter Chris Rock in the face, after the comic made a joke at the expense of his wife, Jada Pinkett. “I’ve got a question—do you want to talk about it? Aren’t you sick of talking about it? Isn’t it kind of crazy?” said the host, without ever referencing the Oscars outright.
Carmichael continued to say that it feels like the incident happened “somewhere between Jamiroquai and 9/11—somewhere a long, long time ago. “It feels like we’ve been living in the wake of it our entire lives,” he said. “It happened on Sunday! On Sunday!” Carmichael said that as of this past Monday, talking about the Oscars incident was exciting. “I’m not going to lie. If this were Monday, you wouldn’t be able to get me to shut up about it. I was talking about it all Monday,” he said. “Tuesday, still talking about it—a little less exciting because it stopped being about it by Tuesday. It started being about a lot of proxy arguments [about] hair, and Black men, and white people on Twitter.
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