The second in all probability was extra complicated than humorous for many of these watching the 83rd Golden Globes on Sunday evening.
However it probably drew some smiles from a specific set of sports activities followers. In spite of everything, if you understand, you understand.
As host Nikki Glaser welcomed the following presenters to the stage on the Beverly Hilton, she made an out-of-nowhere reference to an NBA staff from 5 many years in the past.
“Your subsequent presenters famously led the 1977 Portland Trail Blazers to an NBA championship,” Glaser mentioned. “Please welcome Chris Pine and Ana de Armas.”
Wait a second. Pine and de Armas are clearly actors, not skilled basketball gamers. Neither Pine, 45, nor de Armas, 37, have been even alive when the Blazers gained their lone NBA title.
No actual Blazers gamers, present or former, have been anyplace to be seen on Sunday. So, what was the joke and why was it included within the present?
Name it an Easter egg from the thoughts of well-known Blazers fan Ian Karmel.
“Responsible,” the previous Portland comic wrote on Bluesky when somebody accurately guessed that the joke will need to have come from him.
Karmel was among the many writers for the present as Glaser hosted it for the second yr in a row. And Karmel has not been shy about his Blazers fandom, even beforehand showing throughout broadcasts and postgame reveals.
Sunday’s Golden Globes present went on with out skipping a beat after Glaser’s Blazers shout-out. Pine and de Armas took the stage and introduced the nominees for greatest feminine actor in a movement image drama. For the file, Jessie Buckley took house the award for “Hamnet.”
