American comedian Nikki Glaser explained that the reasons she avoided making jokes about U.S. President Donald Trump and ICE during Sunday’s Golden Globes was for fear of missing the tone.
“It’s not funny… At some point I was going to say, ‘I hear from the bar that we’re out of ice (which translates to ice). And, you know, we don’t really need it. And, in fact, I hate ice,'” Glaser said, with a double entendre about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in an interview on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ radio program.
“I just felt that even that is too trivial… It’s hard to find the right tone,” added the host of these awards.
The comedian also told Stern that even mentioning the Trump name seemed too political and recounted that a joke proposed to her by Steve Martin that played on the recent renaming of the Kennedy Center to ironize that Trump would be renaming other spaces like the Beverly Hilton Hotel was dropped.
During the gala Glaser only mentioned the name of the U.S. president once, namely in the opening monologue in which he mocked the redaction of Jeffrey Epstein’s files.
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“There are so many A-listers (A-listers), and when I say A-listers, I mean people who are on a heavily censored list,” the comedian said, playing on the double entendre of “A-lister” and the word “list.”
“And the Golden Globe for Best Editing goes to the Department of Justice,” he added.
Glaser included another political moment when he poked fun at CBS, the gala’s broadcaster, following the recent cancellation of a ’60 Minutes’ segment on deportations.
“And the award for the most exaggerated edition goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America’s new portal for watching junk news,” the comedian said.
The 83rd Golden Globes took place a few days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, in Minneapolis and a week after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and captured the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Few artists took a political stance in their speeches during the gala, but among them stood out stars such as Mark Ruffalo, who on the red carpet denounced the authoritarianism and low morality of the U.S. president and wore the “BE GOOD” pin in honor of the ICE victim.
Other celebrities who wore the accessory and another one that read “ICE OUT” were Jean Heart, Ariana Grande and Natasha Lyonne, reported Agencia EFE.
Here you can watch the Golden Globes opening monologue with Nikki Glaser.
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