Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, in their opening monologue at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, quickly noted the ceremony marked their second consecutive go-around as co-hosts.
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Fey and Poehler displayed the comic chemistry hatched during their “Saturday Night Live”/”Weekend Update” days. Theirs is less a comic/straight woman style than a humorous and healthy tag-team competition of the quick and clever. They’re smart, funny friends brimming with wit that’s sharp, but rarely cruel, even as they jabbed at Hollywood’s tendency take itself – and its award shows – too seriously.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of “Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family.” Follow him on Twitter.
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