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The comedian ended his opening monologue by asking former President Barack Obama, who “got us all hopped on hope and change,” to come back and address “it.” Added Carmichael, “The nation needs to heal.” I’ve got so many homophobic cousins - I can’t even heal my family.” ‘Heal the nation’? I’ve been gay for like 48 hours, bro! There’s so much gay stuff I gotta do before I can heal the nation. He continued, “We’re basically like an Andy Warhol fever dream right now. Honestly, if you’re gay in New York, you get to host Saturday Night Live. This is the gayest thing you can possibly do.” If you say you’re gay in New York, you can ride the bus for free, and people just give you pizza. “ is nice but an expected response in New York,” he said, referring to the audience’s applause. The host also said that, although he wasn’t planning to address the moment in his monologue, SNL honcho Lorne Michaels specifically asked him to discuss it because “the nation needs to heal.”Ĭarmichael went on to talk about coming out as gay in his new special on HBO, Rothaniel. He added that on Monday, it was exciting, and Tuesday it was still exciting, but by Wednesday, “I wanted to kill myself,” he joked. Doesn’t this feel like it happened years ago?” Carmichael said. He went on to ask the audience if they wanted to talk about it, if they weren’t sick about it and if they could believe that it only happened six days ago.

“I’m not gonna talk about it,” he began his monologue. Later, host Jerrod Carmichael also addressed the slap in his opening monologue, saying he wasn’t going to talk about “it.” Despite focusing nearly his entire monologue on the incident, he never once directly mentioned the Oscars, the Academy, Smith or Rock.

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