- - Megyn Kelly lashes out at Amy Poehler's 'embarrassing' Golden Globes win, calls Wanda Sykes 'racist' in Hollywood tirade

Joey NolfiJanuary 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM

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Amy Poehler at the Golden Globes; Megyn Kelly; Wanda Sykes at the Golden GlobesKey Points -

Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly went on a tirade against the Golden Globes.

Kelly derided Wanda Sykes for making what she felt was a "racist" joke on stage.

The former Fox News host also slammed Amy Poehler's Best Podcast-winning show as "embarrassing."

Despite admitting that she didn't watch the 2026 Golden Globes, conservative commentator Megyn Kelly still launched a nearly eight-minute tirade about one of Hollywood's biggest nights on her self-titled digital talk show.

First on the 55-year-old's trigger list for the evening was what she called "nonsense" displayed on pins worn by several attendees, including "actors like Mark Ruffalo" who "showed up wearing a Be Good pin that's an homage to Renee Good" — the Minnesota mother who was shot and killed last week by an ICE agent.

Kelly then set her sights on Wanda Sykes, who nearly stole the show with jokes she made Sunday night as she presented the award for Best Stand-Up Comedy on Television.

According to Kelly, Sykes "made it all about herself" when Sykes joked on stage that there would be "some people pissed off that a queer Black woman is up here doing the job of two mediocre white guys."

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Amy Poehler winning at the 2026 Golden Globes

Inadvertently fulfilling Sykes' prophecy, Kelly said, "You're pathetic, Wanda Sykes," before criticizing her for being "disrespectful" when she accepted the award on behalf of eventual winner Ricky Gervais and dedicated it to "God and the trans community" after Gervais' past transphobic jokes.

"So disrespectful. How dare you?" Kelly said of the moment, before calling for the Globes to ban Sykes from ever presenting again at the show that Kelly herself admitted to not watching.

Then, Kelly turned her attention toward the Golden Globes' new Best Podcast category, for which she made the eligibility shortlist — which was automatically compiled by listener and audience data — late last year.

"I, among other podcasts, were nominated," Kelly said, though the show wasn't officially nominated, and instead only advanced on the aforementioned shortlist. Still, Kelly maintained that "we pulled our name from consideration" after she alleged that she was asked to pay a fee and engage in promotional tactics.

Kelly alleged, "They also wanted me to go to Hollywood and do interviews with Golden Globes members behind the scenes to woo them into voting for me. Which, I said at the time, I'd rather put a bullet in my brain. F--- no. There was zero chance I was doing any of that. So, we pulled our show from consideration."

Finally, Kelly's rant trained on the category's eventual winner, Amy Poehler, whose celebrity-focused Good Hang podcast won the inaugural award after Poehler hosted the Golden Globes multiple times in the past.

"Amy Poehler won. That's no shock, right? They gave it to one of their own. Tracks. It's because she has a really insightful podcast," Kelly said sarcastically, before slamming a recent moment on Poehler's show that saw her slip up and ask guest Gwyneth Paltrow about being in the 2003 film Cold Mountain, despite Paltrow not having a role in the production.

"Maybe she won because of her insightful interviews — the preparation, perhaps," Kelly said. "She didn't show Gwyneth Paltrow the respect of actually understanding what her body of work is."

Kelly called the show "embarrassing and disrespectful," and summed up her thoughts by speculating, "That's what wins you — yay — the award for Best Podcast!"

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for the Golden Globes, Poehler, Sykes, and Ruffalo for comment.

Kelly's Golden Globes rant follows a string of criticisms the conservative personality has lobbed in recent weeks.

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Wanda Sykes on stage at the 2026 Golden Globes

Just as Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser did on stage during Sunday's live broadcast on CBS, Kelly has criticized the network's recent editorial decisions amid new CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil's takeover of the iconic post.

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Kelly specifically singled out a promotional clip starring Dokoupil, which saw him cry on camera when asked by a local CBS News Miami reporter about his childhood in Florida.

"There's no crying in evening news," Kelly said, later mocking Dokoupil as she asked, "The sobbing? The repeated voice quivering? The inability to recover? What is that?"

Watch Kelly's latest rant about the Golden Globes in the video above.

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