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Golden Globes Host Starts Show With Shot At Kamala Harris

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Two months after her stinging defeat, Vice President Kamala Harris is losing her sheen among the Hollywood elite, with the host of Sunday evening’s Golden Globes awards show relegating her to the butt of several brutal jokes.

In her opening monologue, comedian and host Nikki Glaser ragged on Hollywood for failing to convince the American people to support Harris, a reminder that the opinions of George Clooney, Matt Damon, and other liberal stalwarts are less relevant than ever. “I am not here to roast you tonight,” Glaser began in a viral clip. “How could I, really? You’re all so famous, so talented, so powerful. I mean, you could really do anything.”

Then she struck. “I mean, except tell the country who to vote for.”

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Glaser wasn’t done. “It’s okay, you’ll get ’em next time,” she went on as the audience laughed, “if there is one. I’m scared. Ariana [Grande], hold my finger.” The “Wicked” star reached out from the audience, leaning into the joke.

The comedian’s bit came just a week after Whitney Cummings, a peer, joined hosts of CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage, where she joked that Harris “was forced on us so hard you’d think she was patented by Pfizer!” The Democrats, she continued, “couldn’t hold a primary because they were too busy holding a body upright,” a reference to the frailty of then-candidate President Joe Biden. After turning to Anderson Cooper to see if the network had cut her off, she was encouraged to continue. “It’s amazing the pro-choice party didn’t give their voters one when it came to the presidential candidate,” Cummings joked.

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The 2024 election was comedy gold, especially for jokers ready to call out Hollywood for standing behind President Biden up until the moment they didn’t. Clooney, who famously wrote an op-ed encouraging Biden to drop out just weeks after throwing him a $30 million fundraiser, placed the blame on former President Barack Obama for encouraging him to publish after fellow stars eviscerated him for damaging Biden’s brand. Once Harris got into the race, a who’s who of celebrity endorsers like Beyonce, Eva Longoria, and Oprah lent their support to the Democratic nominee, appearing at rallies or using their platforms to bring attention and money to her campaign.

All the star power was not without a steep price, however. Following the election, a postmortem of the Harris campaign revealed $20 million in outstanding debt, a sum donors were reportedly furious with, given the $2.5 million paid to Oprah’s production company for a primetime interview.

Nearly five years earlier to the day, comedian Ricky Gervais hosted the 2020 Golden Globes, where he performed his jaw-dropping, sometimes censored monologue, reminding Hollywood elites to keep their opinions to themselves. “If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech; you’re in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing of the real world,” he said, the New York Times reported. “If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god, and —,” he continued, gesturing offstage. Tom Hanks did not seem amused.

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