By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, January 2013
In mid-January 2013, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler executed a substantial press-tour cycle ahead of their first co-hosting turn at the Golden Globes. The cycle included exclusive interviews with The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, plus a Wednesday-afternoon conference call.
Then
The 2013 Golden Globes were the first of what would become Fey and Poehler’s three-show hosting partnership for the awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association had brought them in after Ricky Gervais’s three-year run (2010-2012) had produced multiple controversies.
Both Fey and Poehler were at substantial career peaks in early 2013. Fey was winding down 30 Rock; Poehler was deep into Parks and Recreation’s fifth season.
The press-tour cycle was characteristic of the broader awards-host-promotional-cycle the 2010s had developed.
Richard Horgan’s FishbowlLA framing was warmly amused.
Now
The 2013 Golden Globes was the first of three Fey-and-Poehler co-hosting turns at the awards show (also 2014 and 2015). The partnership has continued to be cited as one of the more successful comedy-host pairings in modern awards-show history.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association went through substantial subsequent crisis cycles. The 2021 LA Times investigation into HFPA membership-and-ethics practices produced a substantial industry-wide reckoning; the 2022 Globes were not broadcast on network television.
Tina Fey has continued in film, television, and writing work across the years since 2013. Amy Poehler has continued similarly.
The Golden Globes itself returned to network television in 2024 under reorganized ownership. The 2013 Fey-and-Poehler era reads now as one of the more confidently-functioning moments of the broader American awards-show broadcast cycle.
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