You might think bringing a parent along to an awards ceremony would be something of a gamble, but it really isn't.
As Ben Affleck, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and Sienna Miller prove in the video above, parents may occasionally be embarrassing companions -- but their presence always makes for great chat show anecdotes.
It's difficult to pick a favourite from the batch above, but if pressed we'd go for Ben Affleck's camera-happy mother.
