Seth Meyers has a good idea of what it means to kill as host of the Golden Globe Awards. Each time Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the show, from 2013 to 2015, Meyers was part of a pit crew of writers who huddled backstage, writing jokes and bits on the fly.
He is now calling in favours from writer friends as he prepares for his first outing as Globes emcee on Jan 7. His time in the trenches with Fey and Poehler made one thing clear: The night will rise or fall on the strength of the show’s opening minutes.“If the monologue goes well, then there’s a real looseness to the rest of the night,” Meyers says.
