Ricky Gervais Monologue @ Golden Globes Awards

Alterlifeson

bacchanalian said:

Yes
I think the Netflix marketing team wrote the speech.  The Golden Globes people checked if they can be sued.  Ricky performed the speech.

Hmm, I'm not sure. I remember when it was first announce that he mentioned he had only just found out himself and that he normally has a few more months to prepare. Plus he seemed to take a break from posting pictures of the After Life 2 production whilst all this was going on.

Sassafras

sev112 said:

Sassafras said:

This must be the first time in history anyone's taken a pop at Hollywood.
Never understood the appeal of Ricky Gervais. I find his smugness very off putting.

You know the “smugness” is an act ?  

It's an amazing act, he's never once dropped it.
Staying in character all your life is impressive.

beed84

He was just taking the piss. No harm done. 

Emp_Fab

https://youtu.be/_aoHa0cwvxA

joeyowen

Bloody love Jonathan Pie

He picks easy targets for sure, but does a good job of it

SNAKEBITE

Google some of Groucho Marx's speeches at awards, this is not a new thing.

Freebird

Oh no, is Jonathan Pie part of the joke too? It's really clever how they are including so many random people in the same script!

p90fool

Sassafras said:

sev112 said:

Sassafras said:

This must be the first time in history anyone's taken a pop at Hollywood.
Never understood the appeal of Ricky Gervais. I find his smugness very off putting.

You know the “smugness” is an act ?  

It's an amazing act, he's never once dropped it.
Staying in character all your life is impressive.

True enough. If someone acts like a prick all the time the supposition that it's just an act is irrelevant, he's still just a prick all the time.

Freebird

p90fool said:

Sassafras said:

sev112 said:

Sassafras said:

This must be the first time in history anyone's taken a pop at Hollywood.
Never understood the appeal of Ricky Gervais. I find his smugness very off putting.

You know the “smugness” is an act ?  

It's an amazing act, he's never once dropped it.
Staying in character all your life is impressive.

True enough. If someone acts like a prick all the time the supposition that it's just an act is irrelevant, he's still just a prick all the time.

I'd act like a prick 24/7 if I could get my hands on his zillions, just image all the guitars I could buy on here!

WiresDreamDisasters

Freebird said:

p90fool said:

Sassafras said:

sev112 said:

Sassafras said:

This must be the first time in history anyone's taken a pop at Hollywood.
Never understood the appeal of Ricky Gervais. I find his smugness very off putting.

You know the “smugness” is an act ?  

It's an amazing act, he's never once dropped it.
Staying in character all your life is impressive.

True enough. If someone acts like a prick all the time the supposition that it's just an act is irrelevant, he's still just a prick all the time.

I'd act like a prick 24/7 if I could get my hands on his zillions, just image all the guitars I could buy on here!

You could buy ALL the R8's and abuse ALL of the guitar shops!

impmann

All of Gervais's "humour" is based on bullying. Being nasty to folks, belittling them, putting them in awkward situations (at their expense) and each time he'll add in a "just saying" or "its just a joke" with the idea that its not meant with any malice. However, you can see that he was bullied himself when he was younger and he uses this humour as a defence mechanism. And such jokes are a very small leap away from the humour of the 1970s - observe the joke about James Cordan and "fat pussy", its not dissimilar to the sort of thing Bernard Manning would have delivered.

The smugness is not an act. He can't act. There's video proof of this.

Whether or not this is staged is irrelevant - its simply not 'funny'. 

I do hope he isn't "dragged back" for them next year... frankly I hope the talentless tosser sinks without a trace.

Freebird

impmann said:

All of Gervais's "humour" is based on bullying. Being nasty to folks, belittling them, putting them in awkward situations (at their expense) and each time he'll add in a "just saying" or "its just a joke" with the idea that its not meant with any malice. However, you can see that he was bullied himself when he was younger and he uses this humour as a defence mechanism. And such jokes are a very small leap away from the humour of the 1970s - observe the joke about James Cordan and "fat pussy", its not dissimilar to the sort of thing Bernard Manning would have delivered.

The smugness is not an act. He can't act. There's video proof of this.

Whether or not this is staged is irrelevant - its simply not 'funny'. 

I do hope he isn't "dragged back" for them next year... frankly I hope the talentless tosser sinks without a trace.

Haven't you ever been nasty to folks? Even just a little bit?  

skullfunkerry

impmann said:

All of Gervais's "humour" is based on bullying. Being nasty to folks, belittling them, putting them in awkward situations (at their expense) and each time he'll add in a "just saying" or "its just a joke" with the idea that its not meant with any malice. However, you can see that he was bullied himself when he was younger and he uses this humour as a defence mechanism. And such jokes are a very small leap away from the humour of the 1970s - observe the joke about James Cordan and "fat pussy", its not dissimilar to the sort of thing Bernard Manning would have delivered.

