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Ricky Gervais: Golden Globes opening monologue for the ages (1 Viewer)

Bozeman Bruiser said:
Vimeo link, entire 7 minutes

Safe to say he will be blacklisted now.

From hitting them on their friendship with Epstein to their use of brown slaves to make their products (Apple, Amazon) to their irrelevant political views and false sense of importance to their washed up dead industry.....

The reactions are priceless, you can see the guilt dripping from their faces.

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This is the fifth time he's done the Globes.  He crushes the room every time (and is hysterical).

 
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It always amazes me how Hollywood pays stars megabucks while extras are lucky to get paid.  Huge wage disparities are ok.  

 
jon_mx said:
It always amazes me how Hollywood pays stars megabucks while extras are lucky to get paid.  Huge wage disparities are ok.  
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Trying to change the subject, huh? That's cool. Of course, may have wanted to pick a different argument to go with, since extras are basically entry level work, and obviously won't get paid millions of dollars starting out, because that's not how it works. Meanwhile, Trump is still trying to start a war.

 
Kal El said:
Trying to change the subject, huh? That's cool. Of course, may have wanted to pick a different argument to go with, since extras are basically entry level work, and obviously won't get paid millions of dollars starting out, because that's not how it works. Meanwhile, Trump is still trying to start a war.
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This is a thread about a comic criticizing Hollywood elite, so I am unsure how pointing out more hypocrisy from Hollywood elite is changing the subject at all.  Meanwhile you bring up Trump and Iraq into this when there are 50 other threads on those topics.  Seems kinds of trollish. 

 
jon_mx said:
This is a thread about a comic criticizing Hollywood elite, so I am unsure how pointing out more hypocrisy from Hollywood elite is changing the subject at all.  Meanwhile you bring up Trump and Iraq into this when there are 50 other threads on those topics.  Seems kinds of trollish. 
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How is pointing out that acting, much like just about every other career field currently on the planet by the way, follows a pay scale, trolling? FWIW, I don't care much for Ricky Gervais's humor anyway, to say nothing of how way too many people treat actors, but your argument seems to be a strange one to stick to. As for the Trump comment, it's a political forum. Where else should I stick such a comment(and let's try to keep it clean)?

 
Dudes. If someone brings up an irrelevant post, ignore it and keep on keeping on. Don't go tagging the owner for that is just more of what he isn't looking for. I'd like to apologize in advance for even responding to this. 

 
I remember him with roasting stuff in years past. But this was a different level, right? His jokes ranked.

I mean Joe Pesci as Yoda or Marin Scorcese short stuff is just mean and whatever. But that's normal roasting stuff.

But with Tim Cook sitting there to say:

Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a super drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. You say you’re woke, but the companies you work for, it’s unbelievable—Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you’d call your agent.
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I know the spin from Washington Post and such is "nobody cared" but I hardly ever hear much at all about these shows except from my friends who are super into it but last night, I heard a LOT about it. 

 
Joe Bryant said:
I know the spin from Washington Post and such is "nobody cared" but I hardly ever hear much at all about these shows except from my friends who are super into it but last night, I heard a LOT about it. 
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I think he hit the industry-wide hypocrisy harder last night, instead of just individuals, but IMO some of the echo you're hearing is just a sign of the times.  Look at the OP -- this has been going on since 2011, but it got everyone's attention in a bigger way last night because the nation is in a fight for who we're going to be going forward and Hollywood is almost universally on one side of that fight.

 
jon_mx said:
It always amazes me how Hollywood pays stars megabucks while extras are lucky to get paid.  Huge wage disparities are ok.  
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It always amazes me how Fortune 500 companies pay their CEOs megabucks while average employees are lucky to get a living wage. Huge wage disparities are ok.

 
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Dinsy Ejotuz said:
I think he hit the industry-wide hypocrisy harder last night, instead of just individuals, but IMO some of the echo you're hearing is just a sign of the times.  Look at the OP -- this has been going on since 2011, but it got everyone's attention in a bigger way last night because the nation is in a fight for who we're going to be going forward and Hollywood is almost universally on one side of that fight.
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Thanks. I think you're right.

There's another very different issue at play here too I think. And this one isn't partisan at all. It's that people dislike feeling "lectured". We see it here. I made a comment recently about what i thought folks would be best served doing and there was quick pushback not appreciating the "lecturing". I get it. 

So when people see a movie star doing this, they push back if they feel they're on the "other" side. I get it.

There's also I think some of the "elite" angle at play.

The other thing in the mix I think is the "stay in your lane" angle. We see that some in sports. Some sports personalities are fully on board with the "not sticking to sports" thing and some people love that. Some people don't. I think there's some of that in play with entertainment people too.

It's an interesting blend. 

