Richard Ayoade's HILARIOUS opening monologue at the BAFTAs 2022 | BBC

good evening and in a way welcome the first thing i want to say is thank you for not judging me i i like many of you need or feel the need for money [Applause] so here i am it would help me if you could just imagine that i'm doing this well we here and we are in some ways here hi all want the same thing and i'm here to reassure you that yes this will eventually end i it won't feel like it will i don't know who's won what and it's not just because i don't care it's also because no one here trusts me and that sentence still applies if i remove the word here this is the last time i'll be hosting these awards please unless for some reason they asked me back in which case this will be the second to last time i host these awards and i'm simply hashtag honoured in in bafta's 75th year or baftag let's give it a proper name in bafta's 75th year the bbc's 100th and my 23rd thank you to say well done to all of you for the things you do or simply take credit for doing that's a job and regarding the things you don't do also congratulations um but perhaps not quite as many congratulations as due to sir david attenborough who is 96 today let's get some perspective here okay man's 96 is celebrating 75 years at the heart of our industry even though industries don't have hearts in 1955 there were only six categories there was barely enough time to get up from your seat and slap someone before the whole ceremony would be over but do not worry your overly filmed heads i'm not going to use your faces as punch lines or punch bags you've suffered enough no one works harder than us apart from people in other professions i'm putting in a couple of hours today i'm shattered i'm exhausted who will i take it out on like many in this business we call show i can't offer you love what i can offer you is so much better baftas later this evening we will honor a comedy colossus receive a touching tribute from east anglia's allen partridge and encounter our new doctor who that's right but before that let's remind ourselves of which television treats slipped down most readily in the past 12 months

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Length: 3min 59sec (239 seconds)

Published: Tue May 24 2022