Trevor Noah jokes about Will Smith at the Grammys

MIt’s a reference to the slap scandal surrounding the actors will Smith At the Oscars a week ago, supervisor Trevor Noah began presenting the American Grammy Music Awards. “We’ll listen to music, we’ll dance, we’ll sing, we’ll put people’s names out of our mouths and we’ll award prizes,” said comedian Noah. , who hosted the Grammys last year, at a live television show on Sunday night in Las Vegas.

At the Academy Awards a week ago, actor Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage after he made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett. Then Smith, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in King Richard, shouted two more times from his seat, “Keep my wife’s name out of your damn mouth!”

The Grammy It will be awarded for the 64th time this year. The ceremony was originally scheduled for January 31, but was subsequently postponed due to the rapid spread of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus. About 13,000 members of the Recording Academy decide the winners of the Grammy Awards, which are among the most coveted music awards in the world.