--- title: Kristen Bell Has Teleprompter Fail at People's Choice Awards description: Kristen Bell suffered a teleprompter fail while presenting Tyler Perry with the Favorite Humanitarian award at the People's Choice Awards canonical: https://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-19T17:31:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:17.334Z og:title: Watch Kristen Bell Adorably Recover From a Teleprompter Fail og:description: It happens to even the best of us og:url: https://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Kristen Bell Adorably Recover From a Teleprompter Fail twitter:description: It happens to even the best of us twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Kristen Bell Flawlessly Recover From a Teleprompter Fail at the People's Choice Awards  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 19, 2017 5:31 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 19, 2017 5:31 PM UTC [Kristen Bell](http://time.com/4505716/kristen-bell-mullett-picture/)‘s been [a part of the entertainment industry for years](http://time.com/4419780/kristen-bell-frozen-game-of-thrones-anna-arya/), but just because she’s in the spotlight doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have her share of snafus. The actor experienced technical difficulties during her speech to introduce and honor [Tyler Perry](http://time.com/4264438/tyler-perry-the-passion/) with the Favorite Humanitarian award at the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday night. Once the teleprompter went out, Bell remained calm and was transparent with the audience about her struggle. “I feel like just a moment ago I really pulled the curtain and showed some vulnerability,” she said, according to [Entertainment Weekly](http://ew.com/awards/2017/01/18/peoples-choice-kristen-bell-teleprompter-tyler-perry/). “I was, in fact, using a teleprompter, and I’m embarrassed that I didn’t memorize it.” However, she didn’t linger on the topic, choosing instead highlight Perry and his good deeds. Perry, for his part, accepted his award and presented a $100,000 donation from Enterprise Car Rental to the Global Medical Relief Fund. “What I have found, and what is so important to me right now,” he said, “is that as I look at the state of the world and the state of our country and everything that is going on, it is so important that we know no matter how dark it gets, we all have to be light for each other.” Watch the full speech below. > [](https://twitter.com/peopleschoice/status/821925139453353984) > [](https://twitter.com/CBS/status/821922411557683200) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/"},"headline":"Watch Kristen Bell Flawlessly Recover From a Teleprompter Fail at the People's Choice Awards","datePublished":"2017-01-19T17:31:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:17.334Z","description":"It happens to even the best of us","url":"https://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrity","Kristen Bell","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4639276/kristen-bell-teleprompter-fail/","name":"Watch Kristen Bell Flawlessly Recover From a Teleprompter Fail at the People's Choice Awards"}}]}] ```