Trevor Noah is again because the host of the Grammy Awards for the fourth time, and made it clear that Taylor Swift is the star of the present.
“As Taylor walks within the room, the economic system improves,” Noah, 39, mentioned in his Sunday, February 4 monologue, as Swift, 34, entered Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Area alongside longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. “I feel it’s so unfair how NFL followers have been complaining in regards to the cameras reducing to Taylor Swift like she’s controlling the cameras on the sport. Simply let her dwell.”
Many diehard soccer followers have been indignant with the NFL displaying Swift at her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games. Noah, for his half, made it clear that he’s on Workforce Taylor.
“The truth is, tonight, on Taylor’s behalf, you realize what I’m going to do? I’m gonna give her a break,” he joked. “Each time they point out Taylor Swift, I’m gonna get revenge. Each time somebody says Taylor Swift, I’m gonna minimize the cameras to somebody who performs soccer. Minimize, bam.”
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Swift clearly accepted of the joke, hilariously laughing from her seat within the viewers particularly when Noah requested fellow attendee and former soccer participant Terry Crews if he accepted of the plan.
Noah has beforehand hosted the musical awards present in 2021, 2022 and 2023, however just lately teased that he deliberate to convey new methods to Sunday’s ceremony.
“I don’t know what’s going to occur. In order that’s what I like in regards to the Grammys is it’s dwell; it’s taking place; it’s on the fly,” he mentioned throughout a Wednesday, January 31, look on CBS Mornings. “Right here’s the factor about award exhibits is everyone loves the joke when it’s not about them, and your aim and your hope is to inform a joke about the individual that in addition they suppose is humorous. So it’s troublesome. And I feel each comic understands this.”
For Noah, he will get nervous when writing jokes about “superstars.”
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“Like, I don’t wanna get on the mistaken aspect of Taylor Swift followers,” he joked on Wednesday. “So that you’re attempting to stroll this tremendous line of being, you realize, the comic, however then additionally, nonetheless being good in regards to the night time.”
Kevin Winter/Getty Photos The 2024 Grammys have been larger than ever with new classes and a star-studded lineup of chart-topping performers. Trevor Noah returned as host for the fourth consecutive yr, taking the stage on the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 4. Nominations have been introduced in November 2023 with three new classes launched […]
Swift, who’s up for six Grammy trophies this yr, just lately was the topic of a joke that shocked the web on the Golden Globes final month. After host Jo Koy quipped that the ceremony would have fewer photographs of Swift, 34, than NFL video games, the pop star regarded visibly irritated. Koy, 52, then threw his writers beneath the bus when it was clear that the joke didn’t land.
Noah, for his half, has already taken accountability for his remarks.
“I collaborate as a lot as I can. I’m accountable for every thing that comes out of my mouth,” he advised Billboard in January. “I’m accountable for every thing that I write in and across the moments with my group. We’ve at all times been given full leeway and I feel it’s as a result of the producers and I assume the [Recording] Academy belief me that I’m not there to spoil anyone’s night time.”
He continued, “Most significantly, I’m not there to make the night time about me. An excellent Grammys is an evening the place you don’t keep in mind me, however you go, ‘That was a terrific present.’ A fantastic Grammys is the place you keep in mind me and also you suppose it was additionally a terrific present.”
