Paid Members Egg Shen Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 dunno if anybody saw The Golden Globes last night, I didn't but i found this stuff online...Ricky Gervais hosted the event and basically pissed off everyone: Â Host Ricky Gervais may have turned off the audience members and critics at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, but viewers seemed turned on, watching the show in larger numbers than one year ago. Â The Golden Globes, an annual film and TV awards show in Hollywood, drew just under 17 million total viewers to network NBC, which was up slightly from 2010 when British comedian Gervais, who is known for his acerbic sense of humor, hosted for the first time, according to audience figures released on Monday. Â Last year's ceremony was up 14 percent from 2009's roughly 15 million viewers, and the upward trend shows the telecast is recovering somewhat from the 2008 Hollywood writers strike which reduced the Globes to a news conference. Â Still, this year's viewership of 16.99 million show is down from 2007, when some 20 million viewers tuned in to watch Hollywood's A-list stars parade up the red carpet in their finest gowns and tuxedos and, for the lucky few, accept awards for movies, TV shows, performances and music. Â Gervais' hosting duties on Sunday night brought some often harsh criticism from reviewers. During the show, the comedian took shots at Charlie Sheen's drinking and partying, Robert Downey, Jr.'s years-ago issues with drugs and alcohol, the critically panned movie "The Tourist" that was nominated for best comedy, and even the organizers of the show. Â His sense of humor on the ceremony's center stage was so caustic that Downey, Jr., remarked on stage that Sunday's ceremony was "unusually mean-spirited." Â Many critics seemed to agree. Los Angeles Times TV critic Mary McNamara wrote on Monday that "it quickly became clear that his material wasn't just falling flat, it was making many audience members and presenters uncomfortable and even angry." Â Washington Post reviewer Hank Stuever wrote, "Somehow Gervais has lost some of his ability to be funny about being true." Â here's a video of his opening speech: Â Â i know a lot of people on here hate Gervais and this probably fuels their fire to just have even more of a pop at him, but you can't deny that it took some serious suds to say some of that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 I'm amazed Gervais gets these super high-profile gigs in the first place. I think he's a funny guy, but his style of humour is lost on loads of people over here, let alone across the pond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Dammer Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 His gags last night wernt that controversial, some I dare say were even funny. Â It just shows how shit these awards ceremonies are when a comedian is headline news for telling jokes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bret Hart's Buddy Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I watched Science Standup and had to switch off after about 15 minutes. Loved all of his prior standups and Extras and The Office, but in Science, he was just basically slagging people off without any kind of wit or charm. He also started rubbing me up the wrong way in some of the later podcasts with Karl Pilkington. Pilkington is pure genius but Gervais has a real superiority complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I must admit i found myself laughing through most of them 5 minutes, better than the majority of his new DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 I thought it was hilarious, but I love Gervais and nearly everything he's done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Snake Plissken Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 I'm no fan of his, but some of that was downright hilarious. The Americans just take themselves way too seriously. The Scientology gag and the Hanks/Allen one was Gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Rob Lowe Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 It was unsubtle and nothing new, but parts were funny. Â They blanked out Gervais saying "jesus christ" in one of the clips, pretending to masturbate Hugh Heffner afterwards probably didnt go down well either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 he was shit but they were shitter for being at the Golden Globes in the first place  EDIT: The scientology gag was great  while were at it, here is a genuinely good comedian in Norm MacDonald dying on his arse but going down swinging and not giving a fuck at the ESPY's in 1998  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 It's not so much that the jokes are 'offensive', more that they're completely shit. Then again, it's Ricky Gervais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Miz Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Watched The Globes earlier. Gervais was on top form, the ceremony was dull though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalaxyV.2 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 The Gay scientology joke was a thing of great beauty, I think Alec Baldwin is still laughing about that. He didn't really lay into anyone, sure he slagged off the Tourist, but so has everyone. Â Gervais is a great host for this sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 The problem for Gervais is that it's Hollywood...you're insulting those idiots and their stupid beliefs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fox Piss Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 Could somebody please explain the scientology joke for me please im clueless. Â Gervais came on to present a award at the Emmy's last year and stole the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 17, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2011 Could somebody please explain the scientology joke for me please im clueless. Â Well, Tom Cruise is a Scientologist. And he's often alleged to be gay. The same goes for John Travolta. Â I know they say it's not funny if you have to explain it, but it wasn't in the first place, so it doesn't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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