Topics: Entertainment, Golden Globes, Michael B. Jordan, Nikki Glaser, Celebrity
Michael B. Jordan's mother was seemingly unimpressed by Nikki Glaser's NSFW quip at the Golden Globes on Sunday (January 11).
The 83rd annual Golden Globes was full of drama, including many borderline jokes made by host Glaser.
The 41-year-old comedian took aim at Leonardo DiCaprio and his history of dating younger women, as well as making a shocking joke about Jeffrey Epstein.
Glaser also turned her attention to Jordan during her opening monologue, where she discussed the actor playing twin characters Smoke and Stack in last year's horror, Sinners.
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The host jokingly said: "I can’t believe it, we got two Michael B. Jordans. When I saw that, I was like, Nikki B. Jerkin’, because that was awesome."
Many in the room saw the funny side to the gaffe, but it appeared as though Jordan's mother, Donna Jordan, did not find it amusing.
Instead, when the camera panned to her, she could be seen awkwardly taking a sip of her drink as her son chuckled.
Glaser immediately acknowledged the inappropriateness of her joke when she realized Donna was in attendance.
"I’m so sorry. That should’ve been a DM," she said.
The clip quickly went viral and the joke will surely go down as one of the most outrageous ever said at the Golden Globes.
Many fans took to X to share their thoughts on the moment, with one writing: "Somebody check on michael b jordan’s mom."
Another pointed out: "Her face."
Someone else said: "THIS IS THE FUNNIEST S**T IVE EVER HEARD."
Donna spoke with Entertainment Weekly on the red carpet prior to the event and expressed her love for her son.
"Just his commitment and his dedication and his persistence to his craft," she said of Jordan. "And the messages that he tries to share with everyone with the choices that he makes and the work that he does. I'm very proud of that."
Jordan was nominated for Best Actor for his role in the Ryan Coogler-directed film, however, he lost out on the award to The Secret Agent's Wagner Moura.
However, Sinners picked up two of the seven awards it was nominated for - Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson.
An awards show isn’t complete without a bit of drama and part of that comes from the jokes told by the hosts - here are some of the most controversial gags from the Golden Globes over the years…
Ricky Gervais - who has hosted the Golden Globes five times - brutally told the star-studded audience in 2020: “You could binge-watch the entire first season of After Life instead of watching this show.
“That’s a show about a man who wants to kill himself cause his wife dies of cancer and it’s still more fun than this.
“Spoiler alert, season two is on the way so, in the end, he obviously didn’t kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he’s your friend but I don’t care.”
While hosting the 2013 ceremony, Amy Poehler took aim at the filmmaker’s marriage to his third wife, Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for Zero Dark Thirty.
Referencing the movie’s controversial depiction of torture, Poehler said: “When it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron.”
Cameron recently addressed the ‘ignorant dig’ in an interview with The New York Times.
Unsurprisingly, Gervais makes the list once again, this time with his quip about James Corden and Judi Dench for their roles in Cats.
In 2020, he said: “The world got to see James Corden as a fat p*ssy. He was also in the movie Cats.
“No one saw that movie. And the reviews, shocking. I saw one that said, ‘This is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs’.
“But Dame Judi Dench defended the film, saying it was the film she was born to play because she loves nothing better than plonking herself down on the carpet, lifting her leg and licking her own m*nge. [Coughs] Furball. She’s old-school.”
2025 host Nikki Glaser made a controversial joke about disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, before he was sentenced to 50 months in prison on prostitution-related crimes.
While addressing Zendaya, Glaser said: “Challengers, girl? Oh my God! That movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card, I mean, seriously. I’m sorry, I’m upset too. The afterparty is not going to be as good this year, but we have to move on.
“I know a Stanley Tucci freak-off doesn’t have the same ring to it. No baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.”
During his 2024 opening monologue, comedian Jo Koy was accused of making a ‘sexist’ joke about one of the biggest films of the year.
“Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies,” he said in a true tumbleweed moment.
Barbie director Greta Gerwig later reacted to the divisive remark, saying: “Well, he's not wrong.”
It’s only fitting to end the list with another outrageous jibe from Gervais.
While speaking about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s famously long runtime, he poked fun at Leonardo DiCaprio’s reputation for dating younger women.
“Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere and by the end, his date was too old for him,” the comedian said in 2020 (he clearly took no prisoners that year), before adding: "Even Prince Andrew is like, ‘Come on Leo, mate. You’re nearly 50'."
