Golden Globes host Jarrod Carmichael, who didn’t shy away from calling out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association or taking shots at Scientology at Tuesday night’s ceremony, is under fire for mentioning the late Whitney Houston.
After coming back from the commercial break, Carmichael said he was asked to give a “shoutout” to the venue hosting the event and did so with this eyebrow-raising name drop: “So, here we are. , Live, from the hotel that killed Whitney Houston, Beverly Hilton. Whitney was found dead in her hotel room in 2012.
Pat Houston, the late singer’s sister-in-law and executor, also manages her estate and tells tmz Through a rep on Wednesday, “the Whitney Houston estate is dismayed at the joke, and felt it was in poor taste.”
Many viewers agreed with Pat Houston, including one that Tweeted The joke was found to be “awkward and vulgar” as well as “disgusting”.
However, some thought that Carmichael was criticizing the HFPA or the hotel itself since it had been asked to promote the venue that traditionally hosted the show.
“You’re pulling a Jarrod Carmichael, but I don’t think that Whitney Houston line was a ‘joke'” @cheyennebeam_ wrote, “I think he was not only calling out GG and HFPA for actually celebrating and hosting the event at BHH but requesting that he actually leave the hotel during his monologue.”
Another onlooker agreed that Carmichael did not mean any disrespect to Whitney herself.
“It’s always interesting to see what people are offended by. Jerrod Carmichael’s Whitney joke wasn’t an attack on Whitney. It was at Beverly Hilton. There’s a lot of suspected foul play in what happened, but all you black men out there.” eager to pit against black women. Tweeted @devinjaielle,
She added, “The man came out in front of the world and called it and people made it out to be a ‘disrespectful black woman moment’. I say this as a proud, confident black woman… y’all wrong.” Most do for things.”
