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 mishap at the BAFTAs recently.
The 54-year-old comedian and actor jokingly prayed to God, saying, “Lord, before we go, if there are any white men here in the audience with Tourette syndrome, I advise you to tell them they better read the room tonight, Lord. It may not work out the way they think. Whatever medication they’re taking, they better double it, Lord.”
Cole addressed the controversy over Tourette activist John Davidson yelling a racial slur while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo received an award on stage.
He 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 going through a lot lately and hasn’t been herself, Lord,” joking that her cosmetic injections have been “affecting her brain.”
The NAACP Awards represent the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and celebrate the arts in different media, including film, theater, music and literature, created each year.
