Druski is getting high praise from Chris Rock after hosting the 2026 BET Awards for the first time.
After hosting the ceremony on Sunday (June 28), the 31-year-old comedian shared a screenshot of a text message from Rock, 61, to his Instagram Story.
"Hey incredible. Best host ever. You officially retired me. Hats off your the best," read the message, with Druski adding a mindblown emoji above the message.
Rock previously hosted the show in 2014.
Druski kept the laughs coming throughout the night at the 2026 BET Awards by incorporating his offbeat humor into the ceremony.
He opened the show by bringing back his wildly popular megachurch pastor character from a skit shared earlier this year and kicking off the show with an over-the-top church service. He even made a joke about Stevie Wonder's reported fortune, displaying the amount in what he claimed was Braille for the audience.
The comedian also spoofed Jay-Z's recent Roots Picnic freestyle performances with intentionally absurd rhymes and exaggerated punchlines inspired by Hov.
Later in the show, he brought his Coulda Been Records auditions to the BET Awards stage, welcoming a string of eccentric contestants that included a self-described “gangster” with a BBL, a white contestant who was turned away for not being Black, and singer Durand Bernarr.
Druski also jokingly called out Ray J, who had caused a stir at the red carpet earlier that day, by referencing his recent hospitalization for pneumonia and heart pain.
“Why you lie to us, man? I thought you was gon’ be dead,” Druski told the singer, who performed earlier this year with a patch on his chest and apparent blood running from his eye. “I’mma get away from you, man. Ray J, you know that’s wrong, man. You lied to all of us! I was praying for you and everything. We was rooting for you!”
