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29th Jan 2018

WATCH: Hillary Clinton performed a reading of the anti-Trump book Fire And Fury at the Grammys

Rory Cashin

The audience went absolutely wild for it.

Late on Sunday night, the Grammys took place, and while everyone will definitely make some talking points about Bruno Mars cleaning up, Jay-Z being entirely overlooked, and Beyonce’s dress channelling Trinity from The Matrix, we imagine this sketch will be the one to result in the biggest political fallout.

Awards show host James Carden put today a little comedy segment featuring some of his famous friends “auditioning” to be the voice of the audio-book version of Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House.

John Legend, Cher, Snoop Dogg and DJ Khaled all take a pop at it, before so-hot-right-now Cardi B puts her own spin on it, until she snaps at the logistics of what she is actually doing: “Why am I even reading this shit. I can’t believe this. I can’t believe that he really… this is how he lives his life?”

We then cut to someone reading the book, their face obscured by the book, before it is quickly revealed to be Clinton herself, and the in the background, we can hear the Grammys audience going absolutely wild.

Clip via The Late Late Show with James Corden

Of course, not everyone was a fan, including U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, who took to Twitter to voice her opinion:

It took all over 0.000001 seconds before Twitter reminded that pretty much all of the great musicians through the years have been political, and on a night where Kendrick Lamar, U2 and Kesha were among the performers, politics in every form was front and centre.

Or, to put it another way: