Trump fatigue: Golden Globes host on why she kept jokes politics-free
Host Nikki Glaser says she wanted to keep her patter mostly nonpolitical at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
But the comic wasn't too shy to try out the junked jokes on "The Howard Stern Show" earlier this week.
'You just don’t say that guy's name right now.'
On ICE
Reading from her phone, Glaser started with a couple of barbs aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"I was going to come in at some point and say, 'I'm hearing from the bar that we're out of ice. And you know, we don't really need ice. And actually, I hate ice.'"
Glaser said the joke was a little too simple and off the mark, though.
"It just felt like, oh, even that's just being too trivial. … It's hard to strike the right tone," she said, according to Variety.
Orange man banned
The 41-year-old also admitted to scrapping an idea Steve Martin sent her about the president renaming the show's venue to the "Trump Beverly Hilton."
"You just don’t say that guy's name right now," she explained. "I just want to give it space."
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Glaser told Stern she's no longer as precious about cutting material as she used to be.
"You just gotta move on and [say] 'let's just write a better joke.'"
Mixed signaling
Many of the celebs in attendance didn't seem to share Glaser's determination to keep the proceedings nonpartisan. Some sported pins in protest of ICE with slogans like "Ice Out" and "Be Good."
The latter is in reference to Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent while allegedly attempting to ram him with her car.
The award show host still took jabs at the network airing the ceremonies, mocking CBS for allegedly pulling a story about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
"And the award for most editing goes to CBS News! Yes, CBS News: America's newest place to see BS news," Glaser said during the awards.
Just kidding
Glaser also shared a few rejected jabs at the A-list nominees, including riffing that "One Battle After Another" star Sean Penn received his nod for "Best Neck Veins."
She also mocked Penn's co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for "always squinting."
"I mean, I assume it's to read your girlfriend's ID. Just making sure that the year starts with a two," she added.
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FREE WILLY: Miffed Maher blames Hollywood speech police for awards snubs
Bill Maher's first-ever Golden Globes nomination didn't exactly leave him giddy with excitement.
Days before losing to fellow Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television nominee Ricky Gervais, the caustic comic seemed resigned to defeat.
'I speak freely, and this woke town f**king hates that.'
Speech impediment
In a conversation with his "Club Random" podcast guest Joel Edgerton, Maher said he knows exactly why he's always ignored when Hollywood hands out the hardware.
"Obviously, it's something I said. Well, it's everything I said."
"I speak freely, and this woke town f**king hates that," Maher continued. "And that's OK. I've made my peace with that. So I know how this goes."
Maher noted that he's never won an Emmy either, despite a combined 33 nominations (a figure Variety later corrected to 41) for his shows "Politically Incorrect" and "Club Random."
Thanks to the Globes' new Best Podcast category, the pot-addled pundit has a whole new way to get snubbed. This year the award went to "Good Hang with Amy Poehler." "Club Random" failed to secure a nomination.
I'm with stupid
As Maher's rant built up steam, he rejected Edgerton's gentle suggestion that as "two white dudes," they should be careful with their critiques.
"The epicenter of woke stupid is this town. It really is," Maher said, referring to accusations of "cultural appropriation," which he said has been levied against everyone from Elvis Presley to Bradley Cooper.
"[Elvis] sang the way he sang. He grew up in the South. I mean, the cultures mixed, you know. I don't — I think it's just pointless to hate him for it," Maher said.
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Nose woes
As for Cooper, Maher mocked those who accused him of "Jewface" for wearing a prosthetic nose to play Leonard Bernstein.
"The 'Jew nose' they called it. ... I mean, 'Jew nose?' Do they even know how stupid they sound?" Maher asked.
"I mean, to use that word. They made up this horrible word and then were like, 'Oh, but we're the good people. We're saying, whoa, no Jew nose.' It's just so silly."
