Deon Cole hosted the NAACP Image Award at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, February 28, and opened his monologue with a joke about the racial slur incident at the BAFTAs recently.
The 54-year-old comedian and actor jokingly prayed to God, saying, “Lord, before you go, if there are any white men here in the audience with Tourette’s Syndrome, I advise you to tell them they better read the room tonight, Lord. It might not turn out the way they think. Whatever medicine they’re on, they better double it, Lord.”
Cole addressed the controversy over Tourette’s activist John Davidson shouting a racial slur while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo accepted an award on stage.
THE Average Joe The star also joked about Nicki Minaj and her recent political alliance with the MAGA movement, saying, “Lord, we want you to bless our sister Nicki Minaj. She’s been through a lot lately and hasn’t been herself, Lord,” joking that her cosmetic injections were “affecting her brain.”
The NAACP Awards stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and celebrates the arts through different mediums, including film, theater, music and literature, created each year.
