Cedric the Entertainer poked fun at Nicki Minaj's vaccine comments while hosting the Emmy's Sunday night, assuring viewers that he didn't have the same reaction to the shot that the rapper claims her cousin's friend did.
Minaj, 38, told her fans to think twice about getting the vaccine last week, alleging that the shot cost her cousin's friend his fiancée.
'My cousin in Trinidad won't get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding,' she tweeted on Monday to her 22.6 million followers.
Cedric, 57, said in his monologue that he didn't suffer the same fate.
'We're all vaxxed. You had to get vaxxed to come here,' Cedric said.
'I got vaxxed. I did not have a reaction like Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend, okay? I got Pfizer, you know what I'm saying? Because I'm bougie. That's the Neiman Marcus of vaccines. Moderna, that's Macy's. Johnson & Johnson, that's TJ Maxx.'
Cedric, 57, took aim at Minaj's comments while hosting the 73rd Primetime Emmys on Sunday
The rapper caused quite a stir last week when she claimed that her cousin's friend's testicles became 'swollen' after he got the COVID-19 vaccine
Minaj's comments, which came after she revealed that she didn't attend the Met Gala due to their vaccination policy, drew widespread condemnation from health authorities in the United States and in Trinidad and Tobago, where Minaj and her cousin, and presumably his friend, are from.
The island's health minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, said the claim was false on Wednesday.
'One of the reasons why we could not respond yesterday in real-time to Miss Minaj is that we had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false. Unfortunately, we wasted so much
