After last year’s utter catastrophe of a Golden Globes opening—stale, crass, practically booed-at jokes by host Jo Koy —what a wonderful bit of whiplash it was to watch this year’s host, Nikki Glaser, right the ship and then some at the top of Sunday night’s broadcast.

People who aren't celebrities love to see celebrities taken down.” Alas, Glaser explained, “the set that people in Middle America want me to do is not the set I can do” because a comic who couldn’t also win over the stars would sink herself by failing to get laughs and claps in the room.