...as Donald Trump threatens to sue host Trevor Noah

Nate Bargatze won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album last night.

The accolade – for the recording of his Netflix special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze – is the first time he’s won the accolade, although he was nominated in 2022 for The Greatest Average American.

Bargatze triumphed over Bill Burr for Drop Dead Years, Sarah Silverman for PostMortem, Ali Wong for Single Lady, and Jamie Foxx for What Had Happened Was… which had all been nominated too.

The category was announced in a non-televised event before the main ceremony from Los Angeles last night.

Bargatze was the highest-grossing stand-up comic in 2024, with over a million tickets sold across his shows. He hoste last year’s Emmy awards while his first book, Big Dumb Eyes: Stories From A Simpler Mind was on the New York Times Bestsellers list for 11 weeks. 

He is also host of a new US game show which he co-conceived – also called The Greatest Average American – in which contestants vie to win the average American salary of $67,920.

In other Grammy categories, Trevor Noah lost out to the Dalai Lama as Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness The Dalai Lama won the audiobook category ahead of the comedian's children's book Into the Uncut Grass.

Noah hosted the ceremony, and included the joke: 'Song of the Year — that is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.'

The President laughed it off.

Of course he didn't. He posted on Truth Social: 'It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty... Get ready Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you!'

Bad Bunny  won three awards, including becoming the first Latin artist to win album of the year at a ceremony where dozens of stars criticised the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Published: 2 Feb 2026