Golden Globes 2024 were a new low for dying award shows

nypost.com:

2024 Golden Globes, the award show made a bunch of reforms to its ethically wobbly voting body, got a new owner and moved to a different network.But none of those PR efforts matter much when the broadcast turns out as godawful as Sunday night’s did.If only we’d 100% canceled the Globes when we had the chance.Wow, was this shindig agonizing.

The evening was unbearably unfunny and had just two or three great speeches over three long hours. The whole “celebrities get drunk for our amusement” shtick was nowhere to be found.

A-listers slumped in their seats frowning as though detention still had 90 minutes left to go.The No. 1 change the Globes should have made during its period of grand reinvention?

Scrap the host altogether unless they can enlist somebody as delightful and hilarious as Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell were when they presented.Well, the Globes couldn’t, and viewers — not to mention the celebrities trapped in the Beverly Hilton’s ballroom — were forced to endure comedian Jo Koy’s unbearable opening monologue.His level of humor was perhaps best exemplified by his #Barbenheimer bit.“‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project,” he said. “And ‘Barbie’ is about a plastic doll with big boobies.”I groaned so loud I thought my upstairs neighbor might call 911.Koy actually made every “Oppenheimer” joke imaginable except the most obvious one: I’m bombing up here!The situation became so awkward that he snapped at the crowd like it was an off night at the Comedy Cellar.“Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago,” the comic said. “You want a perfect monologue?