Comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler kicked off the 78th Golden Globes on an awkward note by mocking the organization behind the annual awards show while also criticizing its lack of diversity.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Call the Golden Globe Nominees Flashy Garbage in No-Holds-Barred Monologue E! 3/1/2021
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After a more than five-year break,
For the first time in the show s history, the
Saturday Night Live alumni kicked off the show, with Amy at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and Tina at 30 Rockefeller Center s Rainbow Room in New York City.
And though they were thousands of miles apart, the two seemed closer than ever thanks to a split screen. Tina even got to caress Amy s face!
From there, the ladies went on to detail the differences between the movies and TV shows nominated, before touching on the ongoing scandal surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association took a moment at tonight s Golden Globes ceremony to address the fact that it has no Black members and has not had a single one for two decades. We must have Black journalists in our organization, representatives from the HFPA said during the televised broadcast.
In the days leading up to the ceremony, a
Los Angeles Timesinvestigation found that none of the HFPA s 87 members are Black. And in a recent report from
Variety, board chair and former president Meher Tatna confirmed that the group, which votes on Golden Globe nominees and winners, has not had a Black member since she joined in 2002.