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When the Golden Globes launched the award for Best Podcast, the first major TV and film awards show to introduce an audio category, the organizers probably didn’t expect they’d celebrate a former host.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler picked up the award, beating the likes of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy, The Mel Robbins Podcast, Smartless and NPR’s Up First.
Poehler, who hosted the event three times, jokingly trashed the latter when she accepted the award. “I have great respect for all the people that I have nominated with. I’m big fans of all of you, except for NPR, just a bunch of celebs phoning it in, so try harder,” she said.
The Parks and Recreation star picked up the award from Snoop Dogg, who joked, “Before podcasts, I was what y’all listened to driving around in your cars. To you podcasters, y’all better hope I don’t get in that game.” He also promoted the Represent podcast, focused on the history of Death Row Records.
Ahead of the winner being announced, Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser did a recorded bit, parodying Nicole Kidman’s AMC adverts with a bunch of jokes about podcast advertisers such as Squarespace. “Podcasts, they’re just what we have now,” she concluded.
Poehler added, “This is just how I pictured it, Snoop giving me the award. I don’t know about awards show, but when they get it right, it makes sense.”
She went on to a more serious point. “This is an attempt to try to make a very rough and unkind world filled with a little bit more love and laughter and laughing with people not at them, and we just have such a good time making [Good Hang].”
Good Hang with Amy Poehler is an interview show with the comedian speaking to the likes of Tina Fey, Rashida Jones, Kathryn Hahn, Michelle Obama, Dakota Johnson, Olivia Colman, Maya Hawke, Ariana Grande and Hayley Williams.
It is produced by Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and her new podcast boss Jenna Weiss-Berman in association with The Ringer.
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