EvilRocketeer
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Mr bean is funnier!!!!
Ricky Gervais and the Golden Globes...
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defstartrooper
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So is this a movie and television award or a who can be nicest award ? :lol
EvilRocketeer
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PhoenixTrooper
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Gervais has a sublime wit that tends to evade some folks. They just like a different flavour of comedy. All good, to each their own and all that.
Personally I found his verbal feint and riposte to be refreshingly brutal and well overdue.
Then again I got no time for 'celebrity'.
Then again, 'celebrity' these days seems to be drunken, insipid, vacuous trolls who flash there privates and make sex tapes. Yeah, then they'll be famous. Woohoo! Who needs self respect?
How about Dave Chapelle for next year?
Personally I found his verbal feint and riposte to be refreshingly brutal and well overdue.
Then again I got no time for 'celebrity'.
Then again, 'celebrity' these days seems to be drunken, insipid, vacuous trolls who flash there privates and make sex tapes. Yeah, then they'll be famous. Woohoo! Who needs self respect?
How about Dave Chapelle for next year?
Seconded. Morris is a deity.
Qui-Gonzalez
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I had heard last night that one condition Gervais gave to host the show was that the HFPA could not pre-screen his jokes. Now he is saying even if he is asked back, he will not return.
Larry Young
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Seems like quitting a job you've been fired from.
EvilRocketeer
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Seems like quitting a job you've been fired from.
sounds like he pulled a Megan Fox
Larry Young
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I loved that right after, she was photographed wearing a Voltron shirt.
Qui-Gonzalez
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I don't really know, Lar. It seems fishy to me that you would hire a comedian like Gervais and NOT want to screen his jokes.
Larry Young
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Who can say? I do agree that it does sound a little manufactured-reality.
vaderdarth
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Gervais is hilarious and brutal in his jibes...........that's his standup style. The GG knew precisely what he'd do before they signed him on. If you can't take being roasted, don't show up to the barbeque!!!! LOL. There was a similar time at another award ceremony where the tone seemed quite heated between Gervais and Carrell. The entire crowd thought those two were seriously about to brawl and it was just part of the show the whole time. Gervais was being relentless then as well. Hilarious stuff. If you become too cynical to laugh at yourself, time to pick a new career.
Qui-Gonzalez
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Gervais is an actor...albeit a one dimensional one.
I haven't watched any of the awards shows in years. Now I really wish that I had. The clips I have seen on YouTube were damn funny. Even his opening jokes about preferring to be at home wanking were pretty funny.
Of what I have seen so far, the highlight is his joke about "having a few beers" and "liking booze as much as the next man, unless the next man is Mel Gibson!" Funny.
EDIT: Looks like the controversy is manufactured (other than the few celebs who were actually offended):
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b221039_should_ricky_gervais_have_been_fired.html
Of what I have seen so far, the highlight is his joke about "having a few beers" and "liking booze as much as the next man, unless the next man is Mel Gibson!" Funny.
EDIT: Looks like the controversy is manufactured (other than the few celebs who were actually offended):
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b221039_should_ricky_gervais_have_been_fired.html
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Carson Dyle
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The folks who hired Gervais knew exactly what they were getting, and the stars RG poked fun at were given plenty of heads-up.
When it comes to protecting their own Hollywood is more control freakish than the Department of Defense. This sort of "spontaneous" roasting and shocked indignation is all planned out in advance, and everyone is in on the joke (everyone but the audience, which is kind of the point).
Somewhere Andy Kaufman is watching all this and laughing his ass off.
When it comes to protecting their own Hollywood is more control freakish than the Department of Defense. This sort of "spontaneous" roasting and shocked indignation is all planned out in advance, and everyone is in on the joke (everyone but the audience, which is kind of the point).
Somewhere Andy Kaufman is watching all this and laughing his ass off.
Carson Dyle
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The Office and Extras are two of the most influential and ground-breaking comedy series ever produced. Not bad for a "one-dimensional" actor.
Gervais is a smart, self-depricating, in-your-face humorist who's second to none when it comes to poking fun at pretentious, hypocritical, self-serious gasbags. Naturally his style of humor is going to rub some people the wrong way. Hell, that's part of the fun.
Angelus Lupus
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Ricky Gervais has never been funny and has never made me laugh. He's a self-absorbed, smug, arrogant, git, and I have no idea why America has fallen in love with him.
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