British comedian Ricky Gervais served as host of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards here in Hollywood, CA last night and during his opening monologue to kick off the show he expertly, brilliantly and unapologetically skewered as many celebs in the audience as possible with joke after joke after joke. He managed to get a few uncomfortable laughs from the audience but it was his Scientology joke that garnered the most groans. For me, Gervais made the Golden Globe Awards worth watching … and he had me in stitches the entire night. His opening monologue is an absolute must see.
This, my friends, is comedy. Gervais‘s monologue was so brilliant, IMHO, because it’s not the kind of thing we ever get to hear from awards show hosts … but they are the jokes that WE ALL make to one another as fans of celebrity and pop culture. Jokes are meant to be funny, Ricky Gervais‘s jokes were hilarious. Mission: Accomplished.
It remains to be seen if the Hollywood Powers that Be were really offended by Ricky‘s performance last night but I hope they can see the humor and laugh at themselves. I, for one, would love to see Ricky Gervais host every single awards show here in the US from now til the end of time. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if he ever gets a hosting gig like this every again.
So … what did y’all think of Ricky‘s jokes last night? Funny or much too much?
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Why is it ok that he made fun of some of the nominees and embarrass them in front of the world on there night any different then Kayne West pointing out the fact that Taylor Swift was the wrong choice at the VMAs?
He polarized the truth. These people do things to embarass themselves, and then get mad when it blows up in their faces and COMEDIANS make fun. Kayne West was stating his own OPINION, not a fact. The FACT was, people voted and Taylor Swift was the winner.
because they were not interrupted during their acceptance speeches and because when you hire ricky as a HOST you must expect him to say some things that you may not like. kanye was in the audience and ran up on stage and made an idiot of himself.
Harvey Weinstein actually told Ben Mulroney from eTalk (Canadian entertainment talk show) that Ricky Gervais is now “dead in this town”. Obviously his peers hated it, and the rest of us LOVED it!! These people make movies, they don’t cure cancer or solve real world problems! Nice to see their oversize egos take a hit every now and then!
Amen!!
I have never been a fan of these awards shows. I don’t care about the dresses that cost more than some people make in a year and I can’t watch them all congratulate each other about how amazing they all are so if I would’ve known Ricky Gervais was going to, like someone else said, deflate their egos and oversized sense of self-importance, I think I might have watched! Sure they are great talents but it is what it is: entertainment and nothing more. They aren’t THAT grand.
Oh Kyleigh you put my thoughts into words! “The make movies, they don’t cure cancer or solve real world problems.” That’s what I was trying to get at!
I loved it. He was fearless, it was a breath of fresh air. The only joke i didn’t take well was the one of RDJ, but Robert managed very well.
It was a fun night thanks to him but we know that he’s never going to present another award show LOL
LOVED IT!!! He’s my friggin’ HERO! I’m usually not one that’s for class warfare or anything, but my god people get a sense of humor about yourselves!
I thought it was really funny! Honestly, he’s just having a laugh…and the bit about Charlie Sheen was pretty factual so you can’t really get mad at that.
Dear Americans, please learn to laugh at your selfs, dont take everything so seriously!
and I totally agree with Trent Ricky was HILARIOUS and should defo be do it next year
HILARIOUS!!!
I love Ricky Gervais a little more after last night.
christian bale and the big bang theory dude have defended him.. right on, those are two top blokes!
weinstein needs to get over himself.
He just said all of the things everyone else was thinking but too afraid to say out loud. Brilliant!
HilFlarious! Not because the jokes were particularly clever (mostly obvious, some cheap) but because of the big UH-OH on celebrity faces. Even Tina Fey was all, “Tracy Jordan moment!” They dressed up for another ego orgy and got a Friars’ roast. Just what the audience wants and needs, but ain’t gonna happen again.