Nikki Glaser Hosted Present Avoids Controversy

Coming off the teetotaling ceremony of final 12 months, the Golden Globes tonight continued its comeback by popping a cork for the present and pouring out some old school primetime bubbly.

With host Nikki Glaser offering the watered-down drinks and spicules, the aspirational tone for the 82^nd annual Golden Globes was set early on. There have been numerous TV wins that replicated the Emmys, some film wins that look Oscar certain, however little controversy in a present that used to get down within the filth and experience it. Like final 12 months, Sunday’s Globes was related to the boozy, shambolic and sometimes splendidly mean-spirited present of yesteryear in identify solely.

Factor is, awards exhibits, like all the things else, must evolve or die in immediately’s media atmosphere, and going upmarket could also be the most effective wager to rework 5 Buck Chuck into Dom Pérignon.

Certain there was an ungainly casting sofa joke on the prime of the present adopted by a fairly tentative swipe at Hollywood’s backing of Kamala Harris towards Donald Trump on this 12 months’s election. But, after admitting she “scared” by the prospect of Trump 2.0 and hoping for extra Globes gigs, Glaser headed into the monologue protected territory of calling out celebs within the room with ribbing and sexual innuendo plus some Ozempic quips.

Tonight, nobody’s emotions acquired damage.

If auditioning for future Globes internet hosting stints is Glaser’s actual aim, she checked off greater than sufficient bins on an evening of primarily predictable wins for a return invite, Certain, Nate Bargatze provided himself instead whereas presenting the Ali Wong gained Finest Efficiency In Stand-Up Comedy On Tv class, however clearly Glaser rightly sussed up the Globes ripe for her plucking.

Overshadowed momentarily proper after her opening from Zoe Saldaña’s bleeped out “Holy F*ck” along with her Emilia Pérez win, Glaser additionally revealed only a glimpse of how she might actually tear off some actual movie star pores and skin with quips in regards to the much-accused Sean “Diddy” Combs and the potential complicity of many within the ballroom together with his alleged crimes and so-called freak offs.

Reality is, it was a blink and also you missed it second, however don’t suppose Ricky Gervais is the one Globes host who can draw blood, if what I imply?

That stated, Glaser’s Depraved and Conclave mash-up with its Elton John and Cypress Hill reference didn’t suck as a lot because the host joked onstage. That stated, it wasn’t the classiest stance if you wish to enchantment to the Catholics within the heartland down the road.

With final 12 months’s automotive crash monologue by host Jo Koy apart, the 2025 Globes was loads just like the 2024 Globes.

There have been a lot of angled digital camera star team-up presenters’ scripted banter, quick turnovers, a number of teleprompters glitches and ticklish cuts to execs and stars within the viewers (we noticed that hat Jeremy Sturdy and that prime 5 Ted Sarandos). Returning producing group Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner this 12 months threw in some oldschool Nineteen Nineties MTV on-screen factoids for social media (Anya Taylor-Pleasure has three citizenships?) and pin drops of nominees within the crowd when their names have been learn out.

As that extended Canadian skit from Nice North born Catherine O’Hara and Seth Rogen made apparent, it was all a bit of too busy – which may very well be stated of the entire CBS broadcast shindig. Which, in a transfer to attempt to trim issues down, for the needlessly over three-hour ceremony, is probably going why the honorary awards to Viola Davis and Ted Danson got out final week with simply clips making it to Sunday’s present

But, within the work in progress that’s nonetheless the reinvention of the as soon as scandal plagued and on life help Globes, higher for the dick clark productions (which is owned by Deadline’s father or mother firm PMC) run present to throw as a lot as it may towards the wall to see what sticks, actually and figuratively.

There have been nicely deserved wins Sunday by Emmy victors Hacks, The Bear, Child Reindeer, True Detective: Night time Nation and the dominating Shōgun, and massive boosts for Oscar hopefuls Emilia Pérez, Adrien Brody and The Brutalist, Depraved, I’m Nonetheless Right here’s Fernanda Torres, Conclave, and The Substance’s Demi Moore (who gave the speech of the evening).

Nonetheless, the absence of Deadpool and Wolverine stars and Globes nominees Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman could have dimmed issues for the celeb slobbering Globes. Perhaps. C’mon, everyone knows it was Blake Energetic who would have been the actual draw.

The highest speak of Hollywood and plenty of different locations, the drama of the It Ends With Us actress’ very public authorized conflict with co-star/director Justin Baldoni over allegations of sexual harassment and high-octane on-line smear marketing campaign was not talked about this night. A Globes roasting ready to occur by another identify in nearly another 12 months, the apparently seedy circumstances of Energetic vs Baldoni, with its cameos by partner Reynolds, was deemed to cross the road this 12 months with Glaser retaining her promise to not convey the tailored matter up.

Which implies, on this more and more circumspect and kowtowing business, it would most likely all be mercilessly mocked by a masked Reynolds in a number of years when all of the appeals have dried up like Baldoni’s profession. Let’s be trustworthy, even when all of us agree the IEWU soiled laundry would have been a distraction, it’s not glamtastic Glaser refusing to poke the Blake bear that’s actually the problems right here.

Simply over two weeks earlier than a retribution loaded Donald Trump roars again into the White Home, Hollywood is extra bone-tired than chastened with something contentious.

With a peaceful of types earlier than the January 20 storm, gentle cheek pinching like your Nice Aunt used to do at household weddings is far more in trend within the early days of 2025 than the controversy courting that has been the cultural couture of the city the previous decade. Shivering already from the coolness blowing over studio, streamers and tech boys HQs, everybody from the C-suites to the Disaster PR dens to on-set craft companies need to maintain their heads down.

Hell, even Sebastian Stan, who performed a youthful Trump within the lawsuit threatened The Apprentice, didn’t instantly talked about the previous Movie star Apprentice host and two-time POTUS in his speech for his A Totally different Man win tonight.

For the Globes that burden means, even with a Praetorian Guard of regulation enforcement outdoors the Beverly Hilton immediately defending the attendees and the ceremony, it’s nonetheless exhausting to be probably the most topical and freewheelin’ of awards exhibits in case you gained’t throw a corkscrew punch on the elephants within the room.

As Nikki Glaser herself stated tonight midway via the 2025 Golden Globes: “You lose some, you win some.” Or possibly as Penguin star and Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell declared: “Guess it’s prosthetics from right here on out.”

Elevate a glass to each sentiments, the Golden Globes we used to like to hate is gone.