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While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony event, known as the Oscars of Science, Seth Rogen pointed out the irony of tech titans' support for the Trump administration's defunding of science. The potentially embarrassing comments were edited out.
While presenting an award at the event known as the Oscars of Science, 'The Studio' star pointed out the irony of tech titans' support for the Trump administration's defunding of science. The potentially embarrassing comments were edited out.
The organizers of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony, the star-studded evening known informally as the Oscars of Science, should have thought twice before booking the famously unfiltered Seth Rogen to present an award — something they seemed to acknowledge when they cut out parts of his remarks from the official video that streamed on YouTube a week later. The Studio creator and star has a history of going rogue at awards shows ( calling out the 2021 Emmys’ COVID safety protocols, for example, or getting bleeped for an off-color Ryan Gosling joke at this year’s Golden Globes), and he did it again from the stage of at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica on April 5, when he co-presented the Special Breakthrough Prize in Physics alongside Edward Norton at the ceremony’s 13th edition. After being introduced by host James Corden, Norton began by praising some of the tech titans in the audience — which included Breakthrough Prize co-founders Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sergey Brin — for underwriting the awards.
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