Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser opened the evening by mocking the celebrities over their previous 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 would like you to know that. How may I, actually? You are all so well-known, so gifted, so highly effective. I imply, you possibly can actually do something… I imply, besides inform the nation who to vote for,” Glaser stated.
As the gang laughed, she adopted up by saying, “But it surely’s okay! You’ll get them subsequent time! If there’s one. I’m scared.”
Comic Nikki Glaser took a shot at celebrities who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. (Wealthy Polk)
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A number of 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 help of Vice President Kamala Harris forward of the presidential election.
Regardless of their endorsements, Harris misplaced to President-elect Donald Trump, shedding all seven swing states in addition to the favored vote. Harris additionally did not flip any county that voted for Trump in 2020.
After she was introduced because the host in August, Glaser wrote an announcement expressing her pleasure to mock the superstar viewers, citing controversial former host Ricky Gervais as an inspiration.
Harris did not win the presidential election regardless of receiving endorsements from main Hollywood celebrities. (Getty Photos)
“I’m completely thrilled to be internet hosting the Golden Globes,” Glaser wrote in an announcement reported by The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s one in every of my favourite nights of tv and now I get a entrance row seat (truly, I believe I’ve to host from the stage). The Golden Globes just isn’t solely an enormous evening for TV and movie but additionally for comedy. It’s one of many few occasions that present enterprise not solely permits however encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (no less than I hope so). (God I hope so.) It’s an thrilling, but difficult gig as a result of it’s dwell, unpredictable and in entrance of Hollywood’s largest stars (who additionally is likely to be getting wasted whereas seated subsequent to their current exes).”
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Nikki Glaser walked the purple carpet earlier than internet hosting the 82nd Golden Globes on the Beverly Hilton Resort. (Picture by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
“A few of my favourite jokes of all time have come from previous Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina [Fey], Amy [Poehler] or Ricky [Gervais] have stated 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). That is really a dream job. Plus, I not must really feel responsible for each TV present and film I’ve binged over the previous yr. It was all value it. (Beneath Deck: Crusing Yacht Season 4 will probably be nominated, proper?)”
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