In one of her bits on stage, Handler, who is responsible for a long and growing list of shows that were canceled after one or two seasons, joked that there have been a lot of biographical movies lately
''It was a huge year for biopics — Anora, about Melania Trump,'' she said.
The 2024 film Anora is described as following the life of a ''young sex worker from Brooklyn'' who ''meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened.''
Handler next attacked actress Cheryl Hines for daring to be married to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., by quipping that actors who didn't win anything at the awards show ''will just be in the background, questioning your life choices, like Cheryl Hines at a Senate confirmation hearing.''
The comedienne also took a shot at President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...over his efforts to eliminate bad boy, race-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies by calling herself a DEI hire. She then joked, ''I wanna acknowledge that we've been through a lot lately — our entire country, waking up every day, not knowing what news we're gonna hear that will disappoint and horrify us..''
This is the third year in a row that Handler has emceed the Critics Choice Awards.
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''This is true. I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing,'' Handler told Jimmy Fallon ahead of her hosting duties at her first Critics Choice Awards hosting gig.