The Golden Globes Proved Kristen Wiig Is the MVP of Awards Shows

The banter between presenters at awards shows is, more often than not, awkward and terrible — unless one of those presenters is Kristen Wiig. At last night’s Golden Globes, Wiig and her co-presenter, Steve Carell, brought a moment of genuine hilarity to the teleprompter-dominated proceedings, swapping tragic “memories” of the first animated films they ever saw as kids. (Watch it above.)

That bit was just the latest in Wiig’s series of semi-improvised awards-show presentations, which are invariably funnier and livelier than the rest of the proceedings. At the 2013 Golden Globes, she and Will Ferrell presented Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, and made up off-the-cuff (and wildly inaccurate) descriptions of the actresses’ performances, based on the film titles. Watch it below — it’s still one of the best and most irreverent awards-show gags ever.

Then in 2015, she presented Best Screenplay with The Skeleton Twins co-star Bill Hader, riffing on “famous lines” from classic films (and cracking herself up with her own terrible Robert De Niro impression).

Wiig has also brought her awards-presenter genius to the SAG Awards, introducing a Martin Scorsese-themed drinking game with her Bridesmaids co-stars in 2012 and doing a mock-profound commentary on the importance of laughter with Jon Hamm in 2015.

All of these bits were followed by a flurry of online comments about how Wiig and her co-presenter should host the next ceremony. But looking at all these clips again, it’s obvious that Wiig is the MVP here: the one whose fearless, goofy humor is the perfect antidote to stilted awards-show banter. Here’s hoping she presents all the awards from now on.

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