Ricky Gervais Golden Globes Monologue

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omgggg he GOES THERE. It's so funny.

[Ryusei 61,110]

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[Teal Ambition 47,805]

this was me during the entire monologue last night. He roasted every single person in that room 

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1 minute ago, Ryusei said:

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If you feel like reading I found a transcript:

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Hello and welcome to the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel here in Los Angeles. I'm Ricky Gervais, thank you.

You'll be pleased to know this is the last time I'm hosting these awards, so I don't care anymore. I'm joking. I never did. I'm joking, I never did. NBC clearly don't care either — fifth time. I mean, Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars for some offensive tweets — hello?

Lucky for me, the Hollywood Foreign Press can barely speak English and they've no idea what Twitter is, so I got offered this gig by fax. Let's go out with a bang, let's have a laugh at your expense. Remember, they're just jokes. We're all gonna die soon and there's no sequel, so remember that.

But you all look lovely all dolled up. You came here in your limos. I came here in a limo tonight and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman. No, shush. It's her daughter I feel sorry for. OK? That must be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to her. And her dad was in Wild Hogs.

Lots of big celebrities here tonight. Legends. Icons. This table alone — Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro … Baby Yoda. Oh, that's Joe Pesci, sorry. I love you man. Don't have me whacked. But tonight isn't just about the people in front of the camera. In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world. People from every background. They all have one thing in common: They're all terrified of Ronan Farrow. He's coming for ya. Talking of all you perverts, it was a big year for pedophile movies. Surviving R. Kelly, Leaving Neverland, Two Popes. Shut up. Shut up. I don't care. I don't care.

Many talented people of color were snubbed in major categories. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that. Hollywood Foreign Press are all very racist. Fifth time. So. We were going to do an In Memoriam this year, but when I saw the list of people who died, it wasn't diverse enough. No, it was mostly white people and I thought, nah, not on my watch. Maybe next year. Let's see what happens.

No one cares about movies anymore. No one goes to cinema, no one really watches network TV. Everyone is watching Netflix. This show should just be me coming out, going, "Well done Netflix. You win everything. Good night." But no, we got to drag it out for three hours. You could binge-watch the entire first season of Afterlife instead of watching this show. That's a show about a man who wants to kill himself 'cause his wife dies of cancer and it's still more fun than this. Spoiler alert, season two is on the way so in the end he obviously didn't kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein. Shut up. I know he's your friend but I don't care.

Seriously, most films are awful. Lazy. Remakes, sequels. I've heard a rumor there might be a sequel to Sophie's Choice. I mean, that would just be Meryl just going, "Well, it's gotta be this one then." All the best actors have jumped to Netflix, HBO. And the actors who just do Hollywood movies now do fantasy-adventure nonsense. They wear masks and capes and really tight costumes. Their job isn't acting anymore. It's going to the gym twice a day and taking steroids, really. Have we got an award for most ripped junky? No point, we'd know who'd win that.

Martin Scorsese made the news for his controversial comments about the Marvel franchise. He said they're not real cinema and they remind him about theme parks. I agree. Although I don't know what he's doing hanging around theme parks. He's not big enough to go on the rides. He's tiny. The Irishman was amazing. It was amazing. It was great. Long, but amazing. It wasn't the only epic movie. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, nearly three hours long. Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere and by the end his date was too old for him. Even Prince Andrew was like, "Come on, Leo, mate.You're nearly 50-something."

The world got to see James Corden as a fat ***. He was also in the movie Cats. No one saw that movie. And the reviews, shocking. I saw one that said, "This is the worst thing to happen to cats since dogs." But Dame Judi Dench defended the film saying it was the film she was born to play because she loves nothing better than plunking herself down on the carpet, lifting her leg and licking her ass. (Coughs.) Hairball. She's old-school.

It's the last time, who cares? Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. Well, you say you're woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?

So if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're 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 **** off, OK? It's already three hours long. Right, let's do the first award.

 

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1 hour ago, Teal Ambition said:

this was me during the entire monologue last night. He roasted every single person in that room 

riiiight lmfao I was shook!! It was so good and necessary. Tom Hanks tho lmao like wtf..  his reaction was weird.

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3 minutes ago, Ryusei said:

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[Pennywise 36,079]

In my experience, people who are like "don't bring politics into this" are usually the ones on the opressors' side but go off, sis. 

Nice of him to find time from making transphobic jokes to write this 

[Jill 30,354]

I don't quite agree with this style of comedy. I guess you can defend it claiming to be anti-PC or something, but some parts where just very unnecessarily mean, like the Greta Thunberg joke. It served no purpose except for saying that she isn't that qualified to do what she's doing, which I think is the same as saying only scientists can  campaign on climate change-related issures, when in reality is a problem that affects us all.

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3 minutes ago, littlefreakster said:

In my experience, people who are like "don't bring politics into this" are usually the ones on the opressors' side but go off, sis. 

Nice of him to find time from making transphobic jokes to write this 

Yeah I'm on the fence about this because I love it that he basically exposed all those hypocrite capitalist liberals to dirt but at the same time I'm seeing Trump supporters use this to their favour. 

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3 minutes ago, littlefreakster said:

In my experience, people who are like "don't bring politics into this" are usually the ones on the opressors' side but go off, sis. 

Nice of him to find time from making transphobic jokes to write this 

I like that you ignored his whole point about those speaking out are most often tied to bigger corporations/entities which disregard human rights in foreign countries but go off, sis. I don't agree with "don't bring politics into this" but there are obvious hypocrites. 

[Dominic 11,922]

Accept your award, thank your agent, thank your God and **** off 🤣 

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

10 minutes ago, weed said:

riiiight lmfao I was shook!! It was so good and necessary. Tom Hanks tho lmao like wtf.. then I read the comments and apparently he's been to Epstein's island before  i'm like no not Tom Hanks 

And when he said “Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg” 

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1 minute ago, Teal Ambition said:

And when he said “Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg” 

I first thought of Greta Gerwig and I was like wtf does that mean? but then I remembered Thunberg and I cackled 

[Andy McQueen 4,484]

Brilliant!

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5 minutes ago, weed said:

I like that you ignored his whole point about those speaking out are most often tied to bigger corporations/entities which disregard human rights in foreign countries but go off, sis. I don't agree with "don't bring politics into this" but there are obvious hypocrites. 

yup, I should have included that in my comment, as I too agree with that, but seeing/hearing the words "no politics" makes me see red

I agree with that because even the ones who are like "save the turtles" want to sell you something in the end, and capitalism is an endless hellscape. 

But I still find this man disingenuous . As soon as he got the politics bit out, I was like "oh shut the f**k up".