Meanwhile last year, their 88-year-old former president Philip Berk, was expelled after penning a widely circulated email which described the Black Lives Matter movement as a “racist hate group”.
The HFPA has responded to the controversy by hiring diversity advisers and pledging to increase ethnic minority representation.
However, Ricky appeared to have been missing the controversial humour of the event in its earlier years, by reflecting on the opening monologue he gave to kick off the 2020 show.
In it, he took aim at celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, whom he ridiculed for his penchant for much younger women, plus paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail, and singer R. Kelly, who is potentially facing the prospect of dying behind bars after being convicted of abusing underage girls.
