Trevor Noah’s awkward delivery may be leading to misinterpretation. On Sunday night, the former “Daily Show” star hosted the 2025 Grammy Awards, and his opening monologue for the event seemed to fall flat.

Grammy Awards host Trevor Noah also paid tribute to Los Angeles and lightly campaigned for Beyoncé to win Album of the Year.

In the midst of a wave of state violence against Latine immigrants in the United States, the host of the 67th Annual Grammy Awards Trevor Noah has made the Internet angry after he took aim at Shakira during his opening monologue,

Trevor Noah’s opening monologue at the 2025 Grammy Awards didn’t land as smoothly as expected, with some jokes coming across as rushed and unclear. Noah seemed to stumble through punchlines, making his anti-Trump humor—particularly jokes about undocumented immigrants and Shakira—difficult to interpret.