Mix hundreds of celebrities and their enablers, an open bar, and a three-hour live telecast, and what do you get?
Lots of bleepin' bleeps and off-the-wall moments.
The Golden Globe Awards telecast is always a minefield of gaffes, curse words, political statements, and general stupid statements, and Sunday night's was no different.
As a matter of fact, it may have been one of the bleepiest of them all.
Here then are some of the unforgettable bleeps, oopses, and did-he-just-say-that's of last night's festivities.
Ricky Gervais
As a presenter, while drinking a beer onstage, said: "I can't believe I'm not nominated. What a waste of a campaign. Today is the last time I have sex with 200 middle-age journalists. It was horrible. Really. A lot of them didn't even speak English. Europeans with wispy beards. The men were worse."
Tina Fey
While accepting a Golden Globe, Fey gave this admonishment to her award-winning peers, should they go feeling too good about themselves: "They have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you. I'd like to address some of them now. BabsonLaCrosse, you can suck it."
Seth Rogen
On missing out on the 1980s, Rogen said that it was cool that he and Mickey Rourke got to get drunk together this year, but had he been around back in the 1980s, "We would have been doing coke together."
Tracy Morgan
When you're watching Tracy Morgan, waiting for him to get bleeped is half the fun. And while Morgan shocked the crowd when he strode to the podium to accept an award for Tiny Fey, his shockingly bleep-free-speech was maybe the funniest of the night: "Tina Fey and I had an agreement that if Barack Obama won, I would speak for the show from now on. Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America. Deal with it, Cate Blanchett. We'd like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. Especially me 'cause the black man can't get no love at the Emmys. I love you, Europe. That's wasssup."
Mickey Rourke
During his acceptance speech after winning best actor for "The Wrestler," Mickey made repeated reference to "balls," said a few bleepable curse words, repeatedly, and was flipped off from the audience by his director, on camera. Then, oddly but sweetly, the once down-and-out actor thanked his pets. "Sometimes when you're alone, all you got is your dog, and they meant the world to me."
Awww. Nothing bleep-able about that.
Personally, I thought it was a terrific show. However, giving Heath Ledger the award was to me a cop out. His performance was good, yes. But Aaron Eckhart's performance was good too. Can't say that about Christian Bale. All in all, Globes was a good show.
ReplyDeleteWell, I can't see why giving an award to a dead person makes any sense at all. I tuned in an hour late so missed most of it.
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