Overly high expectations? No such thing! Amy Poehler and Tina Fey killed it with their monologue and didn't stop until Argo's literal 11th-hour win.

Enjoy a sampling of their best lines here, then click over for Keith Staskiewicz's extended chronicle of their seemingly endless stream of laughs:

Amy: ''That's what makes tonight so special — only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people of television.''
Tina: ''Ricky Gervais could not be here tonight because, uh, he is no longer technically in show business.''
Amy: ''Kathryn Bigelow's nominated tonight. I haven't really been following the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty, but when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron.''
Tina: ''Anne Hathaway, you gave a stunning performance in Les Misérables. I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were on stage with James Franco at the Oscars.
Tina: ''Quentin Tarantino is here — the star of all my sexual nightmares...''
Amy: ''Meryl Streep is not here. She has the flu, and I hear she's amazing in it.''
Tina: ''Congratulations, Lena. I'm glad we got you through middle school.''
Tina: ''You know what, Taylor Swift. You stay away from Michael J. Fox's son.''

Could these ladies start a new Globes hosting dynasty? As they say, I dreamed a dream...