Trevor Noah will host the 2024 Grammy Awards, that are set for Feb. 4. The comic made the announcement on his Spotify podcast What Now? With Trevor Noah early on Thursday (Dec. 14).
“I’m hosting the Grammys. I’m excited about that, yeah,” he mentioned on the podcast. “It’s a lot of fun. I enjoy the Grammys because I get to watch the show in person and then experience and comment on it in person while it’s happening.”
This would be the fourth consecutive Grammy telecast that Noah has hosted. As we realized when the nominations have been introduced on Nov. 10, Noah can also be a present Grammy nominee for greatest comedy album for I Wish You Would. Noah is just the fifth Grammy host who was nominated that very same yr. And he might develop into simply the second Grammy host to win a Grammy throughout a present she or he hosted. The first was Kenny Rogers, who received greatest nation vocal efficiency, male for “The Gambler” on the 1980 telecast.
Noah acquired his first Grammy nod 4 years in the past for his album Son of Patricia, which was a finalist for greatest comedy album. But he didn’t host that yr; he took over the next yr. (Alicia Keys hosted the present the place he was a winner.)
Noah will even function a producer of the 66th annual Grammy Awards, which will likely be produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy for the fourth consecutive yr. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins are govt producers.The present will likely be broadcast reside from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on CBS from 8-11:30 p.m. ET/5-8:30 p.m. PT and will likely be accessible to stream reside and on-demand on Paramount+.
Noah, 40, is greatest identified for internet hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show from 2015-22. He received a Primetime Emmy in 2017 for a internet hosting a spin-off present, The Daily Show – Behind the Scenes, which was voted excellent quick kind selection sequence.
Here are all of the hosts of the reside Grammy telecast (which started in 1971) who have been nominees that very same yr.
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Kenny Rogers
Telecast date: Feb. 27, 1980
Grammy nods that yr: 5 (album of the yr for The Gambler; document of the yr and greatest nation vocal efficiency, male for “The Gambler”; greatest pop vocal efficiency, male for “She Believes in Me”; greatest nation vocal efficiency by a duo or group for “All I Ever Need Is You,” a collab with Dottie West)
Grammy wins that yr: 1 (greatest nation vocal efficiency, male for “The Gambler”)
Notes: Rogers is the one particular person to be nominated in a “Big Four” class throughout a telecast she or he hosted. Rogers was up for each document and album of the yr. He additionally teamed with Donna Summer to carry out a medley of music of the yr nominees.
Telecast date: Feb. 25, 1986
Grammy nods that yr: 1 (greatest nation efficiency by a duo or group with vocal for “Real Love,” a collab with Dolly Parton)
Grammy wins that yr: none
Notes: These have been the one two Grammy telecasts Rogers hosted. Rogers is the one Grammy host who was a nominee each occasions she or he hosted the present.
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Paul Simon
Telecast date: Feb. 25, 1981
Grammy nods that yr: 2 (greatest pop vocal efficiency, male for “Late in the Evening”; album of unique rating written for a movement image or a tv particular for One Trick Pony)
Grammy wins that yr: none
Notes: This was the one Grammy telecast Simon hosted. Early within the present, he mentioned drolly, “I am very happy to be here. It’s not only a great honor to be asked, but I think it’s a very nice career move as well.” Later, he carried out the nominated “Late in the Evening.”
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John Denver
Telecast date: Feb. 28, 1984
Grammy nods that yr: 1 (greatest recording for kids for Rocky Mountain Holiday, a collab with The Muppets)
Grammy wins that yr: none
Notes: Denver, internet hosting for the fifth time, skipped a gap monologue, as a substitute promising “a show so hot it’s going to pop if we don’t get right into it.” He was proper about that. This was the highest-rated Grammy telecast of all time, the one the place a red-hot Michael Jackson turned the primary artist to win eight Grammys in a single evening. Denver teamed with Jerry Nelson (Floyd the Muppet) to carry out “Gone Fishin,’” a monitor from their nominated youngsters’s album. Denver hosted six Grammy telecasts in all. Only one Grammy host has equaled or bettered that mark: Andy Williams hosted the primary seven telecasts.
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Queen Latifah
Telecast Date: Feb. 13, 2005
Grammy nods that yr: 1 (greatest jazz vocal albumfor The Dana Owens Album)
Grammy wins that yr: none
Notes: This was the one Grammy telecast Queen Latifah hosted. She carried out a medley of two songs from her nominated album, “Baby Get Lost” and the jazz customary “Lush Life.”
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Trevor Noah
Telecast date: Feb. 4, 2024
Grammy nods that yr: 1 (greatest comedy album for I Wish You Would)
Grammy wins that yr: To be decided
Notes: This is the fourth consecutive Grammy telecast that Noah has hosted. He is the second comic to host 4 occasions, following Garry Shandling (whose internet hosting assignments weren’t consecutive).
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