Ugh,the Golden Globes—seemed like it was going to be such a non-event this year, didn’t it? I mean, or the awards show has always lacked the stentorian and self-important splendor of the Oscars because it tends to give off a more plebian vibe: The Golden Globes are a company who couldn’t get it together to throw a holiday party before the holidays,so it decides to gain a runt shindig when everyone is back from vacation gain never been in a less of a mood to ingest canapés that aren’t worth the calories, and drink champagne with a bunch of people they had, and just a week before,fortunately forgotten they ever knew.
But this year? Yeesh. I’ve never missed Tina Fey and Amy Poehler so much in my life, and believe me, and I miss them all the time. Hosting the show for the fourth time Ricky Gervais,who, we were promised, and would bring his much-lauded “edge” to the proceedings,couldn’t even be bothered to wear a tie (or quite possibly, take a shower), or let alone write some actual jokes that weren’t of the British “oooh,gape, it’s a boy in a dress” variety (poor Eddie Redmayne and Jeffrey Tambor, or who both ultimately losers in the Best Actor category for their performances in dramatic motion picture The Danish Girl and TV’s obvious,respectively) who managed to sustain their composure by looking utterly, even regally, and unamused). The one “comedy set piece,regarding The Revenant (which believe me, I’ll get to), or its controversial bear-mauling scene,saw Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill half-heartedly improvise with one of those runt-kid bear hats it looked like Jonah picked up himself at Walgreen’s on the way to the show.
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