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It’s impossible to see the current list of Oscar nominees as anything more than different iterations of the same tired woke formula.Steve Guttenberg helps with hometown evacuations as Los Angeles wildfire rages
Pray for California.
A massive fire continues to rage through the west side of Los Angeles today, spread by winds of up to 100 miles per hour and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in the Pacific Palisades area.
Hollywood journalists want nothing more than a Resistance sequel, but so far it’s not happening.
The fire started Tuesday morning in the Highlands neighborhood, nestled in the hills high above the Pacific Coast Highway. Only one road — Palisades Drive — connects the Highlands to the rest of the city. It soon became jammed as residents fled the area.
Some residents even abandoned their vehicles, causing a problem for first responders racing toward the conflagration.
Lefty Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had more important business to attend to in Africa — celebrating the inauguration of Ghana's new president — but a local news crew did spot a prominent local pitching in: "Police Academy" actor Steve Guttenberg.
"If you leave your car behind, leave the key in there so a guy like me can move your car so that these fire trucks can get up there," Guttenberg pleaded to viewers.
“There are people stuck up there," he continued. "So we’re trying to clear Palisades Drive, and I’m walking up there as far as I can, moving cars. ... There are families up there, there are pets up there. There are people who really need help.”
The "Three Men and a Baby" star, a longtime resident of Pacific Palisades, served as grand marshal for the neighborhood's 2024 Fourth of July parade.
God bless the Gute — and the brave men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Global cooling
Come back, Ricky!
The Golden Globes handed out trophies Sunday night, but a smaller crowd than usual showed up to watch it.
This year’s telecast, hosted by Nikki Glaser, snagged just 9.3 million viewers, down 2% from last year’s disastrous turn from last-minute fill-in host Jo Koy.
Those numbers don’t sound awful, but just five years ago the show drew double that audience. Credit 2020 host Ricky Gervais, who skewered the Hollywood elite so relentlessly that some stars may still be in therapy from it …
Orange Man Bad fatigue?
Hollywood journalists want nothing more than a Resistance sequel, but so far it’s not happening.
Stars united against President Donald Trump early in the 2016 presidential campaign. Sarah Silverman was among the first to play the Hitler Card(TM) against Trump. It failed. Madonna somehow avoided a Secret Service door-knock after saying she dreamed of blowing up the White House.
Now, with Trump’s commanding Nov. 5 victory in pocket, Celebrity Nation could play its Orange Man Bad greatest hits. So far, the band remains pretty quiet.
The Hollywood Reporter mourned that reality in a recent op-ed. Now, Variety takes a swing at the subject, reading between the lines to find that the true-blue Resistance is about to break open.
Really. Just wait. It’s coming.
“Entertainment Executives Want to Play Ball with Trump. The Stars Who Work for Them May Have a Different Idea,” reads the headline. The article cited trans actor Karla Sofia Gascon’s Golden Globes speech for his winning film “Emilia Perez” as proof.
If you squint, you can see the writer double- and triple-crossing his fingers.
“I am who I am … not who you want." Talk about defiance! Her message was about the dignity and rights of trans people, but given the timing of it, at a globally televised awards ceremony taking place two weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump, you could hear another message nestled inside it: that the resistance isn’t going away.
Four-plus years ago, stars actively wished for Trump’s death. Now, you have to read between the lines of an awards show speech to glean something remotely Resistance-y …
Clint laughs last
Warner Bros. Discovery had what could be Clint Eastwood’s last movie and said, “Eh, let’s dump it on streaming.”
“Juror #2,” starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, and J.K. Simmons, appeared in a smattering of theaters before heading to VOD and Max. The film follows a father-to-be (Hoult) who fears he has a personal, and deadly, connection to the case he’s been asked to help adjudicate.
Now, Eastwood is having the last laugh. The film has sat in the number-one spot on Max’s top movie list since debuting on the platform Dec. 20. Oh, and critics loved the movie, giving it a 92% “fresh” rating at RottenTomatoes.com.
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