During the three-hour ceremony, the 49-year-old comedian insulted just about everyone in the film industry.On Hollywood: ‘It’s an honour to be here in a room full of what I consider to be the most important people on the planet. Actors. They’re just better than ordinary people, aren’t they?’
On Golden Globes' President: "Eva Longoria has the daunting task of introducing Berk, the association's president. 'That's nothing, I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in."
On Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp for their film The Tourist: "Seems like everything this year was three-dimensional. Except the characters in The Tourist. I tell you what, I’m jumping on the bandwagon, because I haven’t even seen The Tourist. Who has?’
On Cher "No one has wanted to go to a Cher concert since 1975."
On Charlie Sheen: "It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking, or, as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast.'
On Angelina Jolie: "You can be a little child, a little Asian child, with no possessions, no money – but you see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you think, “Mummy!”’
On Sex And The City 2 cast: "The movie should have won the special effects award for ‘the team that airbrushed that poster. Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza.'
On Heather Mills: "Heather Mills must be thinking, that's the one that got away" referring to Mark Zuckerberg's $7billion fortunate.
And so on and so forth. Some people in Hollywood aren't happy about some of the things he said. In fact, some of the actors' agents have complained to Golden Globes organizers. The organisers aren't happy either.
The Golden Globes president lashed out at Ricky, saying: "We loved the show. It was a lot of fun and obviously has a lot of people talking. When you hire a comedian like Ricky Gervais, one expects in your face, sometimes outrageous material. Certainly, in this case, he pushed the envelope and occasionally went too far. The HFPA would never condone some of his personal remarks. Overall, however, the show was among the best we’ve ever had and we were pleased.”
Ricky couldn't care less. "This year, I went about right. If anyone was offended, then I don't care," Gervais told TVGuide.com.
Ricky Gervais's opening monologue...
So what do you think, did he go too far?
The jokes are always written for the hosts so the actors/actresses understand it. Guess they wont be too offended.BTW its Hollwood, I'm sure the stars have heard worse jokes about themselves.
ReplyDeleteLove it or Hate it.....I LOVED EVERY BIT OF RICKY'S COMMENTS!!!!.....the truth sometimes hurt!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI loved it.
ReplyDeleteReal comedians can be cruel.
If they wanted a psycophant as a host, they should have invited one of their bland actor to host the ceremony.
This was refreshing - sometimes these award shows can be sooooo boring.
I don't give a damn so far my darling Linda Ikeji is not the target of his dry jokes.
ReplyDeleteIt was all an act. Totally funny though!
ReplyDeleteIt was all an act. Totally funny though!
ReplyDeleteOhh please!! Anyone who is upset should get over themselves. Everything he said had some truth in it, if not completely true :P
ReplyDeleteThe Jim carrey joke was actually thinking a shot at Tom Cruise. As in "the opp of a famous scientologist" rumors have it that Tom is gay pretending to be hetro.
ReplyDeletethis guy is just out of this world, the best joke had to be the walking dead hefner one...totally cracked up...d SATC 2 reference was just crazy....LMAO
ReplyDeleteI SAY PREACH RICKY GERVAIS, PREACH! They want someone to come there and kiss their behind, tell them how wonderful they all are, well they should keep paying their stylists, hair dressers, make up artists, agents, personal assistants, managers, publicist, lawyers,accountants, boyfriends/girlfriends/wives/husbands and in some cases parents because they are the people who do that on a constant basis. The man was paid to make the show interesting and entertaining. I think he succeeded, LOL.
ReplyDeleteBefore they hired him, didn't they watch comedy routine and his show, The Office (the british version)? Make them go siddon, all those folks making apologies for him are the same people laughing their heads off and agreeing in the privacy of their home in the company of their trusted friends/family members. The only person I would say he should have stayed away from roasting is Robert Downey, jr. because I think he's paid his dues, got his act together and has come back to carry on as one of the best actors in Hollywood UNLIKE the juvenile Charlie Sheen! This is why the say the way of the Lord is a mystery because I don't get (1)how he's still alive with the amount of substance abuse he's put himself through and (2) making the money that he makes, TWO MILLION AN EPISODE AKA TWO MILLION DOLLARS A WEEK when someone other person would probably be fired by now and when there are much more talented people still pounding the pavement and can't get a leg into the business.
on the scientoloyst thiing he was refering to john trevolta, a lot of people believe that guy is still in the closet.
ReplyDeleteAnyway i dont think he went far atall, i hate watching award shows were the host is just kisng ass, it gets boring.
And wat was up wit angelina joli, she was all over brad pitt,twas just a little too much for me, we know say na ur guy.
na wa oo linda...our own dakore egbuson got hitched last saturday and i thought u will be d first to bring it here.i guess u were too obsessed with the hollywood na wa 4 u.
ReplyDeleteJust doing his job & good at it!...ahahhaaha!
ReplyDeleteLMAO!!!! I had tears in my eyes!!!!
ReplyDeleteRicky Gervais is NOT funny. The man only got a break and access to Hollywood through his connection with Jonathan Ross. Jonathan Ross was the same person that connected Russell Brand with his friends in Hollywood.
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Seems like he will never be asked to host the golden globes ever again....He wasn't all that funny for hollywood. He sure gave it to dem celebrities!
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ReplyDeleteFrom CCLuv: Some people find Conan O'Brien to be funny and I'd rather watch water boil than watch him. Ricky Gervais' humor will wash over someone who doesn't understand that British, dry, wry wit or sarcasm. It doesn't matter who introduced him to Hollywood, after all it is a town of who you know, he's made the best of it. He is getting paid a MINT for "The Office" in New York, he's created various versions of the same show in other countries so there is something to be said for initiative on the man's part meanwhile all Russell Brand's been able to accomplish is to get married to Katy Perry who had kept him off drugs, alcohol and groupie sex and saddle us with that goddawful film "Get Him To The Greeks!"
@ Anonymous 6.28pm: Maybe Linda don tire wit "we are getting married tomorrow", "no, we are getting married next week"...maybe Linda is waiting for the ink to dry on the marriage certificate LOL.
LOL... loved every bit!
ReplyDeletethey hired him the previous year, the shudda thot, 2 i noticed a lot of them laughing till it got to them, loved it,
ReplyDeleteITS ALL A BLOODY ACT from the angry producers to the angry actors. they i knew that it was staged and they got much higher ratings than ever before.
ReplyDeleteits like the same thing that happened to Russell Brand in the VMAs to the extent that Katy Perry said she'd rather kiss a frog than him but we all know the rest of that story.
nobody wants to watch an award without music no matter how prestigious it is so the best thing to do is to create ruckus which would lead to people talking and would lead to higher ratings/television coverage/magazine reviews and people wanting to tune in next year for the award show. so its a comeback strategy for the golden globes and since most Americans are too chicken to do it, they always use a Brit.
ITS ALL A BLOODY ACT from the angry producers to the angry actors. they i knew that it was staged and they got much higher ratings than ever before.
ReplyDeleteits like the same thing that happened to Russell Brand in the VMAs to the extent that Katy Perry said she'd rather kiss a frog than him but we all know the rest of that story.
nobody wants to watch an award without music no matter how prestigious it is so the best thing to do is to create ruckus which would lead to people talking and would lead to higher ratings/television coverage/magazine reviews and people wanting to tune in next year for the award show. so its a comeback strategy for the golden globes and since most Americans are too chicken to do it, they always use a Brit.
love love love it :)
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