As he closed the 68th Grammy Awards telecast, Trevor Noah thanked CBS and the Recording Academy for a hosting gig he said felt more like being a music fan and less like doing a job.
I guess that’s the vibe Noah and CBS were going for on Sunday night. It was less a curated and guided telecast with a host steering the proceedings with wit and control, and more Noah acting like a kid who won a ticket to the Grammys and was then abruptly handed a microphone and told to vamp for 10 minutes.
Nobody is going to come away from the Grammys telecast remembering any of Noah’s monologue speech, because there was no monologue speech. There were barely any jokes. It was really just Trevor Noah running around the floor at the arena formerly known as the Staples Center gushing about the talent in a Very small portion of the audience.