“I’ll tell you why I’m here. I’m here because I’m Black. I’ll catch everyone in the room up. … This show … did not air last year because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single Black member until George Floyd died.” – Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael, immediately addressing the White Elephant in the room in his opening monologue.
Jerrod Carmichael didn’t come to play. He came to pull back the curtain and give us the inside story on how he was asked to host the Golden Globes, how much he was paid and why he decided to take the job, whether the Hollywood Foreign Press had really changed or not. (Spoiler alert: The half-million dollars didn’t hurt.)