The smugness is not an act. He can't act. There's video proof of this.

Whether or not this is staged is irrelevant - its simply not 'funny'. 

I do hope he isn't "dragged back" for them next year... frankly I hope the talentless tosser sinks without a trace.

Not all of it. His standup routine about the meanings behind nursery rhymes is excellent: clever, and very funny

Also, in Extras most of the punchlines/mishaps were at his character's expense.

*other opinions are available

Balrog68

Can't stand the man, but applaud the sentiment of his speech, however scripted. 

WiresDreamDisasters

"They're just jokes but feel free to grass me up in yer little blog" - LOL

Blaendulais

impmann said:

All of Gervais's "humour" is based on bullying. Being nasty to folks, belittling them, putting them in awkward situations (at their expense) and each time he'll add in a "just saying" or "its just a joke" with the idea that its not meant with any malice. However, you can see that he was bullied himself when he was younger and he uses this humour as a defence mechanism. And such jokes are a very small leap away from the humour of the 1970s - observe the joke about James Cordan and "fat pussy", its not dissimilar to the sort of thing Bernard Manning would have delivered.

The smugness is not an act. He can't act. There's video proof of this.

Whether or not this is staged is irrelevant - its simply not 'funny'. 

I do hope he isn't "dragged back" for them next year... frankly I hope the talentless tosser sinks without a trace.

The Office, afterlife, extras.  Hmmm talentless.  He may not appeal to you but stating he's talentless is not true

Winny_Pooh

Freebird said:

p90fool said:

Sassafras said:

sev112 said:

Sassafras said:

This must be the first time in history anyone's taken a pop at Hollywood.
Never understood the appeal of Ricky Gervais. I find his smugness very off putting.

You know the “smugness” is an act ?  

It's an amazing act, he's never once dropped it.
Staying in character all your life is impressive.

True enough. If someone acts like a prick all the time the supposition that it's just an act is irrelevant, he's still just a prick all the time.

I'd act like a prick 24/7 if I could get my hands on his zillions, just image all the guitars I could buy on here!

You're not even in the top ten tossers on this forum. Fuck off

Winny_Pooh

thecolourbox

EricTheWeary said:

Modellista said:

bacchanalian said:

I can't believe anyone thinks it was anything other than a choreographed element of the entire show.

Tom Hanks was definitely in on it to provide some faux horrifed gurning.

Ricky is just as much in the pocket of the machine as any of his targets.  Reputed £15m for one Netflix special

Just to get this straight. You’re saying you think that they had a meeting beforehand where they told Gervais - “what we want this year is you saying the Catholic church is a paeophile ring, Martin Scorsese hangs around in kids playgrounds, Leonardo DiCaprio likes very young girls, that pretty much all of Hollywood is in on the sex pest thing, and they’re all vacuous morons who have no right to use their platform for any political purposes at all. That’ll go down well.”

Really?

The showbiz commentators I've heard say that any speech will have been agreed before hand, wether the content was written by Ricky or someone else. They will have also briefed anyone in the audience who is mentioned in it, they don't want Scorsese or Hanks,etc, walking out. 
I find it harder to believe that given the size of the operation they wouldn't know what Ricky was going to say. 

That's assuming he didn't give them a different script

EricTheWeary

thecolourbox said:

EricTheWeary said:

Modellista said:

bacchanalian said:

I can't believe anyone thinks it was anything other than a choreographed element of the entire show.

Tom Hanks was definitely in on it to provide some faux horrifed gurning.

Ricky is just as much in the pocket of the machine as any of his targets.  Reputed £15m for one Netflix special

Just to get this straight. You’re saying you think that they had a meeting beforehand where they told Gervais - “what we want this year is you saying the Catholic church is a paeophile ring, Martin Scorsese hangs around in kids playgrounds, Leonardo DiCaprio likes very young girls, that pretty much all of Hollywood is in on the sex pest thing, and they’re all vacuous morons who have no right to use their platform for any political purposes at all. That’ll go down well.”

Really?

The showbiz commentators I've heard say that any speech will have been agreed before hand, wether the content was written by Ricky or someone else. They will have also briefed anyone in the audience who is mentioned in it, they don't want Scorsese or Hanks,etc, walking out. 
I find it harder to believe that given the size of the operation they wouldn't know what Ricky was going to say. 

That's assuming he didn't give them a different script

I guess it’s possible but I think that’s giving him a lot of credit.