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The 2025 Awards Season in Opening Monologues
From Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globes to Roy Wood Jr. at the Writers Guild Awards, here’s what Conan O’Brien is up against this weekend.
While Roy Wood Jr. has demonstrated during past hosting gigs that he’s perfectly comfortable setting up the pins and knocking them down, he’s at his best when he’s weaving jokes into larger themes, which is the approach he took in this year’s Writers Guild Awards opening. He made jokes referencing the emerging tech oligopoly (“When you think about the power structure in this country right now, the next four years are being plotted out by maybe two or three people — or, as y’all call it, ‘a mini-room’”), and the widespread reversal of DEI initiatives was a clear through-line. She’s been very naked out here.” Cole proceeded to file requests for divine intervention on behalf of Candace Owens, Kirk Franklin, and Shannon Sharpe, the last of whom he joked could use God’s help to find clothes that fit (“He keeps buying up the mediums all over.
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