Deon Cole hosted the NAACP Image Award at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Saturday, February 28, and opened his monologue with a joke about the recent racial debacle at the BAFTAs.
The 54-year-old comedian and actor jokingly prayed to God, saying: “Lord, before we go, if there are any white men out here in the audience with Tourette’s, I advise you to tell them they better read the room tonight, Lord. It might not work out the way they think. Whatever medicine they’re on, they better double up on it, Lord.
Cole was referring to the controversy over Tourette’s activist John Davidson shouting a racial slur while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presented with an award on stage.
The Average Joe the star also joked about Nicki Minaj and her recent political alliance with the MAGA movement, saying, “Lord, we want you to bless our sister Nicki Minaj. She’s been through a lot lately and hasn’t been herself, Lord,” joking that her cosmetic injections have “affected her brain.”
The NAACP Awards stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and celebrates the arts across various media, including film, theater, music and literature, created each year.
