Over the weekend, Beyoncé dropped her visual album titled "Lemonade" during an HBO event. The album was complete with an hour-long film that had tons of stunning visuals and lyrics that discussed infidelity, among other things. On Monday night, "Lemonade" was a hot topic of conversation that was tackled by various late night hosts, including James Corden, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.
Corden and Colbert both dedicated their monologues to spoofing the visual album, while Kimmel explained all the controversy about "Lemonade" with the use of emojis.
Corden went for a straight-up "Lemonade" parody and turned the opening of "The Late Late Show" into "Lemonjames: A Visual Monologue." In the video, the British host dressed up like Beyoncé from the "Lemonade" film, complete with cornrows, a fur jacket and later a sundress. The visual album from the pop star was broken up into different chapters like "Denial" and "Resurrection," and Corden took that concept for his monologue using chapters such as "Truth Bomb,""Hangry" and "Trump Joke."
"A new ice cream shop opened at a former Massachusetts funeral home," Corden deadpanned melodramatically. "They're calling it, 'Casket Robins.' Did that make you laugh, baby? That's one of my own. Does that make you laugh, like Jimmy with the good hair?"
For Colbert's "The Late Show" opening, the former "Colbert Report" host took a page right out of "Lemonade" and dressed in all yellow, as he walked down a hallway and had a huge grin on his face while he took a baseball bat and destroyed everything around him. Unlike Beyoncé's bat which said "Hot Sauce" in the visual album, Colbert's bat read "mayonnaise." Later in the show, Colbert brought up "Lemonade" again and dedicated five minutes of his monologue to "White-Mansplain" what was happening during the HBO special.
"This album is about so much more than Beyoncé's marriage: It makes powerful statements about women being disrespected, especially black women, and I know you've been waiting for a white man to explain it to you. The waiting is over," Colbert said.
"Now, if you are white, there may be some stuff in 'Lemonade' that you are not familiar with," the host continued. "For example, Beyoncé refers to the woman Jay Z slept with as 'Becky with the good hair.' Now, you might think Becky is the actual name of the woman, but it turns out that is just a slang term for a kind of valley girl type."
Kimmel took a similar approach to "Lemonade" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and tried to explain everything that happened in the film using emojis. Kimmel specifically focused on the No. 1 controversy surrounding the special, the rumors that Beyoncé's husband, Jay Z, cheated on her with a woman named Rachel Roy.
"Regular people do their oversharing on Facebook," Kimmel joked. "Beyoncé does it on HBO."
