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Flu Shots And Satan: Here Are The Funniest Moments From the 2019 Golden Globes

"Andy Samberg calling Michael B. Jordan a snack on live television is the highlight of my life."

by Joseph Earp  7 January 2019
Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh killed the Golden Globes

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There’s nothing as enjoyably chaotic as live television, as the Golden Globes have proved every single goddamn year since their inception.

The 2019 ceremony was no different. Lines were flubbed! Overexcited hosts were adorably rough around the edges! Emma Stone was shamed! It was exactly the kind of soupy, star-studded mess that awards-watching veterans have come to love.

So here, feast your eyes on some of our favourite gently disastrous moments from the 2019 Golden Globes:

Sandra Oh Won Our Hearts And Minds

  • When Sandra Oh called Crazy Rich Asians the first studio film to star an Asian-America lead since Ghost In The Shell and Aloha (and Emma Stone loudly apologised for her role in the latter from the audience.)

  • When she loaded up the Crazy Rich Asians cast table with Pepcid to guard against Asian Glow…

  • And then offered her own little take on Asian mums.

  • When she slipped in a nice little roast of First Man.

  • When she won her own (very deserved) gong for Killing Eve, and started her speech by shouting “KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLING EVVVVVVVVVVVVVE” like she was announcing the entrance of a wrestler.

Can Andy And Sandra Host The Oscars Too?

  • When Oh introduced Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman as the leads of a Three Stooges reboot (would watch that movie, tbh).
  • When Samberg made one of the few political jokes of the night, ribbing that Vice had ‘invaded’ the Best Comedy category.

  • When he and Oh dispersed honest-to-God doctors into the audience to give out free flu shots, as a neat parody of the Oscars’ pizza delivery gag.

  • When they crushed on Michael B. Jordan and Bradley Cooper, as any human being with a pulse would obviously do.

  • When they gently negged Chris Pine and his “busted face”

  • When Oh said everyone should get ready to get, uh, frisky over the cast of This Is Us.

  • And when Samberg took a moment out of his repertoire to highlight the American government’s illegal secret war against members of radical group the Black Panthers.

Most Of The Guest Hosts Were Absolutely Off-Chops

  • When Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney ‘revealed’ they weren’t wearing any underwear (and that they both got their start in softcore porn.)
  • When Harrison Ford came to stage looking and speaking as though he had imbibed an entire brewery.

  • When Maya Rudolph totally proposed to Amy Poehler for real onstage, you guys.

  • When Dick Van Dyke made a crack about his advanced age before anybody else could.

Some Of The Acceptance Speeches Were Nuts…

  • When Christian Bale thanked Satan for inspiring his performance playing arch-warmonger Dick Cheney in Vice.

  • Oh, and when he revealed his wife had told him to keep his speech short in case he said something that’d ruin his career.
  • When Patricia Clarkson said the director of Sharp Objects demanded “everything from me but sex”.
  • When the director of Something About Mary and Shallow Hal, Peter Farrelly, used his acceptance speech for winning Best Comedy with his film Green Book to lecture the audience about how to solve racism.

  • When Farrelly’s son snuck on stage even though he had literally nothing to do with Green Book.
  • Oh, and then when the entire internet became extremely horny for Peter Farrelly’s son.

…But Olivia Colman’s Was The Best

  • When Olivia Colman started her speech with, “Cor blimey”.
  • Also, when, a few minutes later, Colman referred to Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone as “my bitches”.

  • Also, when a few minutes after that, Colman said that getting to eat all the way through The Favourite was “amazing”.
  • Basically Olivia Colman’s whole speech, which should have itself won an award.