Sandra Oh Spoke Out For Representation During Her Golden Globes Monologue: 'This Moment Is Real'

The 2019 Oscars might still be in need of a host (maybe?), however this year's Golden Globes never had that problem. Still, the dynamic, potentially random, nevertheless wonderfully charismatic duo of Killing Eve's Sandra Oh and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Andy Samberg kicked things off Sunday night (January 6) with a critical announcement: "One lucky audience member will host the Oscars!" Samberg said.


It was the begin of what turned out to be a different sort of Globes monologue, one that discussed a big game of "roasting" the Hollywood elites gathered at the Beverly Hilton however ended up humorously, genuinely complimenting each person as an alternative. It felt nice! Nevertheless why Samberg and Oh for this job? "We're the only two people left in Hollywood who haven't gotten in trouble for saying something offensive," Oh mentioned. Fair enough.


What followed was not a common "Gervais-style" roast, as evident by the onslaught of praise that followed. Oh looked right at Bradley Cooper and mentioned, simply, "You are hot." Samberg looked right at Michael B. Jordan and mentioned one of the few universal truths we have on this fragile little Earth: "You a meal, Michael!" The awesome rhinoceroses from Black Panther got a shout-out, also, as did the pernicious, dark creep of tech as a distraction in our day-to-day life — you know, to keep things balanced.


maybe the hands-down funniest moment was Oh and Samberg referencing Lady Gaga's oft-repeated adage about how there would be 100 people in a room and, well, you should know the rest by now. Gaga got a kick out of it, anyway.


But right considering that all of the jokes — and soon following the hosts used their authority to boot Jim Carrey from the film section (he's on TV now; it's the rules) — Oh took a moment to earnestly explain the real, powerful reason why she took the hosting gig. "I mentioned yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change," she mentioned. "And I'm not fooling myself: Next year would be different. It probably will be. Nevertheless now, this moment is real. Trust me, it is real. Because I visualize you, and I visualize you. All these faces of change. And right now so will each person else."


It felt right, each year immediately after the Time's Up movement made its biggest splash yet in Hollywood, have the ability to see the progress in one of the most crucial rooms in showbiz.


Oh, an one-time Globe winner for Grey's Anatomy, is up for a Best Actress – Television Series Drama Globe tonight for her work because the relentless however benevolent MI5 agent Eve Polastri on BBC America's Killing Eve. Samberg, meanwhile, is riding the high of his beloved Brooklyn Nine-Nine being saved from its cancellation on Fox by NBC execs, who scooped up the show and will air its sixth season starting January 10. (He also won a Globe for his work on that show in 2014.)


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