Trevor Noah to Host 2025 Grammy Awards, Where He Is Also a Nominee
One week after confirming that the 2025 Grammy telecast is still set for Feb. 2, despite the wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles for the past week, The Recording Academy announced that Trevor Noah will host the show for the fifth consecutive year.
Noah will be the first comedian to host the show five times. The only other people to host five or more Grammy telecasts were all musical artists. Andy Williams leads with seven shows, followed by John Denver with six and LL Cool J, also with five.
This will be third time that Noah has hosted in a stressful situation. He was also the host of the 2021 and 2022 telecasts, which were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As revealed when the nominations were announced on Nov. 8, Noah is also a current Grammy nominee for best comedy album for Where Was I. Noah was nominated in that same category last year for I Wish You Would. Noah is the first Grammy host who was also a nominee on two shows that he or she hosted.
Noah received his first Grammy nod five years ago for his album Son of Patricia, which was a finalist for best comedy album. But he didn’t host that year; he took over the following year. (Alicia Keys hosted the show where he was a winner.)
Noah will also serve as a producer of the 67th annual Grammy Awards, which will be produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy for the fifth consecutive year. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins are executive producers. The show will be broadcast live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on CBS from 8 to 11:30 p.m. ET/5 to 8:30 p.m. PT, and will be available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.
Noah is best known for hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show from 2015 to 2022. He won a Primetime Emmy in 2017 for the hosting a spin-off show The Daily Show – Behind the Scenes, which was voted outstanding short form variety series.
Noah, 40, was born eight days before the 1984 Grammy telecast, which remains the top-rated Grammy telecast of all time. That was the year Michael Jackson set a new record with eight Grammy wins in one night (even though he declined to perform on the biggest night of his career.) Relive the show here.
Here are all the hosts of the live Grammy telecast (which began in 1971) who were nominees that same year.
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