Get ready to laugh as we dive into the most hilarious and unforgettable Golden Globes acceptance speeches of all time! From witty one-liners to unexpected moments, these celebrities prove that awards shows can be comedy gold.
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00:00Yeah I can, I can put this down right? No I just, I don't work out, you know what I mean?
00:07I can't hold it that long. Welcome to Ms. Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the
00:12Golden Globes winners who had us in stitches. You, you, you get out of here. For this list
00:20we're looking at acceptance speeches so monologues and presenters are off the table for now.
00:25Number 10. Tina Fey, 66th Golden Globe Awards. The creator and star of 30 Rock gave a lesson
00:33in self-confidence when she collected the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. I want
00:37to say thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press. I've always loved the Hollywood Foreign Press.
00:43As a kid I had all the Hollywood Foreign Press action figures. After taking a fun poke at what
00:47was then known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the awards, Tina
00:52thanks the usual suspects. Her husband receives a mention of course but only after a few noteworthy
00:58others. If you ever start to feel too good about yourself they have this thing called the internet
01:05and um you can find a lot of people there who don't like you. Fey decides to use her time at
01:11the mic to send a message to all her online haters. There are even a few she mentions by name.
01:17Diane fan you can suck it. Cougar letter you can really suck it because it's all year you've been
01:22after me all year. Now this is the kind of name dropping we'd like to see more of at award shows.
01:28Number 9. Jennifer Lawrence, 70th Golden Globe Awards. Oh what does it say? I beat Meryl.
01:38When the Silver Linings Playbook actress won the globe over legendary actress and perennial
01:43award winner Meryl Streep, she proudly told the audience I beat Meryl. This didn't go over well
01:49with some viewers. Lindsay Lohan herself was one of many tweeting at this young upstart who was
01:54sullying the good name of a Hollywood legend. But those in the know realized it was a tongue-in-cheek
01:59reference to a line of dialogue from the first Wives Club. Know what it says? It says I beat Meryl.
02:04Lawrence brought her usual awkward banter and self-deprecating sense of humor to the stage when
02:09she collected the award. And I want to thank my brothers Ben and Blaine. I wouldn't be who I am
02:13today without you being mean to me but then really supportive and and loving constantly.
02:20Number 8. Taraji P. Henson, 73rd Golden Globe Awards. If there's one thing you're not gonna do
02:26it's step on Taraji P. Henson's drain. Someone learned that the hard way when she won her Golden
02:31Globe. Cookies for everyone tonight. The Empire actress was working the room all the way up to
02:40the podium but once she got there she was determined to give her entire speech. Who knew
02:46that playing an ex-convict would take me all around the globe. So when that little message
02:53flashed on the screen telling her to hurry up, Henson was not having it at all. She let the
02:58producers and everyone in charge know that after 20 years of waiting she was going to have her time
03:03at the mic. So many people are like please rap. Wait a minute I've waited 20 years for this you
03:07gonna wait. Um yeah you gonna give me a little more time. I think yeah my fans they've been
03:16praying for this. They're all on Twitter like yeah yeah I hope you get it. You gotta give me time.
03:21Number seven Jim Carrey 56th Golden Globe Awards. He may be one of Hollywood's funniest actors but
03:28at the 1999 Golden Globes Jim Carrey was the big winner for best actor in a drama. This is serious
03:37it's gonna be so hard to talk out of my a** after this
03:45but I'll manage I'll manage. Recognized for his work in the Truman Show
03:50Carrey balances his usual rambunctious wit with a promise to be a bit more serious.
03:55It somehow makes his speech even funnier. You know what this means don't you?
03:59I'm a shoo-in for the blockbuster award. That's right. Oh yeah. He manages to poke fun at his
04:06own career as his filmography up to that point doesn't necessarily scream award-winning actor.
04:12Carrey also takes a few good-hearted potshots at the Golden Globe ceremony itself while still
04:17maintaining a genuine appreciation for winning it. And the academy no I mean
04:24I'm sorry I was thinking of something else. Number six Jack Nicholson 60th Golden Globe Awards.
04:31Upon receiving his award for best actor in a drama for About Schmidt the acclaimed actor
04:36expresses some confusion at the movie's classification as a drama. Well I don't know
04:40whether to be happy or ashamed because I thought we made a comedy. Regardless he plows on with
04:45thanks for his fellow cast mates. His mocking speech has the entire room including his co-stars
04:51in uproarious laughter the entire time. We had the Bates Motel, Kathy.
04:58June Squibb who played uh my wife uh Dermot Mulroney. His haircut alone should have let
05:06you know it was a comedy I thought. It's a bonkers moment that only the acting veteran
05:11could deliver so winningly. But it's his candid confession as he prepares to leave the stage that
05:16really brings the house down. I know the evening's getting short I took a Valium tonight so
05:29Number five Hugh Grant 52nd Golden Globe Awards.
