GoldenGlobes Host Ricky Gervais: Hollywood in No Position to Lecture About Anything. You Know Nothing About the Real World.
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais skewered Hollywood during his opening monologue of the annual award show on Sunday, cracking jokes about virtue signaling celebrities, Apple sweatshops, and (their “friend”) Jeffrey Epstein.
“You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg,” Gervais told the A-list crowd at the top of the show.
“So, if you win, come up, accept your little award tonight, come up, accept it, thank your agent and your God, and fuck off. No one cares about your views on politics or culture.”
Gervais saved his most stinging barb for Apple, which entered the entertainment business last year with the debut of Apple TV+. Apple CEO Tim Cook was in attendance during Sunday’s ceremony.
Gervais started by complimenting Apple’s The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, but soon switched into attack mode.
“A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing made by a company the at runs sweatshops in China,” the actor-comedian said.
“If ISIS started a streaming service, you all would be calling your agents.
.@rickygervais just lit the room on fire at the @goldenglobes…
@realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump @Apple @Disney @amazon pic.twitter.com/4gmIY3dq4k— Manny Alicandro (@Manny_Alicandro) January 6, 2020
The joke started with a reference to Gervais’ Netflix series After Life, in which he plays a depressed man who avoids committing suicide..
“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,” Gervais said.
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