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Brutal Brad Pitt Joke Was Cut From Golden Globes Awards After F1 Nomination

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Updated 16:05 14 Jan 2026 GMTPublished 13:20 14 Jan 2026 GMT

Brutal Brad Pitt Joke Was Cut From Golden Globes Awards After F1 Nomination

The Hollywood legend recently starred in the popular F1 movie but was absent from the Golden Globes Awards.

Ben McCrum

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Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser has revealed that she decided to cut a brutal joke about Brad Pitt's role in the F1 movie from her monologue.

American comedian and actress Glaser hosted the 83rd Golden Globes awards as the ceremony took place on January 11 at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Several of the biggest actors in both television and film were in attendance at the ceremony, with Leonardo DiCaprio's 'One Battle After Another' and Netflix series 'Adolescence' among the big winners.

Glaser received praise for her fiery opening monologue at the event as she roasted many of the celebrities in the room and set the tone for the night.

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But there was one joke about Hollywood legend Pitt, and his involvement in the recent Formula One film, that didn't make the cut.

Adolescence won four awards at the Golden Globes. (Image: Frazer Harrison/WireImage)
Adolescence won four awards at the Golden Globes. (Image: Frazer Harrison/WireImage)

In the F1 film, Pitt starred as Sonny Hayes, a driver who amazingly returns to the Formula One grid after a 30-year break, with the film impressing fans and earning nominations in several major awards ceremonies.

However, despite the positive reaction to the movie, it was surprisingly absent for most of the awards categories, picking up nominations only in the cinematic and box office achievement and the best original score categories.

Perhaps the biggest surprise was that Pitt didn't receive a nomination for his performance as Hayes, and it forced awards host Glaser to remove a brutal joke aimed at the 62-year-old during her opening monologue.

“Brad Pitt is nominated for his role in ‘F1’ tonight. See, that’s what I love about Hollywood. When a man turns 60, he gets to play a racecar driver. Meanwhile, after 35, every role for a woman is a tired mom who hates her life," Glaser planned to say in her monologue.

Pitt decided not to attend the ceremony, but if he had, Glaser planned to add: "And Brad, you were so good I was almost convinced that you’ve driven yourself somewhere in the last 30 years.

"But Brad did a lot of his own driving in the movie. And Brad, I don’t want to embarrass you, but your blinker was on the whole time there.”

Pitt was the lead star in the F1 movie. (Image: Dave Benett/WireImage)
Pitt was the lead star in the F1 movie. (Image: Dave Benett/WireImage)

What other jokes was Nikki Glaser forced to cut from her Golden Globes monologue?

And Pitt wasn't the only one who Glaser decided not to mention during her opening monologue, as she later admitted that she had cut any jokes regarding politics in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good during a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“It’s not funny,” she said on The Howard Stern Show the day after the Golden Globes ceremony.

“I was going to come in at some point and say, ‘I’m hearing from the bar that we’re out of ice. And you know, we don’t really need ice. And actually, I hate ice.’ It just felt like, oh, even that’s just being too trivial," she continued.

"That’s what it felt like. This isn’t even that anymore. It’s hard to strike the right tone.”

Glaser later explained that she decided that even mentioning the name of President Donald Trump felt like it was too political.

“It was like, you just don’t say that guy’s name right now,” Glaser told Stern. “I just want to give it space.”

Featured Image Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage

Topics: Formula 1, Donald Trump

Ben McCrum
Ben McCrum

Ben is a sports journalist who specialises in football, Formula One and MMA. He has written for publications such as Manchester Evening News, WiganToday, Manchester World and beIN Sports. Throughout his career, he has interviewed top athletes including Gareth Southgate, Luke Littler, Tom Aspinall and Jenson Button.

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