“After Announcing Its Full List of Winners Last Month, The Peabody Awards Celebrated Those Honorees in Person on Sunday Night, With A La Ceremony Hosted by Roy Wood Jr. The Comedian Kicked Things Off Inside the Beverly Wilshire by Joking, “Last Year’s Host Was Kumail Nanjiani, So That Is Back-To-Back Years With A Minority Host.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Comedian Kicked Things Off Inside The Beverly Wilshire by Joking, “Last Year’s Host Was Kumail Nanjiani WHICH MEANS IN A FEW MONHS, The WHITE HUSE WILL CUTH FUNDING AND SOYHL HAVE JOHN MULANEY, THAT’S ON Y’all. ”
The Event Honored 34 Winners Across Entertainment, Documentary, News, Podcast/Radio, Arts, Children’s
And Youth, Public Service, and Interactive and Immersive Programming, With A Focus on Storytelling That Reflects The Social Issues and Emerging Voices of Today. Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Shogun an Will & Harper Were Among the Recognized Hollywood Projects.
“We’re Celebrating the fact that everyone in this room have done one of the boldest things you can do in the Tese Times, and that is Just Straight Up Tell The Truth,“ Wood Told The Crowd. Horrible Things Going on in the World to Tell the Truth. “IT’s HARD TO CREATE STUFF About Terrible Things Without Knowing All of the Terrible Things. It’s Hard – That’s Wy and Quit The Daily ShowIt Was Too Much Stress. ” HE THEN DEADPANNED, “I WORK AT CNN NOW[WITHComedyShow[withcomedyshowHave I Got News for You]I Ain’T Got to Do Nothing But Plug Jake Tapper’s Book. ”
Elsewhere in his Monologue, Wood told The Winners – Who Knewhe Be Winning AHEAD OF TIME – TO Be Sweet and Sweet DON’T REALLY MEAN, LIKE An Apology From Patti Lupone. ” (The Broadway Star Apologized On Saturday for Previous Comments She Had Made About Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.)
“We’re Celebrating the Storytelers Who Risk, Who Did, Who Investigate, Who Create and Illuminate,“ The Comedian Declared Before Launcing Into The Categories, Which Feat. INCLUDING ALOE CLACC, 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 Merchant, Uzo Aduba, Van Jones And Yvenne.
The Night Also Featured Two Special Honors, The First Being The Peabdy Institutional Award, Given To Saturday Night Live. Jon Hamm Presiented, Musion The “Secret Sauce of the Show Has Always Been” Holding Up A Mirror and Reflection America’s Culture to Us – Politics, Contradctions, All of You, Right Back. YES, Snl is Wigs and Cue Cards and Gigs and Gags and All of this Stuff, But It’s Always Something Dares to Confront Who We Really Are. ”
Lorne Michaels Was on Hand to Accept, Accompanged on Stage by Alums Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon and Fred Armisen.
“I DON’T REALLY DESERVE THIS, BUT IN A WAY I DO,“ Michaels Teased, Noting, “Dringing Snl 50 This year, which is stunning to even say, all of thoss people coming Back from the first season on, all being in one room, performing and applauding, i THINK WAS ON MOST MOST MOVING I’m not planning a 60th, but i THINK THAT Getting to do what i get to do is sort of Everything that make me happy; It Also Makes Me Angry. ”
To close Out of the Night, Andrea Mitchell Was Given the Career Achievement Award, as She Reflected on her Early Days in News and Hown Far Women Have Come in the Business. She added, “All of US Journalists have to be Fearless. It is no exaggeration to say that strong journalism, Providing Accurate Information to The American People, Is Critical To. Thomas Jefferson Wrote to the Continental Congress in 1787, ‘Were It Left to Me to Decide Wheether We SHOULD HAVE A GOVERNMENT to prefer the latter. ”