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 internet hosting the Grammys. I’m enthusiastic about that, yeah,” he mentioned on the podcast. “It’s quite a lot of enjoyable. I benefit from the Grammys as a result of I get to observe the present in particular person after which expertise and touch upon it in particular person whereas it’s taking place.”
This would be the fourth consecutive Grammy telecast that Noah has hosted. As we discovered when the nominations have been introduced on Nov. 10, Noah can also be a present Grammy nominee for greatest comedy album for I Want You Would. Noah is barely the fifth Grammy host who was nominated that very same 12 months. And he may turn into simply the second Grammy host to win a Grammy throughout a present she or he hosted. The primary was Kenny Rogers, who gained 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. However he didn’t host that 12 months; he took over the next 12 months. (Alicia Keys hosted the present the place he was a winner.)
Noah may 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 12 months. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins are govt producers.The present will likely be broadcast stay from Crypto.com Area 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 stay and on-demand on Paramount+.
Noah, 40, is greatest recognized for internet hosting Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present from 2015-22. He gained a Primetime Emmy in 2017 for a internet hosting a spin-off present, The Day by day Present – Behind the Scenes, which was voted excellent brief kind selection collection.
Listed below are all of the hosts of the stay Grammy telecast (which started in 1971) who have been nominees that very same 12 months.
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Kenny Rogers
Telecast date: Feb. 27, 1980
Grammy nods that 12 months: 5 (album of the 12 months for The Gambler; report of the 12 months 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 Want Is You,” a collab with Dottie West)
Grammy wins that 12 months: 1 (greatest nation vocal efficiency, male for “The Gambler”)
Notes: Rogers is the one particular person to be nominated in a “Huge 4” class throughout a telecast she or he hosted. Rogers was up for each report and album of the 12 months. He additionally teamed with Donna Summer season to carry out a medley of track of the 12 months nominees.
Telecast date: Feb. 25, 1986
Grammy nods that 12 months: 1 (greatest nation efficiency by a duo or group with vocal for “Actual Love,” a collab with Dolly Parton)
Grammy wins that 12 months: 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 12 months: 2 (greatest pop vocal efficiency, male for “Late within the Night”; album of authentic rating written for a movement image or a tv particular for One Trick Pony)
Grammy wins that 12 months: none
Notes: This was the one Grammy telecast Simon hosted. Early within the present, he mentioned drolly, “I’m very completely satisfied to be right here. It’s not solely an amazing honor to be requested, however I feel it’s a really good profession transfer as nicely.” Later, he carried out the nominated “Late within the Night.”
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John Denver
Telecast date: Feb. 28, 1984
Grammy nods that 12 months: 1 (greatest recording for kids for Rocky Mountain Vacation, a collab with The Muppets)
Grammy wins that 12 months: none
Notes: Denver, internet hosting for the fifth time, skipped a gap monologue, as a substitute promising “a present so scorching it’s going to pop if we don’t get proper 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 night time. Denver teamed with Jerry Nelson (Floyd the Muppet) to carry out “Gone Fishin,’” a observe from their nominated kids’s album. Denver hosted six Grammy telecasts in all. Just 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 12 months: 1 (greatest jazz vocal albumfor The Dana Owens Album)
Grammy wins that 12 months: none
Notes: This was the one Grammy telecast Queen Latifah hosted. She carried out a medley of two songs from her nominated album, “Child Get Misplaced” and the jazz commonplace “Lush Life.”
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Trevor Noah
Telecast date: Feb. 4, 2024
Grammy nods that 12 months: 1 (greatest comedy album for I Want You Would)
Grammy wins that 12 months: To be decided
Notes: That is the fourth consecutive Grammy telecast that Noah has hosted. He’s the second comic to host 4 occasions, following Garry Shandling (whose internet hosting assignments weren’t consecutive).
