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Ricky Gervais Opens Golden Globes By Telling Woke Hollywood To Skip The Lectures
Deadline ^ | January 5, 2020 | Greg Evans

Posted on 01/05/2020 5:50:25 PM PST by EdnaMode

Felicity Huffman, Cats, Joe Pesci, the Catholic Church, Judi Dench and James Corden got the Ricky Gervais treatment during the opening monologue of tonight’s Golden Globe Awards, but none took the brunt of the host’s jibes quite as sharply as Hollywood itself.

Casting the industry town as hypocritically woke – with a Jeffrey Epstein joke thrown in for good measure – the notoriously scathing British comic advised Golden Globe winners to skip the moralizing. Said Gervais, “Thank your agent and your God and…” The rest was bleeped, but he seemed to say something along the lines of “then get the [expletive] off the stage.”

“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” Gervais cautioned. “Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”

Apple TV’s woke The Morning Show, Gervais said, was “made by a company that runs sweat shops in China.”

Individual stars didn’t get through the opening monologue completely unscathed, if none were as skewered quite so efficiently as Gervais’ former punching bag Mel Gibson. Felicity Huffman, Gervais said, made the license plate on his car, Joe Pesci looks like Baby Yoda

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To: RummyChick

Thanks. Loved it! I think he gets what’s going on around here.


61 posted on 01/05/2020 6:42:45 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: RummyChick

Tom Hanks seemed perturbed, at least twice!


62 posted on 01/05/2020 6:42:57 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: CaptainK

Thank you. He was hilarious!


63 posted on 01/05/2020 6:46:37 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I watched his speech, found it well done and skewered people who need it now and then. I don’t know if I ever saw one of his bits before. He did very well. Thank you for posting it.


64 posted on 01/05/2020 6:49:39 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Blue Highway

It was funny to see the facial expressions - few seemed able to decide whether they should laugh or affect anger. I guess many were waiting for a guiding ‘cue’.


65 posted on 01/05/2020 6:49:46 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: EdnaMode

An ending we’d all get: After a short pause... “Oh, don’t look so shocked... This is just a parody.”


66 posted on 01/05/2020 6:52:40 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: RummyChick

He really really put them down. It was brilliant.


67 posted on 01/05/2020 6:54:15 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: EdnaMode

Very few of them had a sense of humor throughout. Martin Scorcese did though - when Gervaise said he was too short to ride the rides at an amusement park, he was mouthing, “It’s true. It’s true.”


68 posted on 01/05/2020 6:54:31 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: dljordan

To me: “I woke up four times last night to pee.”


69 posted on 01/05/2020 6:55:45 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: RummyChick

OMG!!! That was incredible!!! Looking at some of the p!ssed off faces in the crowd was great...if they only realized those weren’t jokes..


70 posted on 01/05/2020 6:57:46 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: EdnaMode

Joe Pesci is a funny guy.


71 posted on 01/05/2020 6:59:06 PM PST by Ken H
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To: EdnaMode

I just turned it on tv to take a peak, and I couldn’t take 8 seconds of Tom Hanks fake crying, cut shot to Meryl Streep pretending to be adoring, and I was out. I didn’t even register a single word he said, the phoniness of the whole scene overwhelmed me. Yikes.


72 posted on 01/05/2020 7:00:50 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: EdnaMode

I saw this reported in the Post, and while everything he said was pretty gross, it was very funny and right on target! Surprised he got away with it.


73 posted on 01/05/2020 7:00:57 PM PST by livius
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To: EdnaMode; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Gervais takes the piss out of these pompous, privileged, Stalinist Hollyweird snots.


74 posted on 01/05/2020 7:01:04 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: All

All about the sewer pipe ratings.


75 posted on 01/05/2020 7:06:24 PM PST by 80skid
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To: EdnaMode
Transcript here:

Golden Globes: Read Ricky Gervais' Scathing Opening Monologue

Best part:

"So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

So if you win, come up accept your little award, thank your agent, and your god and f**k off."

76 posted on 01/05/2020 7:07:41 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Rastus

It means you love making stir-fry in a concave metal dish


77 posted on 01/05/2020 7:07:45 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: All

Forget the fact, there is a very proclaimed bounty on the head of the President of the united States.

All the Commies in that room, be a good hit.


78 posted on 01/05/2020 7:08:43 PM PST by 80skid
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To: Phil DiBasquette

Ah, but which side...?


79 posted on 01/05/2020 7:12:11 PM PST by Texaspeptoman (Even cannibals... get fed up with people sometimes.)
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To: dp0622

It was epic. I don’t know who the guy is, but I thought it was funny when he kept saying to himself, “This is my last time, so I don’t care.”

Those Hollywood people are so full of themselves. They are so used to everyone fawning all over them, snapping pictures, asking them questions as if they have something worthwhile to say....sickening. I despise most of them. Nice to see someone not give a schiff about what they thought.


80 posted on 01/05/2020 7:13:57 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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