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Renee Gauthier is a stand-up comedian, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles who came out of her hometown Chicago comedy scene in the early 2000s. Her first big break came when NBC cast her to play Victoria Beckham’s personal assistant in the reality series-turned-special, 2007’s Victoria Beckham: Coming To …
NBC wasted little time trying to make us forget about last week’s Golden Globes by letting us know already that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler would return for a fourth time hosting the Globes come January 2021. Fey and Poehler hosted three consecutive times from 2013-2015, in between turns by …
Huge ups to Ramy Youssef and Awkwafina, who took home their first Golden Globe Awards over the weekend. Youssef won Best Actor in a TV Comedy for playing a fictionalized version of his younger self in the Hulu series, Ramy. Awkwafina won Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or …
Ricky Gervais will take the piss out of Hollywood one more time, as the Golden Globes have asked him to return and host the 2020 awards. The three-hour telecast airs live on NBC on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. “Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse. But this …
“Does this mean I get to accept it every year? But you know, my first love growing up was the movies. I’d see as many as six to eight films a week with my grandmother who raised me. And then later, when I was a teenager, we got our first …
Carol Burnett has won lifetime achievement awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Peabody Awards, the Mark Twain Prize, Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now she’ll get her own award in her own name from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Golden Globes will launch The …
It’s not every year we get major news on four different major awards in 24 hours, but 2018 is not every year. The Golden Globes decided they enjoyed seeing Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg present one award together so much, they asked the two actors to pair up and host …
OK, first things first: The annual caveats about the Golden Globe Awards. They’re not the G in EGOT, so don’t get it twisted. Why not? Because G stands for Grammy. Also, because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decides the Globes, and they’re peculiarly particular about who they like and why, …
How were the 2017 Golden Globes for you? Aside from the actual winners (see who won the Golden Globes here), it seems most people kept talking about Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech for her lifetime achievement award, while those who wonder about the humor inherently expected at the Globes focused on …
Look. We all get caught up in awards season, no matter how relevant or ridiculous the award or the process by which they award them. With that in mind, your annual reminder that the Golden Globes have become an annual ritual, and it’s all controlled by the Hollywood Foreign Press …
