Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael got here under fire Tuesday night for a joke he made concerning the late Whitney Houston during a somewhat lackluster awards ceremony.
“Coming to you from the Beverly Hills Hotel, the hotel that killed Whitney Houston,” Carmichael, 35, said to a stunned audience.
The host then continued his opening monologue wherein he said the one reason he was chosen as host was the indisputable fact that he was black, a not-so-subtle jab on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s highly-panned lack of diversity.
Houston died in 2012 on the age of 48 after by chance drowning in a bath on the hotel. A coroner later ruled that heart disease and cocaine played a task within the singer’s death.
Twitter users didn’t wanna dance with Carmichael’s jokes.
“Okay that Whitney Houston joke was… yikes. Not good,” tweeted one viewer.
“I didn’t like that Whitney Houston joke in any respect. That was so tasteless and disrespectful to her,” slammed one other.
“‘The hotel that killed Whitney Houston’?? Pls never hire this guy again. Horrible host” wrote a 3rd person.
The comedian also took some jabs at other celebrities in addition to the antisemitic remarks made by Kanye West recently.
“I saw [‘The Fabelmans’] with Kanye,” said Carmichael, referencing Steven Spielberg’s film that was up for an award, “and it modified every part for him. That’s how good you might be.”
