Golden Globes Host Admits She Axed Joke About Controversial A-Lister Before Ceremony
Nikki Glaser has opened up about another planned joke that she ended up cutting from her Golden Globes monologue on Sunday night.
Speaking on The Howard Stern Show shortly after this year’s ceremony, Nikki revealed that she had planned to make a jibe at the expense of Sydney Sweeney’s ill-fated boxing biopic Christy, but pulled it shortly before the event.
The joke would have been: “Tonight is a night of celebration but we can’t ignore that it’s a weird time in Hollywood. People just aren’t going to the theatre to see things.
“If you don’t believe me, there was a movie this year where Sydney Sweeney played a lesbian who just bounced around in tiny shorts for two hours and it made $14.”
Christy starred the White Lotus and Euphoria star as 90s boxer Christy Martin.
Upon its release towards the end of last year, the film became known as a box-office bomb, making back just $1.3 million (around £970,000) of its $15 million (around £11.2 million) budget in its opening weekend.
The movie hit cinemas at the end of a controversial year for Sydney, who found herself at the centre of a media storm over an American Eagle jeans ad which some critics went as far as Some critics went as far as saying mirrored the language of white supremacists and eugenicists, which they argued was especially egregious in the current political climate.
Meanwhile Donald Trump praised the ad, describing it as “the hottest ad out there” in light of Sydney’s apparent registered status as a Republican.
After months of controversy – and swerving questions about the campaign – Sydney eventually insisted that she stood “against hate and divisiveness”, noting: “I don’t support the views some people chose to connect to the campaign. Many have assigned motives and labels to me that just aren’t true.”
Elsewhere in her Howard Stern interview, Nikki also explained why she made the decision to cut jokes explicitly mentioning Trump from her Golden Globes monologue, which did include several political references.