At the Golden Globes, Ali Wong won the ceremony’s second-ever award for Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, paying tribute in her speech to her Bay Area roots.
“I come from San Francisco and that’s where I started doing stand-up, and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for all the stage time that I got there, and all the practice I got to become a stand-up comedian,” she said.
Wong went on to thank Molly Schminke from the SF Punch Line comedy club, as well as her best friend Mia, saying in closing, “Thank you so much for all your love and support throughout the years. This means a lot. Thank you so much.”
Wong was nominated for her Netflix special, Single Lady. The Globe is her second in short succession on the heels of a win for her lead role in the first season of Netflix’s hit anthology series Beef. Other comics she beat out tonight included Nikki Glaser (Someday You’ll Die), who hosted the ceremony, as well as Seth Meyers (Dad Man Walking), Ramy Youssef (More Feelings), Jamie Foxx (What Had Happened Was), and Adam Sandler (Love You).
The win was the latest in this category for Netflix, which last year saw Ricky Gervais take home the inaugural award for his special Armageddon. Between the hours of Wong, Foxx, and Sandler, they this time around repped half of the nominated specials, going toe to toe with HBO, which had the other three.
Recently directing the first hour-long special of comedian Frankie Quiñones — ironically, for Hulu — Wong took her career to a new level with the first season of Netflix’s cultural phenomenon Beef, in which she starred opposite Steven Yeun, becoming the first Asian woman to win the Lead Actress Emmy while garnering a Globe and other accolades. Recently, she’s also exec produced and starred in Netflix’s animated series Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld.
