4 months ago
After aggregate successful hosting stints astatine nan Critics Choice Awards, comedian Chelsea Handler took nan shape astatine Barker Hangar for nan 4th clip — paying tribute to nan precocious Rob Reiner, not holding backmost connected shots astatine Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Leonardo DiCaprio and moreover shouting retired breakout Crave Canada deed Heated Rivalry.
“Sinners is nan communicative of brothers who commencement this really nosy spot for intermezo and past vampires show up, suck nan life retired of everybody and pain it each to nan ground. Fun fact: The original sanction of nan main vampire was David Zaslav,” she quipped, arsenic nan camera panned to prima Michael B. Jordan, who could beryllium seen ruefully shaking his caput astatine nan joke.
Touting nan play drama’s near-$368 cardinal worldwide container agency gross, Handler called retired a portion from our sister publication, which readers and celebrities alike slammed for minimizing nan critically acclaimed film’s financial performance. “White Hollywood was truthful shook aft seeing nan container agency numbers, Variety ran nan headline: ‘Do container agency numbers really matter?'”
In different biz-related joke, Handler went aft nan C-suite successful general: “Seth Rogen is present tonight. Years of playing stoners, slackers and underachievers who do adjacent to thing each time prepared Seth for his latest domiciled of personification who does moreover little — a workplace head.”
The comic besides went aft One Battle After Another star DiCaprio, who conscionable past nighttime missed an quality astatine nan Palm Springs Film Festival (where he was group to judge a Desert Palm Achievement Award), owed to recreation restrictions. The Oscar victor was vacationing connected a yacht disconnected nan seashore of St. Barts astatine nan time. “It was conscionable for illustration nan Titanic but worse because Jeff Bezos was there,” Handler said.
Showering praise connected nan year’s original series, Handler gave a lukewarm shoutout to 1 of astir ascendant shows successful nan zeitgeist: “You guys made amazing, original shows that everyone couldn’t extremity talking astir — until that cheery lucky show from Canada came along,” she said. “Shoutout to Heated Rivalry; everyone loves it: Gay men emotion it, women emotion it, consecutive men who opportunity they aren’t cheery but activity retired astatine Equinox emotion it!”
In much TV-related material, Handler said: “The formed of Landman is here. Spoiler alert: successful a caller episode, Billy Bob Thornton went afloat frontal. Taylor Sheridan said it was bully to person a dick connected group that wasn’t Kevin Costner.”
Closing retired her opener, aft Handler highlighted Jay Kelly‘s Adam Sandler arsenic “the nicest feline successful Hollywood,” she launched into a saccharine remembrance of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dormant mid-December after being allegedly stabbed by their boy Nick Reiner.
“Actually, you’re nan 2nd nicest feline successful Hollywood, because everyone successful this room knows that nan nicest feline successful Hollywood was Rob Reiner,” she began. “Anyone who ever spent clip pinch Rob Reiner knows that nan infinitesimal you met him, he felt for illustration an aged friend erstwhile you were successful a speech pinch him. He was present, he was focused and he was funny, and he would inquire you tons of questions, whether you were discussing authorities aliases movie aliases nan latest beauty trends — he was each in. After I sent him a matter thanking him for meal a fewer months ago, he texted maine backmost and said, ‘We had truthful overmuch nosy pinch you past night. Thanks for explaining truthful overmuch astir integrative surgery. It was very edifying.’ Rob and Michele were tireless successful their efforts to truthful galore important causes, each stemming from 1 basal idea: decency and that we should each look retired for each other. I deliberation we tin each work together that we decidedly request much of that. So, let’s usage coming arsenic a reminder of that decency and arsenic a reminder of everything Rob and Michele represented and fought truthful difficult for.”
