Being the first host in 11 years, Sam Pang had big shoes to fill at the 63rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards. And fill them he did!
Viewers couldn’t get enough of the Australian comedian and headed over to Twitter to express their delight over his hilarious hosting job.
The social media platform was lit up with comments about Pang, with many fans requesting that the Have You Been Paying Attention? panellist be made a permanent fixture at the awards show.
What did Sam Pang say at the TV Week Logie Awards?
Pang managed to roast a huge amount of television royalty in his opening monologue alone.
The comedian took aim at former Logie winner Kerri-Anne Kennerly with his comment about I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. He said it is “a wonderful show where we find out which Australian celebrities haven’t been adding to their super. Hi Kerri-Anne!”
Pang went on to thank Gold Logie nominee Hamish Blake for stepping aside so that he could score the hosting role.
“Some of us have a mortgage,” he told Blake. “By the way, a mortgage is when the bank loans … Ah, don’t worry about it.”
But perhaps his most scathing comment was in regard to Lisa Wilkinson’s acceptance speech at last year’s Logie Awards. Wilkinson interviewed Brittany Higgins on The Project when she went public with rape allegations against Bruce Lehrmann. The journalist received a Silver Logie for the segment.
In Wilkinson’s acceptance speech, she insinuated that the allegations were true, despite the case not being proven in court, which caused the case to be delayed. It was later aborted due to juror misconduct.
Pang told audience members to not “mix beer and wine”, and to “make sure that you don’t mix your acceptance speech with an active court case”.
The best Twitter reactions to Sam Pang’s hosting gig
Twitter is flooded with users commending Pang for a job well done at the Logie Awards. Check out some of the best tweets below:
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