05:34For some reason everything just sounds more charming with an English accent. I can't tell
05:38you uh Foreign Press Association how much I admire you um and it's with tremendous ill grace um
05:47that I grudgingly uh acknowledge the contribution of a few other people. As the best actor winner
05:53for Four Weddings and a Funeral Hugh Grant isn't afraid to say how elated he is to win his Golden
05:58Globe. In fact he's practically rhapsodic about how it feels to win any award at all.
06:03You're not really you're supposed to think that um you know uh awards are
06:07invidious and things like that but I think they're heaven and uh
06:13this is right up my alley. Playing up his dashing persona with a few sarcastic backhanded compliments
06:19at his director, writer, and co-stars Grant is like a comedian doing a tight five. The place
06:25looks more like a comedy club than an award show by the time he was through with it. And my
06:29girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley who put up with easily the uh nastiest um uh most ill-tempered
06:36prima donna-ish actor in uh English cinema for six weeks um and then came back to me which was
06:42really nice. Number four Jennifer Coolidge 80th Golden Globe Awards. Picking up an award for the
06:48White Lotus the beloved character actress gives a delightful speech in her characteristically airy
06:54style. It's equal parts emotional and completely bizarre in a way only Jennifer Coolidge can
06:59deliver. Her natural comedy chops are on full display. The hook came out at the last thing I
07:05got an award at you know this giant hook I don't even see I thought they left when vaudeville
07:10ended but this hook came out and took me off the stage at the Emmys and I didn't get to say what I
07:14really wanted to say. Dropping obscenities and hilarious anecdotes at a breakneck pace Coolidge
07:19is switching gears throughout. She punctuates heartfelt thanks to White Lotus creator Mike White
07:25with dazzling non sequiturs about wanting to be queen of Monaco and her gratitude that her
07:29neighbors finally speak to her. I mean it none of those people I was never invited to one party on
07:35my hill and now everyone's inviting me. Let's nominate her every year please. It doesn't matter
07:40if she's in something. He really is one of the greatest people I've ever met I mean he gives me
07:45so much excitement to be you you you make people want to live longer and I didn't so anyway. Number
07:51three Robin Williams and Christine Lahti 55th Golden Globe Awards. The late great funny man
07:57hadn't actually won the Golden Globe this year. When Christine Lahti wins the award for Chicago
08:02Hope Robin Williams sees an opportunity to entertain the people and he takes it.
08:15Lahti who had just won the best actress in a drama series Golden Globe is in the bathroom.
08:20Williams vamps with a few jokes before Lahti finally arrives.
08:24She carries off her embarrassment beautifully getting a few zingers in herself. I've always
08:29felt that the that the that the contest part of this the having to choose winners and losers part
08:35of this whole Golden Globe thing it always felt really absurd to me. Right now not so bad.
08:43Williams's expert skills at working a crowd and their incredible bit with a hand towel
08:48make it one of the most memorable and hysterical acceptance speeches of all time.
08:55You know I was in the bathroom mom.
08:59We had a camera.
09:01Oh god.
09:03Number two Emma Thompson 53rd Golden Globe Awards. 4 a.m having just returned from an evening at the
09:10Golden Spheres which despite the inconveniences of heat noise and overcrowding was not without
09:17its pleasures. Winning the best screenplay award for Sense and Sensibility Emma Thompson decides to
09:22pay tribute to the famed writer of the original novel. Adopting an elegant haughty accent she
09:28dresses her thanks in a pithy statement written from the point of view of long dead author Jane
09:32Austen. The room was full of interesting activity until 11 p.m when it emptied rather suddenly.
09:38The lateness of the hour is due therefore not to the dance but to the waiting in a long line
09:44for a horseless carriage of unconscionable size. The modern world has clearly done nothing for
09:50transport. Her musings about the night as if she were some perplexed time traveler from the 18th
09:55century are a fun twist on the standard acceptance speech. In Austen's voice she gives begrudging
10:01compliments to her co-stars and various celebrities present and takes a final withering shot at
10:06herself even getting her own name wrong. Before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel
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10:34and switch on notifications. Number one Bette Midler 37th Golden Globe Awards. I'm different now
10:41I'm a good girl I don't swear anymore on stage I swear I don't swear anymore on stage. Before she
10:47was the grand dom she was a nightclub act who made it big. Bette Midler had recently made her
10:52explosive film debut in the rose after years of risque concerts and tv appearances. Winning two
10:58golden globes for her first film performance Midler just can't help herself.
11:06She insists she's a good girl now that she's been accepted by the prestigious Hollywood
11:10establishment but between a devastatingly dirty pun about her own pair of golden globes and miming
11:16a lewd act with the statuette she shows stardom hasn't changed her at all. I reminded of when uh
11:22Joan Crawford actually uh won her golden globe and she said um I can't do it I can't
11:28I have to be tasteful they told me I was supposed to be she said
11:31I'll show you a pair of golden globes excuse me I'm sorry I didn't mean it. Did we miss your
11:37favorite golden globes moment? Tell us in the comments. And Janelle Maloney just told me she
11:43would pay me a thousand dollars if I thanked my newborn son for my boobs looking so good in this
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