And so this turned into one ofthoseGolden Globe years.
You shook your head, and smiled just a little.
A Farrelly brother tried to defeat racism, andsuccessfully defeated the house orchestra.
Various people involved with the production ofBohemian Rhapsodythanked various peoplewhose names dont rhyme with lyin swinger.
The Golden Globes havent always had to mean something.
Ive often wondered when Im watching on television, Are the people as drunk as they seem?'
said first-time Golden Globe attendee and presenter Tyler Perry.
To everybody watching: yes, we are.
But theres a fine art to a great party.
One lucky audience member, Andy Samberg began, WILL HOST THE OSCARS!
he finished in unison with cohost Sandra Oh.
It was the bleakest joke they made all night.
Their other jokes were, well, bad.
Bradley Cooper: Hot!
Gina Rodriguez: From heaven!
Jeff Bridges: Our dad!
Well, that was fun, said Oh.
But the hosts seemed anxious about anything that would cut deeper than air quoted praise.
Samberg and Ohs dynamic never didnt look like a hosting shotgun marriage.
You missed the way past hosts could improvise in real-time.
The heart was tugged, no doubt.
Oh thanked her parents when she accepted a Best Actress prize for her performance inKilling Eve.
Alfonso Cuaron made it clear in his two tender acceptance speeches thatRomawas a film both personal and national-historic.
(Muchas gracias, Mexico.)
Regina King won forIf Beale Street Could Talkand created a powerful, self-described soapbox moment.
(Side eye to Mr. Farrelly:Somepeople dont have tobegthe orchestra to cut the play-off music.
)King promised that everything she producedmoving forward would employ 50 percent women.
Regina, were available!
exclaimed presenter Megan Mullally the kind of joke you know Fey wouldve made 15 out of.
You doubt anyone will ever do anotherGone with the Windsketch about funny clothes.
Burnett was accepting a prize named for her.
The Cecil B. DeMille honoree seemed to be improvising.
Nobody told me I had to follow Jeff Bridges, presenter Harrison Ford said.
Not because the winners were bad.
I know people who outright loatheGreen BookandBohemian Rhapsody.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association doesnt have to satisfy anyones definition of taste.
But you didnt feel like anyone was getting away with anything.
I think thats why it took it 14 years to get made.
Im not fooling myself.
Next year could be different.
It probably will be.
Next year arrived early.
The collective fire ofBlack Panther,BlackkKlansman, andCrazy Rich Asianswon zero awards.
The big movie winners were disputed period pieces peddling flavors of feel-goodery.
The prospect of a wildly diverse Golden Globes became, well, a stage full of theKominskydemographic.
Good in a different way, maybe one oughtnt be ageist, either!
but there was already a long stretch of history when Michael Douglas was a Hollywood genre unto himself.
