What is it that people don’t like about the truth?
Did you see The Golden Globes this year? I love nothing more than grabbing a glass of vino and settling down on my cute corner sofa to watch the red carpet coverage of these award shows. I’ll be honest the actual ceremonies usually bore me stupid. But I kind of wish I’d watched the golden globes if I’d know it was going to be so funny.
This entire furore in the paper about Ricky Gervais and his “jokes” sounded great fun. There seems to be this big back lash at how he was insulting and “un-funny” but let’s face it, at the end of the day he was actually just telling the truth. Plus call me cynical but you don’t hire a comedian like Ricky Gervais and expect him to play it safe. It’s like asking Frankie Boyle to put on a children’s show and keep it clean – not likely to happen. Plus we’re all talking about it!!
Here are a few of his “jibes”
“It’s going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or, as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast.”
“It was a big year for 3-D movies. Toy Story, Despicable Me, Tron. It seems like everything this year was three-dimensional — except the characters in The Tourist…I feel bad about that joke. I’ll tell you why; I’m jumping on the bandwagon because I haven’t even seen The Tourist. Who has?”
“All that happened was that they were taken to see Cher in concert. How the hell is that a bribe? ‘Do you want to go see Cher?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because it’s not 1975!’” (On rumours that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association accepted bribes for nominations.)
“There were a lot of big films that didn’t get nominated this year – nothing for Sex and the City 2. I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that poster…Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza.”
“Also not nominated, I Love You Phillip Morris. Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. So the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then. What? My lawyers helped with the wording of that joke. They’re not here.”
“Our first presenter is beautiful, talented and Jewish, apparently. Mel Gibson told me that. He’s obsessed.”
“The creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is reportedly worth $7-billion. Heather Mills calls him the one that got away.”
“Please welcome Ashton Kutcher’s dad, Bruce Willis!”
I doubt he’ll be hosting a show in America any time soon!
