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Golden Globes Unfunny Host Draws Silence From A List Crowd With Nasty Whitney Houston Joke

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The Golden Globes host Jarrod Carmichael is drawing extreme criticism for his nasty joke about Whitney Houston tonight. He quipped that they wanted to thank the Beverly Hilton, “the hotel that killed Whitney Houston.” I doubt the Globes will be invited back to the hotel.

Carmichael has been a resounding dud but the winners tonight gave heartfelt speeches. Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Coolidge, and Michelle Yeoh were especially moving. Many of the winners, though, didn’t thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. And Cate Blanchett, winner of Best Actress in a Drama, didn’t bother to show up.

Ratings will be terrible, but that’s no surprise. But Carmichael’s flop of a monologue concerning the Globes’ racism problems didn’t do anyone any favors.

Full list of winners coming…

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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