The 80th Golden Globe Awards aired Tuesday night. Now let’s 86 ’em. The awards show made an unbearably awkward comeback after not airing on NBC last year due to a diversity scandal — and don’t you forget it!
The uptight return was a brutally uncomfortable three hours in which the celeb crowd was as sober as a third-grade hall monitor and petrified of having even a second of fun.
God forbid they put on an enjoyable ceremony for a rapidly dwindling audience. Why on Earth would we at home want to put up with such drudgery again? Fun is the sole reason the Globes exist. The Oscars class things up (well, except Will Smith) and the Globes crass things up. Past hosts Ricky Gervais and Amy Poehler and Tina Fey used to play with fire as they eviscerated Hollywood with their vicious barbs.
