12/18/2023 0 Comments Andy sambergSAMBERG A lot of people get to the party at the Globes. I feel like people want to get to the party more quickly at the Globes. OH They’re just drinking, they’re not eating. It’s a little more intimate, it’s a smaller room, people are looser because they’re eating and drinking. The Globes are a different room than the Emmys. OH We have five days! Seriously, we have five days. SAMBERG Well, we had months and months to plan for it, whereas … Hey, what did you learn from hosting the?Emmys? I’m going to make you a crappy little tinfoil fake Globe, just in case you don’t win, and I’m going to bring it out and give it to you and be like, “You’re always a winner to me.” That’s why I’m excited to do it with you ’cause you’re such an incredible performer. I like playing off someone else and having there be a looseness to it and the ability to try things that are not necessarily just straight jokes to prompter. Seth was incredible last year - and it was such a tricky year with everything that was coming to light, and he really threaded the needle well - but the years that are more like how I would dream of doing it were Tina and Amy’s. That said, I am so much happier to be doing it with you than to do it alone. SAMBERG Well … ( Laughs.) I enjoyed all those experiences a great deal, but the Globes is a great room for?comedy, so it’s something that I always thought I’d love to do. SAMBERG The MTV Movie Awards, the Spirit Awards and the Emmys. Or you’re like, “I’m about to close the biggest deal!” And then it falls apart, and you’re like, “Noooo, I told my parents!” If you’ve ever been in our job, you’ve at some point suffered the embarrassment of being like, “I’m on this thing!” And then you get cut out of it. I was actually so scared of it that I didn’t want to say it until it was actually announced. OH No, this ( puts both hands over her face) is how I was with it. SAMBERG So when you got asked to do this, you were shooting Killing Eve. I just could not let this opportunity pass me by, the life experience of being this scared of something. SANDRA OH I said yes because you were going to do it! Honestly, I said yes even though it was so terrifying to me, really terrifying. Says Oh, “I’m not interested in that at all.” With a few nudges from THR, they also delved into touchier topics, from the ghosts of social media past to the Trump quotient viewers can expect on the Globes telecast (hint: It’s low). “And then the stars aligned, and we feel like we’ve won the lottery.” Despite being utterly exhausted on this warm mid-December morning - Oh, 47, has just flown in from London, where she shoots BBC America’s Killing Eve (for which she’s up for a best actress Globe), and Samberg, 40, just broke from filming Brooklyn (for which he won a 2014 Globe) - the co-hosts jump into a lively dialogue, edited here for length and clarity, about how to make Hollywood laugh in 2019 and the one thing they won’t do onstage. “We thought, ‘What a coup it’d be to get them,’?” says Cheeks. With hopes of conjuring a hit one-two punch à la Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the execs recalled Samberg and Oh’s turn at the Emmys. Oh was the one packing the shock value, which is exactly what NBC Entertainment co-chairmen George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy and producer Dick Clark Productions (which shares a parent company with THR) were after in the first year of NBC’s new eight-year deal to telecast the Globes, seen in 2018 by 19 million people. Samberg, a longtime member of the NBCUniversal family (the SNL alum’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, dropped by Fox, relaunches on NBC four days later) with a steady track record of hosting gigs, was an obvious choice. There’s a perfectly fine chair across from him, but instead, Oh settles on the sofa, throwing her feet up on?his lap, and declaring, “I’m in our dynamic already.” It’s the first time the pair - who are more mutually admiring colleagues than showbiz pals - have been together since signing on to host the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. Andy Samberg is sitting on a couch in a room on the Universal lot when Sandra Oh walks in with a cup of soup.
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