Hilarious Nikki Glaser saves 2025 Golden Globes from being a disastrous, fiery wreck again

I have just woken up from a strange and confusing dream.I dreamt that the 2025 Golden Globe Awards were actually tolerable.But it wasn’t a dream.

It was a broadcast! And Nicole Kidman, and Timothée Chalamet, and Angelina Jolie and “Wicked” were there, Auntie Em! Look, it’s still an award show — a genre that in just 10 short years has gone from a much-watched special event that people legitimately cared about to a rung below a rerun of “Chicago Med.” The Globes remain far too long-winded.The saggy middle, when TV trophies were unenthusiastically dished out like steamed broccoli, felt longer than “The Brutalist” — the 3 ½ hour winner of best motion picture – drama.Having presenters deliver their intros straight to camera as they ignored the seated audience was an extremely awkward choice.

As Seth Rogen rightly said, it was “inelegant and strange.” Scrap it.And, for better or worse, this had to be the most eccentric list of film winners at any major award show ever held on American soil. It was like being at Cannes only with more deodorant. But this year’s Globes were infinitely superior to 2024, when the ceremony was a sleepy and predictable coronation for “Oppenheimer” and comedian Jo Koy’s abysmal hosting was an unwatchable cringe-fest. His terrific successor, Nikki Glaser, was terribly funny right from her first line: “Welcome to the 82nd annual Golden Globes: Ozempic’s biggest night!” She took aim at Chalamet’s facial hair and the awful “Joker: Folie à Deux” and she somehow managed in a joke to connect alleged rapist Sean “Diddy” Combs with Stanley Tucci … in a way that got a huge laugh. What of the winners? Pretty bizarre. For instance, one of the big victors was “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language French musical drama from Netflix about a Mexican drug cartel leader who transitions into a woman.It won motion picture – musical or comedy, international film, song and supporting act...