No version of this year's Golden Globes telecast could avoid being awkward. NBC declined to air the awards show in 2022 in response to a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigative report enumerating all the ways that its sponsoring organization, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was exclusionary and ethically compromised – including the glaring detail that not one Black journalist was in its ranks.
That brings us to the 2023 awards show, where comedian and writer Jerrod Carmichael made history by becoming the first Black performer to host the Globes solo in its 80 years.
