{"id":130068,"date":"2026-01-12T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130068\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:17:10","slug":"golden-globes-host-nikki-glaser-and-stars-stay-focused-on-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130068\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Golden Globes’ host Nikki Glaser and stars stay focused on awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And it all comes around again. The least meaningful \u2014 most meaningless? \u2014 of the big Hollywood awards shows, which is to say, among the ones that are shown on broadcast television, the Golden Globes<\/a> (edition 86, if you can believe it) handed out a passel of trophies Sunday night from a ballroom in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. (The event was broadcast live by CBS and streamed by Paramount+).<\/p>\n

As the opening of \u201cawards season,\u201d it\u2019s supposed to be a bellwether of the Oscars race, blah blah blah. But if the world will little note nor long remember who wins these things, except when it\u2019s called to their attention by the words \u201cGolden Globe winner\u201d appearing in an article, it means something to the people who get them, and I certainly don\u2019t mean to rain on that parade. There are no nominees undeserving of praise. This is not the age of Pia Zadora.<\/p>\n

In their bubble of old-school glamour and gratitude, awards shows presume to display celebrities in the highly-styled, expensively-dressed wild, and, at least in the case of the acceptance speeches, they do, for a minute, do something like that. Sunday night, these moments tended to be sweet, not incendiary, and made one think, \u201cThose picture people really seem quite nice and genuine.\u201d There was, of course, the question of whether or to what degree the show, which is to say the people in it, would address the world outside the Hilton\u2019s walls. The last time the Globes rolled around, we were standing on the edge of a cliff; now we\u2019re free falling into a seemingly bottomless pit.<\/p>\n

To the extent they acknowledged a world out of joint, it was in generalized calls for love and cooperation. \u201cI said my rant on the red carpet,\u201d said Jean Smart, a forever winner for \u201cHacks.\u201d \u201cI think everybody in their hearts knows what the right thing is to do, so let\u2019s do the right thing.\u201d <\/p>\n

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1. Judd Apatow presenting the award for director at the Golden Globes. (Kevork Djansezian \/ CBS) 2. Jean Smart accepting the award for actress in a television series. (Kevork Djansezian \/ CBS) <\/p>\n

Judd Apatow, in a funny, self-mocking speech introducing the directing award, recalled his supposed 10-year boycott of the Globes, \u201cever since my film \u2018Trainwreck\u2019 lost best comedy to Ridley Scott\u2019s \u2018The Martian\u2019\u201d and noted, \u201cSince then we\u2019ve had COVID. I believe we\u2019re a dictatorship now.\u201d A few stars sported \u201cBe Good\u201d buttons, in reference to Ren\u00e9e Nicole Good<\/a>, shot three times in the face by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Despite the Globes\u2019 historical reputation as an off-the-chain party \u2014 and notwithstanding the over-loud nattering from commentators\/announcers Kevin Frazier and Marc Malkin, who filled winners\u2019 walks to the stage with gossipy chatter, and perhaps a more than usual amount of drug references that strained to make it seem like a wild night \u2014 it was a generally decorous affair. <\/p>\n

Nikki Glaser, who made a sort of history last year as the first woman to host the show solo, unhistorically hosted again. She was good last year and good this year, at least in the monologue<\/a>, which she approached like a roast, without being nasty. She opened with a burst of topicality \u2014 \u201cand the Golden Globe for best editing goes to the Justice Department; and the award for most editing goes to CBS News \u2026 America\u2019s newest place to see BS news\u201d \u2014 before moving on to the assembled stars. <\/p>\n

She asked George Clooney for help with her Nespresso. (He\u2019s a pitchman.) She compared Sean Penn\u2019s look to \u201ca sexy leather handbag,\u201d which seemed accurate, and called Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet \u201cthe first actor in history who had to put on muscles for a movie about pingpong.\u201d She made a couple of jokes about Kevin Hart\u2019s height. But, in the great tradition of Don Rickles and roast comics everywhere, she also punctured her barbs with, \u201cYou\u2019re the best\u201d and \u201cI love you.\u201d Her later appearances through the evening \u2014 including a filmed sketch to introduce the new podcast category<\/a>, with an appearance by Marc Maron, who just ended his, and \u201cKPong Demon Hunters,\u201d a musical number, in \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d sportswear, were flat by comparison. (Though her \u201cThis is going to go so viral\u201d in reference to the latter, was clearly meant to be ironic.)<\/p>\n

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Paul Thomas Anderson accepting the award for director at Golden Globes on Sunday.<\/p>\n

(Kevork Djansezian \/ CBS)<\/p>\n

A three hour-show is always going to be a three-hour tour, and nowhere more than the Golden Globes, which eschews production numbers, the in memoriam segment and pretty much just hands out awards (so many awards) the whole night. The scripted banter mostly made one think how much funnier the presenters probably were waiting to come onstage, and after they got back to their tables. But I liked the way that winners weren\u2019t played off (quiet music might creep in behind them, but it was never a tug of war.) I thought it was sweet the way Paul Thomas Anderson, onstage twice (for \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d for director and best comedy or musical motion picture) cradled his trophies as if they were babies (unconsciously, I am sure) and enjoyed the happy excitement of Rhea Seehorn<\/a>, winning a best actress award for \u201cPluribus.\u201d (She is not like that character.)<\/p>\n

It was nice that Seth Rogen, who made an episode of \u201cThe Studio\u201d in which his character is desperate to be recognized at the Golden Globes, found himself onstage twice, for performance by a male actor in a TV series and for the show itself (\u201cWe just pretended to do this, and now it\u2019s happening\u201d), and that he took time to honor his behind-the-camera crew, in their many professions, and attacked the caste system that kept them uninvited to the shindig. There was a big, long standing ovation for Julia Roberts, a movie star, coming out to present the award for musical or comedy motion picture, which was as true a Hollywood moment as you could have asked. \u201cI\u2019m going to be impossible for at least a week,\u201d she said, which was also very Hollywood. We love our royalty.<\/p>\n

And finally, kudos and roses to Glaser for her implicit tribute to the late Rob Reiner<\/a>, as she closed the show in a \u201cSpinal Tap\u201d ball cap, saying, \u201cThis one went to 11\u201d \u2014 which of course, it did, timewise \u2014 and \u201cI hope we found the fine line between clever and stupid.\u201d That is, of course, the burden of all awards shows, and a line that is always crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And it all comes around again. The least meaningful \u2014 most meaningless? \u2014 of the big Hollywood awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6758,29454,66911,21473,66910,66909,48,52,51,8844,47,50,49,66908,592,57122,1860,2850,4610,66912,218],"class_list":["post-130068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-award","tag-cbs","tag-golden-globe-winner","tag-golden-globes","tag-good-comedy","tag-host-nikki-glaser","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-time","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-outside-world","tag-people","tag-reference","tag-show","tag-star","tag-thing","tag-trophy-sunday-night","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}