Megyn Kelly Blasts Amy Poehler’s Golden Globe Win After Claiming She Withdrew From Podcast Category

Megyn Kelly doesn’t think Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast deserved to win a Golden Globe.

On Sunday, January 11, Poehler, 54, took home the first Golden Globe Award for Best Podcast — beating out her ex-husband Will Arnett’s Smartless, Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, The Mel Robbins Podcast, and NPR’s Up First — and on the Monday, January 12 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, the conservative commentator, 55, criticized the comedian’s big win.

“Amy Poehler won. That’s no shock. They gave it to one of their own. Yeah, tracks. And it’s because she really has a really, really insightful podcast, which you really feel enriched after watching,” Kelly said sarcastically. “I mean, I’ve never watched it, but this is what I hear, and when I watch the clips, I thought, ‘My God, what am I missing?’”

The former Fox News host then pulled up a clip from when Poehler interviewed Gwyneth Paltrow on Good Hang earlier this month, and they both discussed liking to go to restaurants early for dinner.

“They’re so relatable. They have busy lives,” Kelly mocked. “They get tired earlier, just like you, stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, just like you. Riveting, right?”

“Well, maybe she won because of her insightful interviews — no, wait, that wasn’t it, the preparation she does, perhaps,” Kelly continued. “Amy Poehler thought Gwyneth Paltrow was in Cold Mountain, which she wasn’t.”

A clip from the same interview was then played, in which Poehler confused Paltrow with Nicole Kidman, thinking she was in the 2003 film Cold Mountain.

“They played it off like it was hilarious,” Kelly remarked. “But the truth is, she didn’t show Gwyneth Paltrow the respect of actually understanding what her body of work is, recent body of work, for them to discuss. So that’s embarrassing and disrespectful, and that’s what wins you, yay, the award for best podcast.”

In the description for Good Hang, it reads, “This podcast is not about trying to make you better or giving advice. Amy just wants to have a good time.”

As for why her own podcast wasn’t nominated, Kelly revealed last month on The Megyn Kelly Show that she had her producers “withdraw our name from consideration,” opting not to fill out the necessary form, and noting she “had zero interest in their stupid awards.”

“If you want to actually be considered, you have to go talk to the Golden Globes people, some voters out there who will determine whether you actually get the nomination, then, of course, whether you win,” Kelly shared. “So you have to go out there and do a little dog-and-pony show.”

“It was no mystery to us that we would be not actually nominated because we told them thanks but no thanks,” she added.