For you, the casual or hardcore fan of popular music, the Grammys are exciting and fun, a chance to hear some of your favorite musicians play their hits and passion projects live in front of a huge television audience. (Kesha and Kendrick Lamar especially crushed it in each of their performances.)
But if you’re one of the many musicians nominated for a Grammy Award, and really hoping to win, and counting on the career advancement those accolades would bring, it’s a stressful, nerve-wracking night. And then, if that win doesn’t come, it’s just a huge bummer. Grammys host James Corden had a great solution, one that could comfort the winners while also delighting everybody else in the room: puppies!
“I don’t want anyone to be upset tonight, so the good news is nobody goes home empty-handed because all night we will be handing out consolation puppies,” Corden said. “So if you didn’t get a Grammy, you get a puppy.”
And so, shortly after Dave Chappelle unsurprisingly won Best Comedy Album for The Age of Spin / Deep in the Heart of Texas, his competition got puppies. Sarah Silverman got a puppy. Jim Gaffigan got a puppy. Jerry Seinfeld got a puppy. And they all seemed more excited about that puppy than Bruno Mars was about winning just about every Grammy given out last night.