Kristen Bell hosted the 2025 SAG Awards, which balanced jokes with the heaviness of the world

CNN — The running joke on Sunday night was that the SAG Award, known as “the actor,” was incredibly heavy, even while there were some pretty light moments during the show. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images After mentioning how everyone in the room started out with a shared dream “to be a working artist, and it’s a beautiful thing,” Bell called Los Angeles the “backdrop” to that dream, “and it too is a beautiful thing.” “The city and the people in it have been through the ringer,” she added, in reference to last month’s devastating wildfires in the area, before gesturing to tables in the room where various local first responders sat. Farrell, who won for his role in “The Penguin,” admitted that he was “Guilty as charged” and added that his “The Banshee of Inisherin” costar Brendan Gleeson “f***ing gave it to me, so I was just spreading the love.” Impromptu ‘Law & Order’ drinking challenge Keke Palmer and Colman Domingo speak onstage during the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters It’s a joke in Hollywood that you aren’t really even an actor if you haven’t appeared on the “Law & Order” franchise, and the award show poked some fun at that. Palmer and Domingo took to the stage after to present the award for female actor in a supporting role in a motion picture, but first asked the audience in the Shrine Auditorium to “take a drink if they’ve ever been in an episode of ‘Law & Order.” Domingo joked that the “whole room would be lit,” given the large number that applied to.