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Tina Fey: Why We’re Hosting The Globes Again

 

Tina Fey has revealed it was Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels who suggested she and Amy Poehler should sign on to host the Golden Globes for two more years. And she has given an insight into how she and Amy plan their remarks and jokes. “After the first time, Amy and I were saying, ‘Oh we had so much fun, would it be a bad idea to try to do it again?’ ” she said. “And Lorne said, ‘You should do it for two more years because when you do it the second time it won’t be up in the air as to whether you get invited back. Then you come back one more time as a good bye and then you are done.’ “I thought that was very good advice—he might know what he’s doing in show business.” She said she and Amy don’t start planning for the Globes until they see who the nominees are. “You can’t work on it too soon,” she said. “So we usually start a couple of weeks ahead of time when we rally all our friends to start writing jokes. The most time-consuming thing is to watch all the movies. We don’t get flown to junkets and stuff so we have to watch all the screeners. I thought last year was a particularly great fun year for movies and I can’t wait to see what presents itself this year as the big one.”