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" Either Tina Fey or Amy Poehler would probably be a great Golden Globes host on her own, but what will they be like together? Fey and Poehler have very different comedy styles that have made them deservedly beloved for their NBC shows: Fey as the put-together boss with a disastrous social life, Poehler as the goofy idiot savant who somehow manages in spite of herself. At the Globes, they&amp;#039;ll no doubt be played against each other in much the same way as they were in Baby Mama, for aw-shucks odd-couple chuckles. That&amp;#039;s fine on, say, Modern Family, but it doesn&amp;#039;t make for great awards hosting. At least we know exactly what we&amp;#039;ll be getting from Seth MacFarlane at the Oscars: smarmy jabs at celebrities and hopefully himself. Hosting duos tend to give audiences just a whiff of two separately popular personalities who like each other enough to go onstage together without ever gelling into anything more. Before the train wreck that was James Franco and Anne Hathaway, can you think of any recent awards-host pairing that was memorable? Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin (2009 Oscars)? Jimmy Fallon and Kirsten Dunst (2001 MTV VMAs)? They were genial enough, a little boring. Fey and Poehler are huge talents who will, as more than one person has put it, add a certain &amp;quot;warmth&amp;quot; to the Golden Globes. But what they need more than warmth is funny. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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