Jerrod Carmichael takes aim at Tom Cruise, Scientology with Golden Globes joke
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Tom Cruise won’t be making up with the Golden Globes any time soon.
Host Jerrod Carmichael took sharp aim at the superstar actor and the Church of Scientology of which Cruise has been a prominent member — just seconds before introducing the actor’s Top Gun: Maverick co-stars Glenn Powell and Jay Ellis — during the awards telecast airing Tuesday on NBC.
As the show returned from a commercial break, Carmichael came on stage holding three Golden Globe statues.
“Backstage, I found these three Golden Globe awards that Tom Cruise returned,” Carmichael said to laughter in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, alluding to Cruise famously sending back his Globes in protest of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of Black voters in 2021.
“I’m just the host… but I have a pitch,” said Carmichael. “I think maybe we take these three things and exchange them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige.”
That, right there, is more brutal than anything famed Globes Ricky Gervais provocateur ever said during his notoriously edgy hosting duties in roasting Hollywood and the HFPA.
So who is Shelly Miscavige?
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Tom Cruise may be the world’s biggest movie star, but he is still perceived by many as a “brainwashed” “cult” member.