Seth Meyers' Didn't Hold Back At The Golden Globes
Seth Meyers opened up the 75th annual Golden Globes with one very telling line: "Good evening, ladies and remaining gentlemen." It spoke to the tone of his entire introduction, which wove in several of Hollywood's most important issues including racism, sexism, and nepotism, but focused on the ongoing harassment scandal overtaking the entertainment industry. All in all, his introduction aimed every zinger up at the widely criticized systems of power that allowed Hollywood to function on a less-than-balanced scale.
One of Meyers's jokes, "for the male nominees in the room, it will be the first time in three months you aren’t terrified to hear your name read out loud," alluded to the seeming ubiquity of sexual harassment, and he continued to hammer the idea home with several jabs at Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey. The darkest line was probably when he said Harvey Weinsten would return to the Golden Globes in 20 years when he would be "the first person to be booed during the In Memoriam segment." Damn.
Meyers didn't stop at showing support for the #MeToo movement. He joked with Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out when he pointed out that the Golden Globes are also full of white people desperate to reclaim their youth (a big plot point in the movie, if you haven't seen it), and performed a Globes 2018 version of his "Jokes Seth Can't Tell" bit from Late Night With Seth Meyers, which gave punchlines to Jessica Chastain, Billy Eichner, and Issa Rae, as well as an extended bit about Seth mansplaining comedy to Amy Poehler.
There were jokes about Oprah and Tom Hanks running for president, that peach scene in Call Me By Your Name, Woody Allen being a disgusting sea monster" (a la The Shape of Water), and his own position as the first host of an awards show in the post-Weinstein world ("Hello to hosts of other upcoming awards shows that are watching me tonight - like the first dog they shot into outer space"), and while most of the jokes landed, some felt like they came a bit too soon (that Get Out bit got a different timbre of laughs compared to others). Still, Meyers wasn't afraid to go after the issues that have been at the forefront of the press, and set a high bar for any other host coming after him to cover the awards during the long-deserved reckoning of Hollywood's culture and operations.
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