Ricky Gervais told Jeffrey Epstein, 'Wild Hogs' and Leonardo DiCaprio jokes to the GoldenGIobes audience's shock, horror and amusement.
, which felt almost ridiculously brief, is that it will probably give fodder to both his biggest fans and biggest detractors.My gracious, some of Gervais' jokes were stale. Not even stale — calcified. Not even calcified — turned to freaking petrified wood.A joke about Meryl Streep doing aA joke about Joe Pesci's resemblance to Baby Yoda? Yes, that was vaguely amusing as a Twitter meme back in November.
Let's not forget that a solid minute of Gervais' monologue was spent plugging his Netflix comedy-type-thingYet roughly half of my Twitter feed seemed convinced that Gervais burned down the freaking Beverly Hills International Ballroom.But let's at least acknowledge that there was some edge to certain things he said, like following up a reference to hischaracter considering suicide with, "In the end, he obviously didn't kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein.
Loosely funny. Some discomfort in the room. Tom Hanks wasn't always amused. Sienna Miller seemed to be guffawing through the whole thing.Ouch. That might have hurt a bit, not that the camera knew exactly where to turn to find an executive who had shared time at a party with Epstein. Or maybe the director knew exactly where to turn and turned away. That seems much more likely. At the Golden Globes, it's OK for the jokes to hurt a little, but not too much.
It's like how when you make jokes about the heads of various networks being afraid of Ronan Farrow, that's not bad, but it's not nearly as sharp as it might be to say the word "Les Moonves" or to call out NBC's handling of the Matt Lauer situation. What Gervais did was what you do if you want Twitter to think you're being tough, but you want to at least leave open the possibility of a sixth hosting stint.
Much more toothy, and running very little risk of offending the HFPA, was Gervais' joke about the semi-hypocrisy ofand its principled stand against toxic work environments airing on Apple TV+, part of a company benefited to no small degree by sweatshop labor.
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