Former MSNBC host Joy Reid joked Thursday about her “breakup” from the network earlier this week. Speaking at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles, the broadcaster opened the event with a lighthearted acknowledgment of her show’s cancellation.

Axed former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid is quickly becoming the Kamala Harris of nightly news cable. Like the former vice-president, Reid is out of a job – sent packing by the notoriously liberal television channel as it contends with plummeting ratings and a reform-minded new boss.

MSNBC's new president Rebecca Kulter announced that Reid would be exiting the network on Feb. 24Joy Reid has a sense of humor about her recent exit from MSNBC.While speaking at Essence's Black Women in Hollywood event on Feb.