New York Post

Hosts Tina & Amy wimped out on Sony, Charlie & Cos

- KYLE SMITH

LOTS of big brass orbs were on display at last night’s Golden Globes, but Tina Fey and Amy Poehler showed the world that they have no cojones.

Caught up in a triple crisis, Hollywood had an op portunity to be as daring, socially onpoint and irreverent as it constantly assures us it is. Instead of putting the world to rights, though, the show detonated with all the force of someone popping open a nice can of Fresca.

One of Hollywood’s halfdozen major studios was crippled by hackers and forced to bury its big Christmas release because of terrorism from (perhaps) North Korea. A double Golden Globe winner and oncebelove­d TV star stands credibly accused of being a serial rapist. And just four days earlier, more than a dozen people died in an attack on comedy.

How did the Golden Globes respond to this cavalcade of dire news?

Hosts Fey and Poehler, instead of mercilessl­y satirizing North Korea, instead mocked one of the targets embarrasse­d in the Sony leak (Scott Rudin).

Then they sashayed directly up to Kim Jongun, looked him straight in the eye and said, “We got your back, bro.”

Fey and Poehler trashed the same thing the sawed off dictator didn’t like, Seth Rogen’s “The Interview.” Fey quoted North Korean criticism of “The Interview” as “absolutely intolerabl­e” and “a wanton act of terror” as a setup for saying, “That’s not even the worst review it got.”

About the massacre of their fellow satirists in Paris, Fey and Poehler said nothing at all.

And about Bill Cosby, who now appears likely to have enjoyed a decadeslon­g career as a drugger and rapist? They essayed their “black accents” and mocked Cos’ emphatic plosives. “I put the pills in the people!” Fey shouted.

If you’re going to make comedy out of a series of hideous crimes, be fearless and harsh.

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