Selena Gomez made a joke about “childless cat-loving women” at the Emmy Awards, referencing some controversial comments made by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio).
The 32-year-old performer has appeared in 76 productions.NumberShe attended the annual Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, where she presented the first category of the night, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, alongside her “Only Murder in the Building” co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin.
“Let me just say it's been an honor for me to work with someone who can fall down and not get up,” Short joked with Martin as the three introduced the department.
“It's an honor for me to work with someone like a former women's tennis champion,” Martin told Short.
“It's an honor to work with two men who are the furthest thing from childless Catwoman,” Gomez told her co-stars, drawing laughter from the audience.
“This country is effectively being run, through the Democrats and the corporate oligarchy, by childfree catwomen who are miserable about their own lives and the choices they've made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” Vance said in a clip that resurfaced in 2021 from Tucker Carlson's now-defunct Fox News show.
Vance, who was former President Trump's running mate, said last month that he intended the remarks to be “sarcastic” but that they had been “deliberately misinterpreted” by “a number of Democrats.”
Gomez's joke followed a largely non-political monologue by the show's hosts, former “Schitt's Creek” stars Dan Levy and Eugene Levy.
In his opening speech at the show, Eugene Levy mentioned politics just once, urging the winners to keep their acceptance speeches brief.
“If you have something meaningful or emotional to say, or definitely nothing political, just keep it short,” Levy said.
Gomez wasn't the only Emmy presenter to address Vance's comments.
Candice Bergen, who starred in the 1990s sitcom “Murphy Brown,” performed a “famous moment” from the show onstage, recalling her character being “attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy becomes pregnant and decides to raise the baby as a single mother.”
“Oh, how far we've come,” Bergen said sarcastically.
“Today, a Republican vice presidential nominee would never attack a woman for having a child, so, as the saying goes, my work is done here,” Bergen, 78, said.
Then she added, “Meow.”
Updated at 8:49 p.m.
