The Golden Globes should usually get an award for best awards show. Attendees, nominees and winners, sit around tables, schmooze, and drink so there’s a relaxed atmosphere. People go to the bathroom as well and admit it. Perhaps that’s because of the drinking. A famous example was when Christine Lahti won a Golden Globe for her brilliant performance on Chicago Hope but was in the bathroom so Robin Williams entertained and stalled until she could get back out and up to the stage. And there was a bathroom mention last night and some stars who seemed to have had a couple before they accepted their awards or presented so I should have enjoyed it. But I have to say I didn’t. I was a bit bored.

I was a bit distracted too, I’ll admit as I had a phone-in radio interview first thing this morning. My first live interview, so I was nervous and I kept thinking about that. Plus I was watching twitter and posting a bit on twitter and facebook while I watched so that was distracting too. Maybe those were the reasons. Others have blamed the meandering of the winners as they tried to navigate to the stage but that happens every year and every year it bugs me. So, onto some general highlights and lowlights, as I saw them, at the Golden Globes 2010.

Highlight
Mo’Nique’s acceptance speech. Who knew that one day Mo’Nique would win a Golden Globe? For acting. In a movie. Not me, at least not until Precious came out. Her touching acceptance speech was fabulous.

Lowlight
The ridiculous pre-show on NBC. It was pouring rain on the red carpet and none of the people out there interviewing seemed to know what they were doing. And Billy Bush seemed downright angry. The umbrellas were the main fashion accessory and they came up way too much in the pre-show interviews. Stuff like Bush saying “Look at you, Bradley Cooper, covered with an umbrella!”. Also Bush would keep asking people if they knew it was raining. Worst pre-show ever. Even Joan and Melissa Rivers could have done a better job than that.

Highlight
Both John Lithgow and Michael C Hall winning for their brilliant portrayals of serial killers in the series Dexter.

Lowlight
Seeing Michael C Hall looking sicker than I had anticipated. The actor is battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma and is in remission so I was surprised to see him looking so pale and sporting a black toque along with his handsome tux. Also, on a Michael C Hall related note, I know Jennifer Carpenter just plays his sister on Dexter and that they married last year in real life but since I only see them as brother and sister, there’s always an ewww factor for me when I see them that way, especially when they kiss. On the lips!

Highlight
Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech. She is so funny and she brought attention to both her mom and Haiti in great ways.

Lowlight
hurtbeardFacial hair. What is up? Is there a big Grizzly Adams or Unabomber movie coming out and everyone wants to try out for it? There were some ugly, ugly beards there last night, beards that looked uncared for and like small creatures could pop out of one at any minute. Worst of all was William Hurt, but John Hamm, George Clooney, and Jeff Bridges didn’t do much for forwarding beard love.

Highlight
When Julianna Margulies stopped to give George Clooney a little kiss (yes, even with that beard) after she won. Awwwm, it was Doug Ross and Carol Hathaway again.

Lowlight
Harrison Ford’s presenting an award. I don’t know what is up with Harrison Ford. He was slurring his words and one side of his face seemed droopy. I was afraid he was having a stroke right there on stage. Or maybe he’s had one. I don’t know but I hope he gets better from whatever caused that.

Highlight
Colin Farrell. That’s all. He was there and he was on stage presenting or something. I don’t know. I was distracted because Colin Farrell was on stage.

Lowlight
The faces of the Golden Globes. It was like looking over a sea of scary, rather unlife-like dolls. Plastic surgery, botox, collagen, or maybe people just made a face and then had some kind of plastic coating sprayed on them to keep that look intact. Going to get harder and harder to win awards when creating expressions with your face is no longer possible.

Highlight
Robert Downey Jr’s acceptance speech. Downey chose to not thank everyone and gave what I thought was the best speech of the night.

Lowlight
James Cameron’s hair and James Cameron telling us that he had to pee. I don’t need to know that James, thanks all the same.

Highlight
Ricky Gervais as host. I heart Ricky Gervais and I wish he’d been on there more. But I guess he was a bit out of control and made jabs at people so they didn’t like it. Some of those jabs made me cringe, but they hit the mark too. Ricky said it best when he joked, after implying that perhaps a Golden Globe could be bought, “I’m not going to do this again anyway”. If you missed it, here’s a video of Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes.