After announcing his complete list of winners last month, the Peabody Awards celebrated these winners in person on Sunday evening, with a ceremony to the organized by Roy Wood Jr.
The actor launched things inside the Beverly Wilshire jokingly: “The host last year was Kumail Nanjiani, so these are consecutive years with a minority host. The Peabodys will defend diversity, what would you say about this? Which means in a few months.
The event honored 34 winners through entertainment, documentary, news, podcast / radio, arts, children
And youth, the public service and the interactive and immersive programming, emphasizing the narration which reflects the social problems and the emerging voices of today. Baby meeting,, Riple,, Grief And Will & Harper were one of the recognized Hollywood projects.
“We are celebrating the fact that everyone in this room has done one of the most daring things you can do in these times, and that is simply telling the truth,” Wood told the crowd, recognizing the stress of having to know all the horrible things that happen in the world to tell the truth. “It is difficult to create things about terrible things without knowing all the terrible things. It’s difficult – that’s why I leave The Daily ShowIt was too much stress. “He then impregnated:” I work at CNN now [with comedy show Have I Got News For You]I don’t have to do anything but plug in Jake Tapper’s book. “”
Elsewhere in his monologue, Wood said to the winners – who knew they would win in advance – to be short and sweet, joking: “We want your acceptance speeches to be brief and full of sincerities that you do not really want to say, like apologies from Patti Lupone.” (The Broadway star apologized on Saturday for the previous comments she had made on Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.)
“We celebrate the storytellers who risk, who have made, who investigate, who create and light up,” said the actor before embarking on the categories, who presented a list of star presenters, notably Aloe Blaccac, Anna Kendrick, Andrew Lack, Benito Skinner, Indya Moore, Joel Kim
Booster, Jurnee Smollett, Linda Perry, Mandy Moore, Marissa Bode, Michael Schur, Nava Mau, Niecy Nash, Randall Park, Stephen Mercant, Uzo Aduba, Van Jones and Yvonne Orji.
The evening also presented two special honors, the first being the institutional price Peabody, awarded to Saturday Night Live. Jon Hamm presented, reflecting on the “secret sauce of the show has always” held a mirror and reflecting American culture for us – politics, contradictions, all of this, immediately. Yes, Snl Is wigs and benchmarks and concerts and gags and all that, but it is always something that dares to face that we really are. “”
Lorne Michaels was on site to accept, accompanied on stage by the old Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon and Fred Armisen.
“I don’t really deserve this, but in a way I do it,” said Michaels, noting: “During SNL 50 This year, which is surprising to say even that all these people returning from the first season, all being in one room, playing and applauding, I think it was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I do not plan a 60th, but I think that doing what I do is somehow everything that makes me happy; It also makes me angry.
To close the evening, Andrea Mitchell received the career prize, while she was thinking about her first days in the news and to what extent women have traveled the company. She added: “We, all journalists, must be intrepid. It is not an exaggeration to say that strong journalism, providing precise information to the American people, is essential to the survival of our democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Continental Congress in 1787 “, if I should not decide if we must have a government without preferring the government.
