13 moments that proved the Golden Globes are the weirdest award show

The Golden Globes have a reputation as the most fun award show. If not fun, at least weird. On Sunday night, these 13 moments reminded us why.

Why are the Golden Globes the most fun award show? We’ll be blunt: They serve alcohol. The Hollywood Foreign Press is also somewhat known for wacky choices, zigging where the Emmys or Oscars zag with their voting choices. But really, it’s the booze. If you were provided with bottomless adult beverages (apparently, 7,500 glasses of champagne) whilst be asked to sit through a three hour award show in formal wear and then told to get on stage/give a speech/control your emotions when the camera cuts to you, you too might make a face, say something silly or trip up the stairs.

On Sunday night at the 76th Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hills Hilton, Oscar favorites practiced speeches, fashion statements were made and future gifs christened. It was the wildest or most viral of Globes nights, but these 13 fun, nice and weird moments were classic Golden Globes.

1. Bold red carpet moves

Maybe it’s recently made New Year’s resolutions, the L.A. warmth in January or just the spirit of the awards, but the Golden Globes red carpet tends to be the site of bigger, bolder and more colorful fashion choices. There were many on Sunday, including but not limited to Lady Gaga’s win-ready train, Billy Porter’s twirl-perfect cape and Timothee Chalamet’s sparkle harness.

See more of the best-dressed of the 2019 red carpet, courtesy of Culturess.

2. Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg’s earnest opening

In retrospect, the opening monologue was a pretty good indication of what to expect from the Golden Globes. Oh and Samberg’s jokes, including and perhaps especially the compliment-burns, were earnest, wholesome and sometimes just dumb (hello, “worst race of people is the Hollywood Marathon” bit), but if you like Samberg and Oh’s delivery and the off-beat banter that was already pretty-well previewed in their promos, it was cute and nice and even funny. Most importantly, it seemed right for the duo.

2b. Emma Stone’s Aloha apology

Round about the five-minute mark of the opening monologue, when Sandra begins her bit about Crazy Rich Asians with “the first studio film with an Asian-American lead since Ghost in the Shell and Aloha,” a voice that sounds awfully like Emma Stone shouts out “I’m sorry.”

You heard it, the people you follow on Twitter heard it, and it was confirmed by the L.A. Times that it was in fact Stone, who said she didn’t plan it but she did say it.

3. Carol Burnett’s Lifetime Achievement Award

There is actually nothing weird about this. It’s pure good.

4. Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler’s surprise proposal bit

Much like the opening monologue, it’s hard to say that Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler’s proposal joke, in which Rudolph took the opportunity of being on stage with Poehler to declare her love and propose, was actively funny. But, they took a shot at something incredibly grating and dumb, and did so with the attitude of two people, possibly drunk, who do not care if you think what they are doing is funny because they think its funny.

5. The flu shot bit

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6. Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy’s witty banter

It is always a good idea to pair Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy for award show intros especially when they walk out and do something as delightfully strange as this exchange:

Macy: “Witty banter.”
Huffman: “Witty banter.”
Macy: “Witty banter.”
Huffman: “Here are the nominees.”

It was perfect.

7. Sandra Oh’s acceptance speech

Again, there is nothing weird about this. Pure and good. That is all.

8. “Are the people as drunk as they seem? Yes, we are.” – Tyler Perry

9. Christian Bale thanks Satan for inspiration

Also: Offered to play Mitch McConnell next.

(In related news: There are apparently still people just discovering Bale is Welsh. The more you know.)

10. Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges

Bridges gave an acceptance speech that included an elaborate and goofy and somehow moving(?) tag metaphor.

11. Sandra Oh’s dirty This Is Us joke

By way of introduction for Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley, Oh took the classic This Is Us tissue jokes to an extremely Golden Globes place: “Break out the tissues… because you’re going to want to masturbate to all of them.”

12. Olivia Colman’s acceptance speech

The first true “she’s either ecstatic, inebriated or both” speech. A gem, complete with beeped out expletives.

“I would like to tell you how much this film means to be but I can’t think of it because I’m so excited.” She is a queen.

13. Glenn Close’s acceptance speech

The first true “give her another ovation, and another award” speech.

Bonus points for winning over salty A Star is Born fans in record time.

Honorary Mention: The winners

Speaking of salty A Star is Born fans, the Hollywood Foreign Press closed out the evening by very enthusiastically recognizing Bohemian Rhapsody, awarding the film Best Actor (Rami Malek) and Best Motion Picture – Drama honors, which felt like a more personal attack on Bradley Cooper because neither went to A Star is Born, which also did not win Best Actress or Best Director.

More broadly, it drove home the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press remains as unique as ever in their choices. The Kominsky Method, a TV show few people have even heard of, won two awards; Glenn Close’s phenomenal speech doesn’t really make up forThe Wife having almost no buzz; Patricia Arquette and Ben Whishaw are endlessly deserving but still won for shows, Escape from Dannemora and A Very English Scandal, that weren’t exactly widely watched. Even the Globes’ love of Green Book is spicily contrarian as public opinion turns against it as the next Crash or The Help.

True to form, the Globes are good for one (or five) WTF winners.

In any case, the Oscars are two months away. Plenty of time to sober up and make more logical decisions. Or not. Who is to say, it’s awards seasons. Surprises and poor decisions are part of the fun.

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