Everyone from Ben Affleck to Elizabeth Taylor has consumed at the ceremony, where the free-flowing drinks have enabled a storied history of slurring presenters, wild dancing and partiers carried out the door.

Said Sandra Bullock of the 2009 Globes: “Probably the best thing about the long, long show was the free drinks.”

Since the awards show’s beginnings in 1944 at such star-studded nightclubs as Ciro’s and the Cocoanut Grove inside Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel, booze has had everything to do with the Golden Globes. In 1958, the first year the awards were televised, members of the HFPA were so vanilla that Rat Pack-ers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. — whiskey and smokes in hand — (sloppily) commandeered the stage to present the honors. Thus the modern celebrity host was born.