This one did feel quite a bit different with Gervais last night and it's interesting. 

 
Joe Bryant said:
I don't know what folks were expecting. But that seemed scorched earth to me. That was way more than the normal roasting I was expecting. It was enough to make the Tom Hanks face this year's first big meme.
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Most of it seemed normal fare for Gervais (Epstein for example) but I agree the Apple thing seemed scorched earth and didn’t seem like he was joking

 
In Gervais' defense, he did say that this is his last time hosting, and that he doesn't care anymore.

 
Joe Bryant said:
I don't know what folks were expecting. But that seemed scorched earth to me. That was way more than the normal roasting I was expecting. It was enough to make the Tom Hanks face this year's first big meme.
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I agree it did feel that way watching it. But that's who Gervais is. He basically pioneered the genre of "cringe comedy" on The Office, and he announced at the beginning of his monologue exactly what he was going to do. Also, there's a long history on American TV of bringing in British people to give us the bluntness we wouldn't tolerate from our fellow Americans (Simon Cowell, that woman from "The Weakest Link", etc.) Maybe there were some people who were genuinely offended, but if so, they haven't been paying attention.

Personally, I reacted to it like I would a particularly difficult figure-skating or gymnastics move. Just really impressed that he managed to pull it off.

 
Maude said:
In Gervais' defense, he did say that this is his last time hosting, and that he doesn't care anymore.
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And then he joked that he hadn't cared the previous times, either.

It would not surprise me at all to seem him back next year. Again, the HFPA got exactly what they paid for.

 
AAABatteries said:
Most of it seemed normal fare for Gervais (Epstein for example) but I agree the Apple thing seemed scorched earth and didn’t seem like he was joking
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I don`t think he was joking.  Companies like Apple, Nike put on a socially aware face yet they have dirty little secrets they try to keep buried.  I get it that many companies do the same, just own it. Hollywood, TV and films has been one of the most corrupt, sexist, racist, industries on the planet and Ricky calls them out for what they are.

 
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Joe Bryant said:
I don't know what folks were expecting. But that seemed scorched earth to me. That was way more than the normal roasting I was expecting. It was enough to make the Tom Hanks face this year's first big meme.
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Yes, that look on Hank's face was priceless.

 
jon_mx said:
This is a thread about a comic criticizing Hollywood elite, so I am unsure how pointing out more hypocrisy from Hollywood elite is changing the subject at all.  Meanwhile you bring up Trump and Iraq into this when there are 50 other threads on those topics.  Seems kinds of trollish. 
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How is it hypocritical to pay the stars more than people pulled off the street to stand in the background?

 
Joe Bryant said:
I don't know what folks were expecting. But that seemed scorched earth to me. That was way more than the normal roasting I was expecting. It was enough to make the Tom Hanks face this year's first big meme.
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It seemed like what Gervais does taken up a notch because he really doesn't care. He also started it by telling everyone to not get bent out of shape because he is a comedian telling jokes.

 
His big rip was on corporate America and simply pointing out that the corporations supported by Hollywood elite are just as bad, if not worse, than everyone else.  It’s 100% true and they all know it.  A good reminder not to be a hypocrite in acceptance speeches though.  The rest was typical Gervais.  

The whole monologue was absolutely hilarious.

 
sho nuff said:
It seemed like what Gervais does taken up a notch because he really doesn't care. He also started it by telling everyone to not get bent out of shape because he is a comedian telling jokes.
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Ricky was very funny, but the jokes were actually about real life and that is why there were so funny.

 
Summer Wheat said:
Are you talking about Greta?  Greta is 17.  The jokes he made was not about her but about at 17 he said she has a higher education than most of the people in the room.
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I assumed it was a shot at her lecturing the world on climate change as well as insulting the people in the room.

 
Gervais' whole shtick is sarcastic, mean, being an #######. Have people really not seen this stuff? He's a master at it.

People are looking way to into it, he's just doing bits.

 
I have a Facebook friend who last night posted that Patricia Arquette needs to #### because she's paid to act and no one gives a s*** about her opinion, but less than a week ago posted a Kid Rock meme talking about his support for Trump and how bad liberals are for the country.  And no, he doesn't not think he's a hypocritical hack. 

 
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I feel like there's an undercurrent among many of the posts from conservatives on this thread assuming that liberals feel some kind of tribal loyalty to Hollywood elites. Speaking as a liberal who lives in a purple/red state far away from California, I can assure you that I love seeing them get skewered just as much as any Trump supporter would. Some of what they do is ridiculous (clueless actors opining on political issues) and some of it is genuinely appalling (all the Weinstein stuff), but they deserve (most) of the criticism they get, and I loved seeing Gervais lay the smackdown.

 
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