Hollywood icon takes aim at Kanye West over vile antisemitic posts at Critics Choice Awards
The host did not hold back.
Kanye West was just one of the celebrities Chelsea Handler took aim at while hosting the Critics Choice Awards 2025.
The ceremony took place on Friday night as celebrities poured into Barker 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 proceeded with a gag about Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal dispute, before launching into Ye’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.
Handler had a no-bars-held approach as a host (Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)‘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.’
‘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.
Then came the moment most people probably anticipated, as, 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.
