Posted on 01/07/2020 3:45:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Hollywood might want to start listening to Ricky Gervais – it seems like a lot of Americans are.
The British comedian made himself an enemy of the movie moguls but endeared himself to millions of Americans Sunday night when he used his platform hosting the Golden Globes to lecture the glitterati in front of him on what viewers didn’t want to hear from them.
“If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech,” Gervais said on the ceremony aired by NBC. “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.”
Those words and others from Gervais’ monologue didn’t make Gervais popular to the crowd inside the Beverly Hilton, but television viewers around the country no doubt appreciated it.
As numbers on social media Tuesday showed, Gervais’ speech was still a hit with millions of viewers in the hours and days after the ceremony ended.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
There is a reason why actors use to travel around the country and be forced to camp outside of town. They were seen like carnival folk. Things have not changed.
I liked it!
Avoid going to movies.
Anyone heard if producers wrote that script for Gervais or approved it ahead of time?
I’ve been wondering all along if this was an attempt to goose the ratings.
But at least he did give it to Hollywood. We'll always have that.
Loved the look on Keith Urban’s face.
It’s kind of ironic that a hard core leftist like Gervais would give a speech that so many conservatives agree with. It just goes to show that the political spectrum isn’t as simple as the left/right scale that we’re led to believe. There are some areas where a real liberal overlaps with libertarian thought. However, most of our liberals in the U.S. aren’t really liberals, they’re totalitarian socialists calling themselves liberals.
“ At NBCNews.com itself, a writer declared that “perhaps the worst ‘joke’ was his judgmental rant claiming actors shouldn’t make political acceptance speeches.”
Funny, to the vast majority of the viewers, both in real time Sunday night and in recordings since, that line was probably the best, head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest, makes-me-wanna-shout line of the whole Golden Globes ceremony — and could apply to every other entertainment awards show that has ever been and ever will be.”
Again , it shows just how out of touch the press is.
Hanks also
Hes a dip shit
Yep. Everyone was expecting a roast.
I think it was actually pretty clever. The twitter feed started talking about how bad Gervais was dishing it out to Hollywood celebs so people started tuning in to see it live.
At the end of the day, it's all show business.
The article alluded to it.
How did he get away with what he said? They must have been squirming, especially De Niro. LOL
I suspect his “aw shuks” mr nice guy is a bunch of bs.
Not to mention his wife. Looked like someone had to explain the Felicity Huffman joke to her. Or maybe had to explain who Felicity Huffman is. I’m not even 100% sure who she is.
“Anyone heard if producers wrote that script for Gervais or approved it ahead of time?”
I highly doubt either.
People appreciate hearing the truth instead of hearing the usual leftist horseshit.
Good for Gervais and it was quite hilarious.
Funny, to the vast majority of the viewers, both in real time Sunday night and in recordings since, that line was probably the best, head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest, makes-me-wanna-shout line of the whole Golden Globes ceremony — and could apply to every other entertainment awards show that has ever been and ever will be.”
Again , it shows just how out of touch the press is.
Hollywood believes that it's their job to educate and lead us unsophisticated rubes in flyover country instead of merely providing the entertainment we pay them for. To them we're like children that just haven't realized yet what's good for us and need to be constantly lectured until it eventually sinks in.
The mainstream media today is more like hollywood than real news, they play to the lowest common denominator and provide constant opinion pieces masquerading as news. These awards shows are just another vessel that the MSM believes should be used to reinforce, once again, how much we rubes need see the light and listen to our betters.
Mass media has given the carnies much bigger bank accounts.
Is that what that was, a “look?”
Hard to tell really, that guy’s had more plastic surgery than Nancy Pelosi, and it doesn’t look as if anyone planned on him being seen from the side because it’s just too strange.
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