LAST night, the real tension wasn’t just between the nominated stars at the Golden Globes, it was between the golden diva dames standing outside on the red carpet, Joan Rivers and Star Jones – and their backup broads.
In Rivers’ corner, her cut-man Melissa Rivers, and in Jones’ corner, covering her back, comedienne Kathy Griffin.
When Joan and Melissa jumped to TV Guide Channel last year for an estimated $7 million very big ones, E! threw them off the Emmys right off the bat, and replaced them with Star Jones.
Jones’ debut at the Emmys wasn’t memorable. There was just too much talk about Jones by Jones.
This time out, however, Star had a comedienne, Kathy Griffin (in the role of Joan Rivers), co-carpeting, and she helped a lot.
While Jones knows her stuff, and is a genuine TV fan, she’s not funny, and let’s face it, when you’re commenting on-camera from the low end of the food chain in terms of award shows, which is what the Golden Globes is considered by many, you better have a sense of humor.
The trial last night was getting to watch the dueling divas duke it out on different channels at the same time. Through the crazy miracle of PIP (picture in a picture) I got to watch both E! And TV Guide Channel at once.
I’d asked Rivers last month whether she was going to get her old primo spot back on the red carpet now that she was on the TV Guide Channel, and she didn’t know. Now we all do. No.
Clearly, Star was first in line on the carpet (even though Rivers staked out her territory about four days ago), because she got almost all of the stars first.
Neither diva rose to the red carpet without some embarrassing off-color moments.
In place of our beloved fashion faux pas, last night it was bad-taste commentary:
Horrible: Star Jones on forgetting Denis Leary’s last name, “My brain just went into a brain fart.” Yeeew
Terrible: Rivers smelling the red carpet and exclaiming that it smelled of Tara Reid and Paris Hilton. Yuck.
Miserable: Kathy Griffin asking Michael Chiklis and his wife if they ever called up hookers from the hotel. Whew.
Awful: William H. Macy saying: “Better to be a double nominee than a double amputee.” Sheesh.
Final scores: Star Jones improved greatly from the Emmys – though not enough to make me give up Rivers – but Rivers needs to grab the stars first.
Trust me, for viewers with PIP, even one Jim Carrey is too many Jim Carreys.
