After arriving with a canine in tow, BAFTAs 2024 host David Tennant gave a six-minute monologue cracking jokes about Saltburn, the performing business, and the upcoming presidential race.

“It is clearly been a tumultuous 12 months for thus many within the movie business with the writers’ strike and the actors’ strike, however I have been chatting to BAFTA and asking, ‘Is the long run for screenwriters and actors wanting rosy?'” Tennant says within the clip above. “And I can inform you, they stated ‘Aye!’ Though they do spell that “AI“, so I do not…”

A short time later Tennant additionally will get a strong dig in in regards to the upcoming U.S. elections.

“Poor Issues, girls and gents,” he says, introducing the film, “the place a baby’s mind is put into an grownup’s physique. And later this 12 months, a kind of might even be re-elected president.”

You possibly can see the total listing of BAFTAs 2024 winners right here.