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Critics Choice Awards Host Chelsea Handler Roasts Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Ralph Fiennes & Colin Farrell In Opening Monologue


Chelsea Handler took aim at Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in Opening Monologue of Critics Choice Awards

Chelsea Handler opening the Critics Choice Awards on FridayGetty Images Without saying the actual words ‘Donald Trump’, Critics Choice Awards host Chelsea Handler fired up her monologue with jokes where Golden Globe host Nikki Glaser feared to go: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. “Thank you for providing us with distraction,” Handler said to the duo who aren’t here at the ceremony today, “We’re all grateful and I think we’re good.” In 2025, the easiest way for a woman to get a late-night show is to get the creators of Hacks to write a fictional story about it.”.

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