The internet was in stitches after rapper Snoop Dogg mispronounced Ben Affleck's surname while announcing the first half of the nominations for this year's Golden Globes.
Early Monday morning in Los Angeles, Hollywood Foreign Press President Helen Hoehner gave the rapper the stage, saying, “And now to help me announce the 79th Annual Golden Globe nominees, please welcome a special guest… Snoop Dogg.”
The "Gang Signs" rapper graced the press with his appearance donning Locs sunglasses and a red beanie with the word, "Murder Was The Case"—a nod to one of his hit songs—stitched across the front.
Golden Globes: Snoop Dogg mispronounces Ben Affleck, more stars' names during nominations announcement https://dlvr.it/SFK8tk\u00a0 via @foxnews— Chris \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Chris \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1639450598
When it came to presenting some of the more difficult nominations with foreign names, he managed to pull it off–including the surnames of Belfast director, Kenneth Branaugh and The French Dispatch composer Alexandre Desplat.
He narrowly avoided butchering the names of Dune Director Denis Villeneuve–which became "Villeneuva"–and Belfast star Ciarán Hinds–which he pronounced as "Karan Hinds."
But what many people were cackling about was his mispronunciation of Ben Affleck–who was up for his performance in The Tender Bar.
Snoop Dogg is 'pure comedy' mispronouncing names at the Golden Globes https://trib.al/lRcjyyC\u00a0pic.twitter.com/CwNzghVZZ9— Page Six (@Page Six) 1639472469
When reading "Affleck," Snoop Dogg placed the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAble but then quickly gave it another try followed by an apology.
The most hilarious part of the #GoldenGlobes nom announcement was Snoop Dogg mispronouncing Ben Affleck\u2019s name. pic.twitter.com/E9dtBLmSAt— Nancy Wang Yuen (@Nancy Wang Yuen) 1639405863
The 50-year-old announced:
“Best Performer by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Ben Uhffleck… Ben Affleck. My fault… sorry about that, Ben.”
Take a listen.
Tomato, tomato, Aff-leck, Affleck \n@SnoopDogg @BenAffleck #GoldenGlobespic.twitter.com/w5o4IiXZQc— Golden Globe Awards (@Golden Globe Awards) 1639414557
The internet was here for Snoop Dogg's "high-performance art," as touted by Buzzfeed News.
.@SnoopDogg\u2019s dramatic reading of Kenneth Branagh and Been Affleck should get a Golden Globe nomination. Consider this my write-in ballot.pic.twitter.com/uRkizELhUH— Reshma Gopaldas (@Reshma Gopaldas) 1639405572
The Golden Globes just brought on Snoop Dogg to announce this morning's nominations.... I can't. Camp!— Kyle Buchanan (@Kyle Buchanan) 1639404820
Snoop Dogg painstakingly mispronouncing the name of every nominee at the #GoldenGlobes, even Ben Affleck, is verging on performance artpic.twitter.com/UQRqelJMpw— Anita Singh (@Anita Singh) 1639405409
Only snoop could get away with it!— Richard (@Richard) 1639500208
You can watch the full clip of the nominee announcements for the 2022 Golden Globes here.
NBC will not be broadcasting the 2022 Golden Globes as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been reforming its organization since April after experiencing fallout for a lack of diversity in their membership as well as "questionable standards and conduct."
In May, NBC stated despite believing the HFPA was committed to "meaningful reform," they were aware a "change of this magnitude takes time and work," adding they felt "strongly the HFPA needs time to do it right."
"As such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes. Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January 2023.”
Erika Lee
