System Of A Down drummer John Dolmayan responds to Nikki Glaser’s Glenn Close Golden Globes joke

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System Of A Down‘s drummer, John Dolmayan, has responded to Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes joke about the band.Glaser served as the host of this year’s Golden Globes award ceremony on January 5.

While introducing legendary actress Glenn Close – who was set to present the award for Best Motion Picture – Drama – the host and comedian listed a few of Close’s accolades and snuck in a mention of the Armenian-American heavy metal band.“To present our next award please welcome, from Netflix’s Back In Action, three-time Golden Globe Award winner, Hollywood icon and former drummer for System Of A Down, Glenn Close,” Glaser said.A post shared by John Dolmayan (@johndolmayan_)Now, Dolmayan has joined in on the joke and took to his official Instagram account to share a photo of System Of A Down with the 101 Dalmations actress’ photoshopped on his. “I guess the cats out of the bag thanks to that a@#h*+£ @nikkiglaser,” began the caption of his post.He continued: “The fact is @glennclose wrote the drums for most of the second system album and had to come in to lock down decent takes of a few songs as I just couldn’t handle the difficulty and we were running out of time.

Thanks to @daronmalakian @serjtankian @shavoodadjian and @teamcoco for keeping the secret for so long. (a little known fact is that Conan [O’Brien] co-produced all our albums) I feel better that the truth is out there.”Dolmayan is not the only System Of A Down band member who has responded to Glaser’s joke.

Guitarist and vocalist Daron Malakian previously took to his Instagram to share a clip of the joke being made and wrote: “Bet you didn’t know!!!!