Chelsea Handler mocks Blake Lively and Kanye West in savage Critics Choice takedown
The host did not hold back.
Blake Lively and Kanye West were just two of the celebrities Chelsea Handler took aim at while hosting the Critics Choice Award.
The awards ceremony took place on Friday night as celebrities poured intoBarker Hangar in Santa Monica to celebrate the achievements in filmmaking and television over the past year.
None of the A-listers were safe from Handler’s cutting remarks as the host took aim at Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl sex scenes and joked that Ariana Grande was ‘dating a munchkin’.
She then joked about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal dispute and Kanye West’s controversial antisemitic tweets.
Handler thanked Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41 – who were not present – for providing a ‘distraction’ from all the negative news.
‘Waking up every day, not knowing what news we are going to hear will disappoint or horrify us, it is so important to have a distraction in times like these.
‘And that’s why I want to personally extend my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Thank you for providing us with that distraction. I’m grateful, we’re all grateful.’
Handler had a no-bars-held approach as a host (Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)‘I think everybody in this room, no matter whose side you’re on, we can all agree to accept that there’s probably not gonna be a sequel,’ she joked.
‘It ends with us, guys,’ Handler added.
She also took aim at Kanye West who was also not present. While introducing Jesse Eisenberg to present the award for best supporting actress, she joked that Eisenberg was ‘from a movie we know Kanye West didn’t see.’
Eisenberg starred and directed A Real Pain, a movie that focuses on two Jewish cousins who travel to Poland to honour their grandmother and learn about each other as old tensions rise.
