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The2024 Golden Globeshad highlights, sure.
Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig brought pure goofs.
America Ferrera and Kevin Costner went for Weird energy but somehow it works?
At several points, the ceremony seemed to achieve awards-show status quo.
But right around theOppenheimer-is-long jibe, things took a sharp nosedive.
He described Barbies big boobies, which incited a wincing Greta Gerwig reaction shot.
Some I wrote, some other people wrote, he said about a joke that fell flat.
Yo, I got the gig ten days ago!
What do you want, a perfect monologue?
Everyone clapped, likely because it ended.
LOW: Perhaps the most egregious bit from Koys intro: We all dreamt of this moment.Did we?
Did the people in this room not dream of Emmys and Oscars and Grammys and Tonys?
The acronym is EGOT, not EGGGOT!
Golden Globes, you are overextending your station.
Im getting a headache.
LOW: Ryan Gosling not winning for his performance as Ken inBarbie.Folks, what are we even doing?
The pieces are coming together and they dont sound good.
(Nor do they make for an engagingTV show.)
HIGH: Ayo Edebiri thanks the assistants of Hollywood who answer all her emails.
She knows who really runs this industry!
HIGH: Kieran Culkin wins forSuccession.Ugh, nightmare, he said immediately after getting onstage.
Bang away, Cillian!
But also now his nice speech will forever have been given with lipstick nose.
Well get to work on an oral history immediately.
Watching that montage of eight (!!)
movies several of which did not earn nominations elsewhere really drove home the absurdity.
HIGH: At leastBarbiewon the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award.It would have been incredibly awkward if it hadnt.
On the other hand, was he rightfully praising her TikTok feed?
Asking if shell help promote his upcomingHorizon: An American Sagafilms?
Spilling hot goss about Taylor Sheridan?
But presenters got confused about where to stand from one award to the next.
And the winners kept getting lost on their way to the stage!
Sometimes the simplest stupid jokes are the best stupid jokes.
If Golden Globes speeches are in any way an audition for the Oscars, Gladstone nailed it.
WHOA: Was this whole awards show a hostage situation?Why was everyone so dead-eyed and subdued?
Why were the intros so shoddily written and woodenly delivered?
