NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) – Months after his departure from “The Every day Present” in late 2022, comic Trevor Noah received a Webby Award for comedy within the “America’s Door Drawback” section of the late-night discuss present, during which he pushes for gun management and criticizes policymakers’ response to mass shootings.
The twenty seventh Annual Webby Awards – which shall be handed out on Could 15 in what is named the web’s largest evening – additionally honor work that includes singers Rihanna, Lizzo and Doja Cat, former President Barack Obama and the solid of Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Without end.”
The awards have a legacy of rewarding work that challenges cultural, social, and leisure norms to make data extra accessible.
In Noah’s section, he skewers the beliefs of some conservatives that books, important race principle, video video games and rap music result in gun violence.
“Yeah, that’s proper, that’s how evil important race principle is — it is solely been round for like a yr and it’s already brought on three many years of college shootings,” Noah stated.
“I do know you guys need to blame something however weapons, however it nonetheless has to make sense. Can we agree on that? You possibly can’t simply blame stuff you’re already mad at,” he added.
The Webbys additionally honored emoji creator Shigetaka Kurita with a lifetime achievement award, AI writing device ChatGPT with the breakout of the yr award and SZA for artist of the yr.
The in-person award present will happen at Cipriani Wall Road in New York Metropolis with the correspondent for the “The Every day Present,” Roy Wooden Jr., internet hosting for the second time.
Some notable previous winners embody discuss present host Stephen Colbert, comic Sarah Silverman, tv producer Lorne Michaels and French filmmaker Michel Gondry.
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