And the winner is ... stuck in traffic.

That’s why Prince wasn’t on hand to accept his Golden Globe for best original movie song, “The Song of the Heart” from “Happy Feet”.

Presenter Justin Timberlake>joked about the Purple One’s absence, impersonating the diminutive singer by bending his knees and offering a silent mock thank you. When Prince finally arrived, he offered his own silent gesture of gratitude when Hugh Gra$>, from the stage, called on him to take a bow. Wearing a gold suit and a sheepish grin, Prince stood up, put his hands together as if in prayer, and took his bow.

Sacha Baron Coh<$>sidelined his Borat persona when it came time to collect his Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical for his role as the hapless Kazakh journalist in “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”. The transition back to himself, he said, was a bit of an accident.

“I woke up one morning and I was quite hung over, and I accidentally shaved my moustache off. I realised I had no alternative,” he said, seemingly serious, backstage at the ceremony.

Cohen said the real thanks for his award belongs to his fiancee, actress Isla Fisher: “She agreed to sleep with Borat for ten months.”

“Grey’s Anatomy” s Isaiah Washington, accompanied by his wife, shared a secret on the Golden Globes red carpet.

“I love gay. I wanted to be gay,” he said. “Please let me be gay.”

In October, Washington apologised for an on-set incident involving co-stars Patrick Demy <$>and TR Kht <$>during which Washington allegedly used a homophobic slur. Knight said last year he is gay.

Eddie Murphy won the Golden Globe for his turn as sought-after singer-cer James (Thunder) Early <$>in “Dreamgirls”.

But Murphy said his recording career “is pretty much dead” and that dancing on film was “the scariest thing”. “I can jump around and dance if I’m trying to be funny,” he said. “I’m not much of a mover, so jumping around and dancing was kind of scary.”

Being injured and on crutches didn’t spare California Governor Arnold Schwarzgger <$>from the jests of several celebrities at the Golden Globes.

But the actor-politician, who recently broke his leg skiing, had the last word — literally. “Thank you for watching, and don’t forget next year: We’ll be back!”