Did you watch the Golden Globes Sunday night? If so, you might have seen the funny and poignant monologue from Andy Samberg And Sandra Oh, the Paddington 2 fan memes, Emma Stone seemingly apologizing about Aloha, the inimitable Carol Burnett’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Christian Bale thanking Satan — you know, the usual.
Meanwhile, people on Twitter were busy joking about the proceedings and kvetching about who did or didn’t win a shiny bauble (The full winners list is available here). Twitter users were even making jokes before the event started, with many people noticing that the woman serving FIJI water bottles came prepared to serve. People even included her in their 2019 predictions.
Plenty of folks also made jokes about Christian Bale’s speech, where he (as previously mentioned) thanked Satan for giving him inspiration on how to play Dick Cheney in Vice:
"Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role." – Christian Bale with the official 2019 mood 😂😂#GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/sUM1PMyLZn
— UPROXX (@UPROXX) January 7, 2019
I like watching an actor spend their entire career doing American accents and the second they win award it’s like “FANK YOU AND FANK ‘VYONE ‘HO ‘ELPED ME”
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) January 7, 2019
I know Christian Bale is *actually* British but it still feels like he’s pretending to be British as a bit
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 7, 2019
Christian Bale has taken too many roles from actual slightly out of shape actors with bad hairlines, and who will speak out about this non-problem if not me?
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) January 7, 2019
the only thing stopping christian bale from playing charles manson is the fact he’d fuck around and actually murder
— . (@jaboukie) January 7, 2019
All the greats… pic.twitter.com/oJjXb6uTpe
— Maggie Serota (@maggieserota) January 7, 2019
People also picked the low hanging fruit of calling a Netflix TV series The Kominsky Method:
"The Kominsky Method" sounds like something I should Google in an incognito window
— @hayesbrown.bsky.social (@HayesBrown) January 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/BoobsRadley/status/1082131331356581888
And some people didn’t win an award, even if they maybe should have:
https://twitter.com/yaelgrogbIas/status/1082116655550001152
https://twitter.com/amyslouadams/status/1082097326863335424
And some movies and shows did win an award, even if some Twitter users were rooting for a different nominee. Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody seemed to take a lot of flak, although if anyone tries to tell me Rami Malek didn’t earn that award I will fight them with knives.
Bohemian Rhapsody is the inspiring story of how a band triumphed against the odds to mangle its narratively unsatisfying career arc into a conventional biopic structure
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) January 7, 2019
OK WHO IS GREEN BOOK FUCKING
— Marcia Belsky (@MarciaBelsky) January 7, 2019
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY and GREEN BOOK are definitely the best movies of the year unless you ask the communities those movies were supposed to represent.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 7, 2019
Although it may be fair to argue that The Favourite got robbed.
https://twitter.com/twelveoclocke/status/1081667185771233281
Conspiracy theories abounded about how the winners were chosen:
https://twitter.com/rodimusprime/status/1082116733807329281
The Golden Globes are obsessed with giving awards to shows you haven't watched yet so you can't complain they got it wrong.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 7, 2019
Commercials were watched:
shoutout to everyone who is watching commercials for the first time in several months
— Netflix (@netflix) January 7, 2019
Glenn Close was there.
Glenn Close stopping by Lady Gaga's table to whisper, "nice try."
— Joel Kim Booster (@ihatejoelkim) January 7, 2019
There can be 100 dalmatians in a room… pic.twitter.com/noSQvkvmrt
— Samantha Highfill (@samhighfill) January 7, 2019
And other famous faces were the subject of jokes, like Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Jeff Bridges:
Do you think Jeff Bridges is in all those westerns because he’s always out in the desert smoking weed and shooting guns at stuff, and it’s easier to cast him than to film around him?
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) January 7, 2019
Taylor Swift handing the Golden Globe to Lady Gaga at the TV/movie awards pic.twitter.com/4vCLpIXwbb
— hattie (@haticebot) January 7, 2019
I didn’t see Olivia Colman accept her Golden Globe did she tell the producers who recast her in the American Broadchurch to suck her dick well then great
— Karen Kilgariff (@KarenKilgariff) January 7, 2019
live shot of Jeff bezos making $28,000 pic.twitter.com/iG1hGNg80T
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 7, 2019
Rami Malek looks like every character from Lord of the Rings at once
— ND Stevenson (@Gingerhazing) January 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/1082110398948667393
But things are pretty much the same in the end:
weird that america is not a more unified country despite decades of golden globe winners emploring it to be
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) January 7, 2019