2026 Golden Globes live chat: Host Nikki Glaser takes a swing at CBS News to open show

Follow on unrecorded arsenic Times columnists Mary McNamara and Glenn Whipp sermon the biggest winners, astir memorable moments and much from the 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

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5:16 p.m. First award, for Female Supporting Actor successful a Motion Picture, goes to Teyana Taylor, opening the “One Battle After Another” sweep. —M.M.

5:14 p.m. Glaser’s monologue: What people would you springiness it, Mary? Solid. I laughed a mates of times. Savaged CBS News. That’s worthy fractional a letter. I’ll springiness it a B. —G.W.

C+. —M.M.

5:13 p.m. “Timothée Chalamet is the archetypal histrion who had to enactment connected musculus for a movie astir ping pong.” Now I’m Team Nikki too. —M.M.

5:08 p.m. A Golden Globes contented ... poking amusive astatine the property of Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends. But she isn’t incorrect about, like, that’s the lone happening we cognize astir him. That and helium vapes. I besides emotion that Sean Penn is laughing along. And that helium didn’t comb his hair. —G.W.

Oh helium combed his hair. That level of dishevelment takes hours to achieve. But it looks beauteous great, tbh. —M.M.

Really? Hours? Goals, Mary. Goals. —G.W.

5:04 p.m. “CBS News, America’s newest spot to spot BS news” — big Nikki Glaser takes purpose adjacent to home. —M.M.

Yes, the CBS quality gag puts maine connected Team Nikki. —G.W.

5:00 p.m. Hello Mary! It’s clip again to hunker down successful beforehand of the surface and banter astir an awards show, successful this lawsuit the 2026 Golden Globes, a for-profit, firm currency drawback whose morals are adjacent worse than erstwhile we investigated the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. 5 years ago. Do I agelong for the bully aged days erstwhile the nutty HFPA took lavish junkets and made spectacularly weird awards choices? Eh. I’m not going to beryllium 1 of those radical who looks backmost fondly connected dubious things — like, say, the precedency of George W. Bush — and romanticizes them conscionable due to the fact that the contiguous time is truthful repellant. Besides … we’ve got a agelong nighttime up of us. In the words of the precocious large Marty DiBergi: Enough of my yakking. Let’s boogie! —G.W.

Glenn, my aged gathering and loan, awards amusement buddy! I got my fare Mountain Dew, I got my Kettle Corn-flavored Pop Corners and unsalted cashews (for protein) truthful bring connected that boogie! Sure, I’m torn betwixt admiration and despair that this ethically challenged awards amusement continues to thrive, but I’m choosing to spot this nighttime arsenic a motion that, contempt the lamentations of the doomsayers, Hollywood is live and good and blessed to spell done the rigors of the reddish carpet to (mostly) suffer a clump of awards. Because it’s an grant to beryllium nominated, amiright? And the information that astir 10 cardinal radical tuned successful for the past 2 shows (and millions much for the carved up clips connected societal media) proves that involvement successful movie and tv (also podcasts) remains high. Are you rooting for anyone successful peculiar (JessieBuckleyJessieBuckleyJessieBuckley)? —M.M.

You’ll beryllium blessed connected that front, Mary, arsenic Buckley is 1 of the evening’s — and season’s — surest things. Me, I’m hoping for a repetition of past twelvemonth erstwhile a Brazilian histrion won a prize, catapulting them to an Oscar nomination. Will Wagner Moura (“The Secret Agent”) travel the way of Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”)? We’ll soon see. —G.W.

More important, volition “Slow Horses” triumph a clump of well-deserved awards? —M.M.

Against “The Pitt”? Nah. —G.W.