Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser opened the evening by mocking the celebrities over their past presidential endorsements that appeared to don’t have any impact.
When the awards present started on Sunday evening, Glaser began by complimenting the room of celebrities, solely to rapidly shift to roasting them.
“I’m not right here to roast you tonight. I need you to know that. How might I, actually? You’re all so well-known, so proficient, so highly effective. I imply, you could possibly actually do something… I imply, besides inform the nation who to vote for,” Glaser mentioned.
As the group laughed, she adopted up by saying, “But it’s okay! You’ll get them subsequent time! If there may be one. I’m scared.”
Comedian Nikki Glaser took a shot at celebrities who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. (Rich Polk)
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Several main Hollywood celebrities, together with Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Alec Baldwin, Leonardo DiCaprio and Golden Globe nominee Harrison Ford, got here out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris forward of the presidential election.
Despite their endorsements, Harris misplaced to President-elect Donald Trump, dropping all seven swing states in addition to the favored vote. Harris additionally didn’t flip any county that voted for Trump in 2020.
After she was introduced because the host in August, Glaser wrote a press release expressing her pleasure to mock the celebrity audience, citing controversial former host Ricky Gervais as an inspiration.
Harris didn’t win the presidential election regardless of receiving endorsements from main Hollywood celebrities. (Getty Images)
“I’m completely thrilled to be internet hosting the Golden Globes,” Glaser wrote in a press release reported by The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s certainly one of my favourite nights of tv and now I get a entrance row seat (really, I feel I’ve to host from the stage). The Golden Globes will not be solely an enormous evening for TV and movie but in addition for comedy. It’s one of many few occasions that present enterprise not solely permits however encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (a minimum of I hope so). (God I hope so.) It’s an thrilling, but difficult gig as a result of it’s reside, unpredictable and in entrance of Hollywood’s greatest stars (who additionally is likely to be getting wasted whereas seated subsequent to their latest exes).”
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Nikki Glaser walked the crimson carpet earlier than internet hosting the 82nd Golden Globes on the Beverly Hilton Hotel. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
“Some of my favourite jokes of all time have come from previous Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina [Fey], Amy [Poehler] or Ricky [Gervais] have mentioned precisely what all of us didn’t know we desperately wanted to listen to,” she added. “I simply hope to proceed in that time-honored custom (that may additionally get me canceled). This is actually a dream job. Plus, I not need to really feel responsible for each TV present and film I’ve binged over the previous yr. It was all value it. (Below Deck: Sailing Yacht Season Four will probably be nominated, proper?)”
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