Grammy gubbins

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The 2022 Grammy Awards show took place last night, postponed from its usual January/February slot in the calendar by pesky COVID.

Following last week’s headline-grabbing Oscars ceremony, the Grammys show wasn’t so eventful. But given the reason the Oscars grabbed so many headlines, that’s probably just as well.Actually, the joke gone wrong at this year’s Oscars bash did provide some comedy material for the comedians taking part in the Grammys.During his opening monologue, host Trevor Noah alluded to the on-stage altercation last week between Will Smith and Chris Rock – and the former’s post-slap demand of the latter – declaring that, at the US music industry’s big night out: “We’re gonna be listening to some music, we’re gonna be dancing, we’re gonna be singing, we’re gonna be keeping people’s names out of our mouths”.Meanwhile, prior to the main Grammys show when various non-televised awards were being dished out, actor LeVar Burton introduced comedian Nate Bargatze – there to announce the winner of the Best Spoken Word Album award – by telling the audience: “I want to warn you all that our next presenter is a comedian, if you know what I mean.

So, I need to caution everybody, remain in your seats and keep your hands to yourself”.Bargatze then walked on stage wearing a crash helmet, joking: “They said comedians have to wear these now at awards shows during the joke parts [but] it doesn’t even cover your face, I think it just focuses where you would hit me!”In terms of controversies that actually occurred within this year’s Grammys proceedings, there has been some backlash to Louis CK taking the prize for Best Comedy Album, given the allegations of sexual misconduct made against him in 2017, which he also discussed in.