Tiffany Haddish Mispronounced Names During Oscar Nominations and Twitter Loved Her for It
January 23, 2018Tiffany Haddish may have been snubbed for an Oscar on Tuesday, but she did win Twitter’s heart.
The 38-year-old comedian, known for her breakout role in Girl’s Trip, joined Andy Serkis to host the nominations announcement for the 90th Academy Awards on Tuesday— and had the Internet ablaze with her mispronunciation of some of the nominees, including Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya.
“Daniel Kool-yay… Kal-a-loo… Kall-elujah… Daniel Kall-elujah… — You know it, he know his name!” she said.
Dressed in a black tuxedo pantsuit, Haddish remained in good spirits throughout her early morning flubs (it was 5:30 a.m. PT, after all). Among her other stumbles? Call Me By Your Name‘s screenwriter James Ivory and producers Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito; The Post‘s producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri‘s producers Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin.
“Missouri” proved to be a recurring problem as well, Haddish wavering between pronouncing the state “Missour-ie” and “Missour-a” while reading the film’s 7 nominations.
Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish
Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences
Twitter couldn’t get enough.
“I could watch Tiffany Haddish mispronounce names all morning,” said writer Joe Berkowitz.
“I had my name butchered at my college graduation but I would’ve been totally fine with it had it been Tiffany Haddish,” Teen Vogue writer Gabe Bergado said.
Added one user with a conspiracy theory: “They gave the Tiffany Haddish the hard names on purpose!”
I could watch Tiffany Haddish mispronounce names all morning.
— Joe Berkowitz (@JoeBerkowitz) January 23, 2018
Tiffany Haddish mispronouncing all the Oscar nominees' names is the best thing to happen in 2018 so far.
— Chase Hilton (@chasehilton22) January 23, 2018
late addition to the best picture oscar nominations – a video of tiffany haddish pronouncing things
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 23, 2018
Guys our girl Tiffany Haddish is slaughtering everyone’s names on this announcement.