Kristen Bell Performs & Shouts Out First Responders During SAG Awards Monologue: “There Is No Way To Properly Express Our Gratitude”

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As the returning host of Sunday night’s SAG Awards on Netflix, Kristen Bell certainly knows her audience. “Everyone started out as a kid in somewhere Earth, going to bed and waking up every morning thinking, ‘It’s going to be me,’” says Bell. “So yes, Justin Timberlake owes us all a piece of that song.” It wasn’t Bell speaking when the program began however, as the show opened with a pre-recorded Hacks sketch of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) reading her monologue to her pitch team, before her agent Jimmy (Paul W.

Downs) comes and lets her know she isn’t actually going to host. The skit ends as Deborah receives the serum from The Substance, which came just in time for her hosting gig.

Mikey Madison, Bowen Yang, Jessica Williams and Jodie Foster followed up with “I’m an Actor” introductions before Bell took the stage, along with a surprise appearance from Harrison Ford who wouldn’t stop eating behind Williams as she spoke. “I told him to turn away!” shouted Williams as Ford turned his chair around to continue eating.

When Bell began her monologue, it was no surprise that one of the first things she did was mention the first responders to the recent LA wildfires. “The city and the people in it have been put through the ringer, and though this room is full of sparkles and glamor and also what the kids are calling ‘rizz’, the most attractive tables I need to point out are right over there,” she says as she gestures to the LA firefighters seated in the audience.  “There is no way to properly express our gratitude to all of you.