Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress Christine Lahti (1/18/98)

A memorable moment from the 55th Golden Globe Awards, aired on Sunday, January 18, 1998. Laura San Giacomo and Michael J. Fox present the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Drama. Nominated were Gillian Anderson ("The X-Files"), Kim Delaney ("NYPD Blue"), Roma Downey ("Touched by an Angel"), and Julianna Margulies ("ER"). Following the announcement that Christine Lahti had won the award for her work on "Chicago Hope," the actress was nowhere to be found--as she was in the bathroom! Entertaining efforts to stall the program ensued.

[@kszirovecz]

Only Robin Williams with no preparation and no hesitation can jump on stage during a major awards show and improv. The man was a gifted comedian.

[@melisagalvalizi6982]

he wasn't gifted he was a genius

[@bonusbaby801]

If this had happened today the orchestra would have played her off before she got to the stage. I miss the days when people were allowed to get through their thank yous without having to rush. This is an unfortunate sad reminder of what we lost in Robin Williams. I still can't wrap my mind around the concept that this man who gave me so much laughter was in that much emotional pain. RIP Robin.

[@Seek1878]

No one wants to hear an endless than you speech.

[@TwoWrights]

It’s been 10 years since we lost Robin Williams and I still miss him. He left a big hole in Hollywood celebrity culture that probably won’t ever be filled by another. Awards shows have suffered by not having someone like him there. A wildcard at any event, on our screens, and in our hearts forever.

[@tracieg6986]

This is my favorite awards show moment ever. Christine’s improv with the napkin is hilarious! Good for her for laughing it off.

[@darkshapedme]

It feels like everyone and everything was more natural those days - their reactions, humor, more genuine their likes or dislikes, and she handled this with such a grace and she was nervous but she wasn't faking. Feels like people were more free, genuine, real, less faking, kind of honest when expressing themselves.

[@eeayyp6540]

Even though this is still hilarious. It does make me a little sad to know Robin Williams is no longer with us.

[@richardcleveland6949]

At least Christine Lahti had a good sense of humor about the whole thing. People still have to go to the bathroom it can't be helped

[@Blueeyedsoul1986]

Luckily I haven't gone what she went though not yet anyways 🤭

[@007Julie]

I saw this live and it was one of the best award shows ever!

[@imranetic]

Robin jumped in and countered the awkwardness of the moment like a good man that he was.

[@cloudbullets]

I still remember this as a kid, I thought this was a fever dream

[@madpax14]

Shes so beautiful. I watch anything she plays in ❤

[@Blueeyedsoul1986]

I remember this i was 12 years old and its still funnnyyyy to this golden globes day 2021

[@lionelraoul]

I expect this to be the top moment on tomorrow nights 75th Anniversary Golden Globes special.

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Whenever Robin Williams made me laugh it also reminded me how much broken and sad he really was from inside 💔

[@ya__basic]

Robin Williams was a really good man!

[@EmmGee99]

A really good man and a LEGEND!

[@allengreene9954]

Rest In Peace Robin Williams😢😢😢😢🌹🌹🌹🌹 Ps Chicago Hope was a very good show👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿 Very underrated.

[@thoukisth]

she says I was in the bathroom AND Robin Williams shouts YOU HAD IT COMING!!!!! Unsurpassed

[@karabelles5142]

golden age of tv

[@JacobthePug]

Globes is more fun to watch than Oscars

[@community1949]

Wouldn't you know it the minute she gets up to go the bathroom!!!!!

[@atcihaydar]

Giacomo was delightfully beutiful in these times and this award truly means something for these people but the true award for an actor is what Robin Williams doing in this part. It doesn't matter if it is an improv or planned. Obviously not prepared or rehearsed and it is a hard thing to get those timings in a live one shot show and reactions, even with a truly tiring rehearsals and Robin Williams gets the Best part of being an actor just because he was capable of doing it juust right 👌

[@paulsolon6229]

Contrivance

[@ting6633]

do you have more clips from the show or the show itself? been trying to find it for so long

[@Slashtap]

What did Robin say in the other language?

[@electricblue1423]

Interesting time capsule. Christine is now in her 70s, Robin Williams has passed, Michael J. Fox is almost an invalid and most of those other actresses have been forgotten. I also note that The West Wing still wasn't even a pitch idea. Strange indeed.

[@MeyerD584]

I understand the sentiment but of the female actresses, one of them recently won several Emmys for The Good Wife in a row, the other is a big deal in New York and London on the stage, winning many awards and nominated for several for her work on The Crown. Kim Delaney has gone from smash Hit TV show to smash hit TV show, currently in Chicago Fire, a top ten show. Roma Downey, arguably the one working the least did partially retire to be with her family but is now active once again in her native Ireland and United Kingdom with several TV shows running at once. Michael J fox has tried very hard to explain to people he is not in fact an invalid. He's written several books on the subject and still appears regularly on TV when he's not experiencing a flare up.

[@Lommy9999]

Don't be so dark.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Forgotten? What rubbish, try googling before you assume that your ignorance is universal

[@_artorical_]

‘Tommy Schlamme’

[@fabiomoysesbm]

very funny!!

[@meowal1192]

she did was her hands 👍

[@syriecaestar7914]

1998 I don't think Lewinsky even broke yet Operation Enduring Fox

[@emillion4470]

OK, I'll ask the question, - what everybody's dying to know for 20 years... Was it #1 or #2? Inquiring minds need to know...

[@st.dominic4169]

Back when GG was fun to watch without really trying. Nowadays they need to hire host just to save their asses.

[@macmikemo]

Must have been a really long shit 👏👏

[@wuwillis719]

She knew her category was coming up next.. a little time management.. she had to rail that last bit of yayo before her speech.

[@Pingmeister1985]

Actually, they reshuffled the categories at the last minute which is why she thought she had time. Now Renee Zellweger repeating this bathroom bit in a later year when she won for Nurse Betty is another story...

[@paulsolon6229]

Ugh

[@jojostarbuck1295]

Weird how Robin mentions clones