Nikki Glaser absolutely torched podcasts at the Golden Globes, and as someone who is insufferable enough to have a podcast, I thank her for her service.
The bit was a spoof of Nicole Kidman’s dramatic AMC cinema ad, right down to the pinstripe suit and hyper-earnest voiceover, except instead of worshipping the magic of movies, it worshipped… sitting in your car listening to two people debate biscuits like it’s world-changing discourse.
“We come to our cars for podcasts, because we need that. All of us. That indescribable feeling when the episode starts to play,” the narration goes.
From there, the ad basically does a lap around every single thing that makes podcasts have the ability to comfort you and make you question the state of society. There’s the small talk that somehow lasts longer than the actual premise — “What’s your current favourite cookie?
“It’s current and always: chocolate chip cookie” — followed by a forensic breakdown of dinner times. On Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang Podcast, Amy asks Gwyneth Paltrow “What time do you like to eat dinner?
To which she replies, “Like at six. I did 5:45 last night.”
Amy rightfully remarks, “Incredible.”
Nikki continues to insist this is all transcendent stuff: “Not just entertained, but reborn together”.
The sharpest jab lands on “vulnerable moments hijacked by inappropriate ad copy”, which is, unfortunately, the most accurate sentence ever written about the medium.
We see Dr Jane Goodall confessing, “I definitely wish we could have carried on with that marriage because it was a good one,” only to be immediately interrupted by, “Call Her Daddy is brought to you by Tinder”. It’s brutal, it’s also correct.
The bit hits its chaotic crescendo with a knock at the door from Marc Maron who hounds Nikki about Squarespace, prompting her drive to off. Art really does imitate life!
The punchline to all this was that the Globes weren’t just roasting podcasts for vibes, they were also anointing them. The ceremony handed out its first-ever Golden Globe for a podcast, which went to Amy Poehler’s Good Hang with Amy Poehler.
Her show, built around warm, long-form chats, has quietly become one of the rare celebrity podcasts that actually feels like a proper conversation rather than a tax write‑off. In her speech, she said, “I don’t know about award shows. But when they get it right, it makes sense,” which is a very elegant way of saying: nailed it.
She added that she has huge respect for the medium and for everyone she was nominated with, before joking that she’s a big fan of all of them “except for NPR”, calling them “just a bunch of celebs phoning it in” and telling them to try harder.
Oh, and Snoop Dogg presenting the award while very openly high was a special kind of chaos.
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