While the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards started out with a noticeably female-centric introduction and monologue from the award show’s very first host Kristen Bell — who dubbed herself the “First Lady” of the SAGs — the show quickly got awkward.

It was brief, but noticeable that during the presentation of this year’s first award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy that nominee Aziz Ansari (“Master of None”) was not present. Ansari, among the latest men in Hollywood to be implicated for sexual misconduct, had a headshot photo in his place when all nominees — Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”), Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”) and William H. Macy (“Shameless” and Marc Maron (“Glow”) — were shown on the telecast. There was no applause for Ansari when his name was read as a nominee.

In the end, the show avoided true awkwardness as the award went to Macy, who did mention the comedian in his acceptance speech but simply to pay homage to his fellow nominees.

Ansari recently won a Golden Globe for best actor in a television series musical or comedy earlier this month and was celebrated as the first Asian American to win the honor before a story went public last week about a woman who described a sexual encounter with Ansari as “the worst night of my life” on Babe.net.

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Mariecar Mendoza is The San Francisco Chronicle’s arts content editor. Email: mmendoza@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SFMarMendozaInstagram: @sfchronicle_scene