Best comedy and best actress for Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Waller-Bridge now has two Golden Globes to add to her crowded trophy cabinet.

The show was named best musical or comedy TV series, while she won the best actress gong in the same catgory.

Accepting the Golden Globe for the show, she made reference to the fact that  Barack Obama recently put Fleabag on his list of favourite shows, movies and music  of 2019

She said: 'I'd like to thank Obama for putting us on his list. As some of you may know, he's always been on mine. If you don't get that joke, please watch season 1 of Fleabag really, really quickly,.’

In that season, her character is shown masturbating to the then US President delivering a keynote speech.

And when she collected the award for best actress, Waller-Bridhe paid tribute to co-star Andrew Scott, who played the ‘hot priest’ in series 2.

She said: 'Thank you so much to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for this, it's really heavy and cool.

'This really comes down to Andrew Scott really because that man, there was a lot of talk about the chemistry between us in the show but he could have chemistry with a pebble and I'd loved being Andrew's pebble in this, thanks for bringing so much fire to this season.' 

In a press interview after the show, Waller-Bridge said she would be auctioning the Ralf & Russo suit  she wore at the ceremony to help victims of the  Australian bush fires.

Charlotte Moore, director of BBC Content said of Fleabag’s double victory: What an incredible night for the hugely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge and BBC Comedy's hit series Fleabag on the global stage at the Golden Globe

Elsewhere on the night, Ramy Youssef was named best actor in a TV comedy for his Hulu show, Ramy. 

Scottish actor Brian Cox won the best actor award in drama category for his role as  in HBO’s Succession, penned by Peep Show’s Jesse Armstrong, which won the best TV drama category.

While Olivia Colman scooped best actress for playing the Queen in The Crown on Netflix.

Published: 6 Jan 2020