Will Ferrell
and Kristen Wiig put on an improv master class, while Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler
star in an awesome fake movie.
If the jokes
at this year's Golden Globes had Adele "pissing" herself laughing,
it's safe to say there was some pretty funny stuff coming off the stage at the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual awards show Sunday evening.
That may
have been hard to believe, though, after co-host Amy Poehler made the sobering
revelation in the first five minutes of the show that when left untreated, the
HFPA can lead to cervical cancer.
Poehler and
her former "SNL" castmate Tiny Fey opened the show with some zingers
— but not too many, in fear that, like Ricky Gervais, running afoul of the HFPA
would force them to accept the punishment of hosting the show at least two more
times. They praised Kathryn Bigelow's authority on the subject of torture
("I would trust the lady who spent three years married to James
Cameron") and Anne Hathaway's role in "Les Misérables" ("I
haven't seen someone so totally alone and abandoned since you were onstage with
James Franco at the Oscars").
"Dog
President"
Of all the
movies and television shows that were honored with nominations, this production
got the biggest shaft in the awards department. Fey and Poehler dressed up as
fake actors Damian Francisco and Darcy St. Budge, the stars of "Dog
President," and were announced as nominees in the Best Actor and Actress
in a Miniseries categories. Francisco, the professional volleyball player
battling restless leg syndrome, later slipped onstage to gush over seeing
"Bill Rodham Clinton" backstage.
"You
Get Outta Here!"
Will Ferrell
plus Kristen Wiig equals hilarious, at least during their comedic duet onstage
Sunday as they introduced the nominees for Best Actress in a Motion Picture
Comedy. In an impressive round of improvisation, they intentionally bungled the
characters and plots of the nominees' films. "Meryl Streep? Hope Springs
and she's the sassy sheriff!" It was all fun and games, until the camera
flashed to Tommy Lee Jones, who looked like someone skinned his cat.
"A Much
Happier Ending Than the Movie"
A
more-behaved-than-usual Sacha Baron Cohen (with drink in hand) delivered an
intro to the Best Animated Feature Film category riddled with jokes about his
"Les Misérables" co-stars. "Russell Crowe had four months of
singing lessons. That was money well spent. And Helena Bonham Carter gave the
head of the Academy a personal massage, which I'm led to believe had a much
happier ending than the movie."
"They
Call Cookies Biscuits!"
According to
Aziz Ansari, the cast of "Downton Abbey" had some really awesome weed
backstage. And he can't feel his ears.
"I
Can't Be Worse Than You"
Who speaks
English better: Stallone or Schwarzenegger? The two aging action heroes made
fun of each other's famously slurred and accented speech while ironically
introducing the award for Best Foreign Language Film. In an additional twist of
irony, the winning film happened to be from Austria ("Amour"),
Schwarzenegger's native land.
"Look
How Drunk Glenn Close Is!"
Poehler and
Fey made a point to make fun of the fact that the show attendees should be half
in the bag at the midway point of the show, with all that free booze going
around. Golden Globe nominee Glenn Close ("Damages") played along,
delivering an award-winning performance for the cameras.
"I
Promised Myself I Would Thank Chad Lowe"
"Girls"
producer and actress Lena Dunham made a point of tacking this extra thanks on
to the end of her second acceptance speech of the evening. Why? "Because
Hilary Swank forgot," she said to reporters in a post-show press
conference, referring to the infamous dis Chad Lowe received from then-wife
Hilary Swank in forgetting to thank him during her 2000 Oscar acceptance speech
for "Boys Don't Cry."
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