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 tonights Golden Globe Awards, but none took the brunt of the hosts 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.
Youre in no position to lecture the public about anything, Gervais cautioned. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
Apple TVs woke The Morning Show, Gervais said, was made by a company that runs sweat shops in China.
Individual stars didnt 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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Thanks. Loved it! I think he gets what’s going on around here.
Tom Hanks seemed perturbed, at least twice!
Thank you. He was hilarious!
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.
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’.
An ending wed all get: After a short pause... Oh, dont look so shocked... This is just a parody.
He really really put them down. It was brilliant.
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.”
To me: “I woke up four times last night to pee.”
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..
Joe Pesci is a funny guy.
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.
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.
Gervais takes the piss out of these pompous, privileged, Stalinist Hollyweird snots.
All about the sewer pipe ratings.
Golden Globes: Read Ricky Gervais' Scathing Opening Monologue
Best part:
"So if you do win an award tonight, dont use it as a platform to make a political speech. Youre 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."
It means you love making stir-fry in a concave metal dish
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.
Ah, but which side...?
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.
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