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Golden Globes 2017: The Highs and Lows
The 74th Golden Globe Awards had its fair share of awkward moments, as most awards shows do, but this time it was awkward right out of the gate. Jimmy Fallon got off to a bumpy start hosting the show when he came out to find the teleprompter not working. Jimmy announced the teleprompter fail to the audience and then said, “I can think of something. Cut to Justin Timberlake, please. Just wink at me or something, yeah. This is great.” Fortunately, for Jimmy, they got the prompter working right after that. Unfortunately for Emma Stone, there was no technical issue that caused her awkward moment when Damien Chazelle won best screenplay for La La Land. When Damien got up to go accept his award, Emma went in for a hug at the same time Damien was hugging his girlfriend. Emma immediately pulled back from the three-way hug, but it was too late to undo the awkwardness. Although, possibly the most awkward moment of the night went to Sofia Vergara, who introduced Miss Golden Globe, Sylvester Stallone’s young daughters, Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet. The Modern Family star came out and said, “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has an anal tradition -- I didn't mean "anal," I mean they have an anus tradition.” Not only was the joke that they wrote for her a little overplayed (we get it, her English isn’t the best), but making anal jokes while introducing three young girls just made it cringe-worthy. 
Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars hit the stage at the 74th Golden Globe Awards Sunday night to present their peers with awards. The job of a presenter is mostly to open envelopes and read names, but sometimes they also tickle your funny bone. Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant joked about an orgy, Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn cracked everyone up with Goldie’s inability to read the prompter without her glasses, and Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell made everyone laugh with really depressing stories. While Steve and Kristen were presenting Best Animated Feature Film, Steve was remembering the first time he saw an animated film. The Office star said his dad took him to see Fantasia when he was six and that it was a life-changing experience. Steve then followed that up with, “As we were leaving the theater, there standing in the lobby was my mom. And that was the moment she told my dad that she wanted a divorce.” Not to be out-done, Kristen shared her life-changing story about the first time she saw Bambi. The former SNL star said, “It was the same day we had to put our dogs down,” and if that wasn’t bad enough, she added, “And also that was the last day I saw my grandpa. He disappeared. And I didn't speak for two years.” The Black-ish star, who is the first black actress to win Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy since Fame‘s Debbie Allen took home the Globe in 1983, came prepared with one of the night’s most effortlessly poignant and celebratory speeches: “This is for all of the women, women of color, and colorful people whose stories, ideas, thoughts are not always considered worthy and valid and important. But I want you to know that I see you, we see you,” she said. “It is an honor to be on this show, Black-ish, to continue expanding the way we are seen and known and to show the magic and the beauty and the sameness of a story and stories that are outside of where the industry usually looks.” She also thanked all those who got her to this point in her career: “It’s nice at 44,” she said. “I like it here.” — MB
