Trevor Noah has been granted hosting duties for the Grammy Awards for the third consecutive year. Clearly popular with both audiences and production, the comedian was an easy choice to take command of the 65th annual awards ceremony after guiding the broadcast through the most uncertain depths of the pandemic.
“I’m really grateful to be doing this for a third time. You don’t expect to do the Grammys once, and you don’t expect for them to call you back twice,” Noah told ESSENCE exclusively during a conversation leading up to the highly anticipated ceremony. “So the third time is, hopefully, as charming as it was the first and second times.”
“Every year has been different for different reasons. Obviously, the first time was a show designed specifically for a pandemic, and then, the second year was everyone recovering from a pandemic. So it feels like this year’s going to be a huge celebration.”
Upon the show’s big return to a full audience and a less socially distant layout, Noah let us in on a little secret to his ability to charm and entertain the most star-studded crowd in music so effortlessly year after year.
“I’m going to be honest. I cheat really. I’m a fan who just comes to watch the show with everyone else. So I guess, technically, I’m a host, but I’m just there to see everybody in person.”
Executive Producer Ben Winston weighed in on some of the more technical changes that have been made to the show over the last two years to make it both safe and engaging for the audience. The Later…With Jools Holland-style performance handoffs, the additional pre-taped segments, and more that…
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