Jerrod Carmichael shocked the Golden Globes audience by mocking Tom Cruise and Scientology with a joke about Shelly Miscavige

• Golden Globes host Jarrod Carmichael took aim at Scientology on Tuesday night.

• Carmichael suggested that Tom Cruise's returned Golden Globes could be traded for Shelly Miscavige.

• Miscavige, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavage, has rarely been seen in public since 2007.

Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael pulled no punches on Tuesday night.

While his opening monologue took aim squarely at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the voting body behind the awards show, it was a joke he lobbed midway through the ceremony that elicited gasps and moans from the audience.

"Backstage, I found the awards that Tom Cruise returned," said Carmichael, who emerged onstage with three Golden Globes statues. "I have a pitch. I think maybe we take these three things and exchange them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige."

Cruise returned the Golden Globes in 2021 to protest the HFPA's lack of diversity.

Miscavige, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, has rarely been seen in public since August 2007 and has been the subject of much speculation, with former Scientologist Leah Remini tweeting her own theories in November 2022 about the "first lady of Scientology's" whereabouts. Remini also claimed in her string of tweets to have asked Cruise, a longtime Scientologist, about Miscavige but was rebuffed.

Remini tweeted shortly after Carmichael's joke:

Carmichael made the Scientology remarks while introducing Glen Powell and Jay Ellis, who appear in Cruise's latest film, "Top Gun: Maverick."

While discussing onstage how impactful "Top Gun" was this year, Powell delivered a joke of his own: "It's a good thing Tom's not here."

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