Seth Rogen ripped the 2021 Emmy Awards and its celebrity attendees for not following COVID-19 safety protocols Sunday while presenting at the award show.
“Let me start by saying there is way too many of us in this little room! What are we doing?” the award-winning actor, director, and comedian said while presenting the first award of the evening. “They said this was outdoors! It’s not! They lied to us.”
The award show was one of the first to restore in-person broadcasts, but few attendees could be seen wearing masks or practicing social distancing.
Rogen said he had been placed in a “hermetically sealed tent.”
“I would not have come to this,” he said. “Why is there a roof? It is more important that we have three chandeliers than that we make sure we don’t kill Eugene Levy tonight. That is what has been decided.”
Rogen, 39, was apparently referring to the fact that Levy’s age, 74, places him at greater risk for the virus.
“I went from wiping my groceries to having Paul Bettany sneeze in my face. That’s a big week,” Rogen concluded. “If anyone is going to sneeze in my face, Paul, I want it to be you. All right, that’s all the jokes I wrote.”
The host of the awards sought to clarify the conditions of the show following Rogen’s monologue.
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“It actually feels amazing in here, unlike what Seth was talking about,” Cedric the Entertainer said. “It feels good. We’re all vaxxed. We had to get vaxxed to come here.”
