Poehler’s Good Hang with Amy Poehler took home the inaugural Golden Globe for Best Podcast at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, a category introduced to recognise the growing influence of podcasting in entertainment.
The show beat out several popular contenders, including Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, SmartLess, The Mel Robbins Podcast and Up First from NPR.
During a fiery segment on her digital talk show, The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly blasted the podcast category itself and Poehler’s win despite admitting she did not watch the ceremony.
She suggested that the Golden Globes gave the award to “one of their own,” implying that Poehler’s industry status played a role in the outcome. “Amy Poehler won. That’s no shock, they gave it to one of their own,” Kelly said sarcastically, before criticising the content of the show.
Kelly also zeroed in on a specific interview from Poehler’s podcast, in which Poehler incorrectly referenced actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s filmography. “Amy Poehler thought Gwyneth Paltrow was in Cold Mountain, which she wasn’t,” Kelly said, calling the moment “embarrassing and disrespectful,” and arguing it undermined the credibility of the podcast as an award-winning program.
In addition to her critique of Poehler’s podcast, Kelly revisited her own relationship with the category, claiming her show had been in contention for the award but that she withdrew because she objected to the process.
She said she did not want to participate in behind-the-scenes campaigning or promotional efforts allegedly expected of nominees, describing that expectation as “a nightmare” and expressing disdain for awards-show culture.
Kelly’s comments were part of a broader tirade that also took aim at other aspects of the Golden Globes, including certain jokes made during the ceremony and the acceptance speeches of other figures.
Poehler, meanwhile, addressed the significance of her win during her acceptance speech, expressing respect for the medium and her fellow nominees, and framing the show as an effort to bring “love and laughter” into the world.
Poehler started her career in improvisational theatre at Chicago’s Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, and with the Upright Citizens Brigade in 1995. The group moved to New York City in 1996, where their act became a half-hour sketch-comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Along with other members of the comedy group, Poehler is a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. In 2001, Poehler joined the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live as a cast member, where she also served as a Weekend Update co-anchor starting from 2004 to 2008. She went on to produce and star as Leslie Knope in the sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009-2015) for which she won a Golden Globe Award.
She frequently collaborated with Tina Fey on SNL and later acted with her in the feature films Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Sisters (2015), and Wine Country (2019). Together they co-hosted the Golden Globe Awards four times in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2021, as well as SNL, the latter of which earned them the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award.