The pair’s sharpest skewerings often had to do with Hollywood’s double standards for men and women. Fey noted the praise Steve Carell has earned for the two hours of make-up he endured every day to transform himself into John du Pont in "Foxcatcher," then joked that it took her three hours on Sunday just to make herself presentable for the Globes gig. Poehler praised "Boyhood" for casting Patricia Arquette, then joked that the 12-years-in-the-making film proved that there are still roles for women over 40 as long as the actresses are hired when they’re under 40. Most pointedly, Fey targeted the HFPA’s lifetime achievement award for George Clooney, saying of his new bride, "Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person U.N. commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award."
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