Ricky Gervais

gmisk · 06-01-2020 01:55PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Those pair aren't even close. I can guarantee you the 2 of them didn't write half the jokes they came up with.
Ricky must be doing something right....5 times hosting it now.

I find them much better but hey each to their own. They have great chemistry, and still get in some pretty cutting gags.
I am pretty sure they have been asked to host it again....but declined they did 3 years in a row.
Longevity isn't always a sign of quality imo
I find him funny too it's just a pretty obvious roast style hosting gig.

B.A._Baracus · 06-01-2020 01:55PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Those pair aren't even close. I can guarantee you the 2 of them didn't write half the jokes they came up with.
Ricky must be doing something right....5 times hosting it now.

True.
If the powers that be behind the event took issue with what he was saying he would not be invited back. Am sure his antics improve ratings. Gonna have to check this out now myself after reading about it.

LineOfBeauty · 06-01-2020 01:55PM

Not sure how uncomfortable anyone really was. Maybe the Epstein thing was a bit close to home for some, but the rest of the lines were predictable and the targets were obvious. You know what you're getting with Gervais, so do the attendees. There's little shock value in him anymore.

Also thought his message telling the winners not to bring up culture or politics was strange and poorly timed considering the climate crisis and a President trying to start a non-democratic war.

Boredstiff666 · 06-01-2020 01:59PM

PatrickSmithUS wrote: »

I love Gervais in sitcoms but find this outright insulting of people a little base.

Very lowest common denominator.

A convicted crim and celebs with huge fuel guzzling lifestyles lecturing us how we must live to save the holiday hotspots from global warming not to mention the other stuff.

They are open targets for anyone.

Boredstiff666 · 06-01-2020 02:03PM

LineOfBeauty wrote: »

Also thought his message telling the winners not to bring up culture or politics was strange and poorly timed considering the climate crisis and a President trying to start a non-democratic war.

We all got have a vote on who we can regard as bad guys from now on. Then a vote on how they should be dealt with. Then a vote on when?

Trouble is those bad guys dont live in your world.

Even more so when you cant stop having a pop at Trump who wasnt there or up for an award but decided you must bring him in to the Holywood awards.

One rule for one and another for the rest of us.

Homelander · 06-01-2020 02:48PM

The bit about the Irishman - "We'll be showing a short clip. It's 88 minutes long".

He doesn't always land with the jokes but I've massively enjoyed all his hostings, will never forget how he roasted Tim Allen and Robert Downey Junior.

06-01-2020 02:57PM

He only has one character.. what is with the smile/grimace too?.. yeah, he's just not funny or intelligent, despite what he'd try to have you believe..to have him doing whatever awards is just a publicity exercise for all involved.. yeah, just best ignored..

(Ricky gervais in awards controversy shocker, after doing the exact same controversial thing several years ago..)

Boredstiff666 · 06-01-2020 03:00PM

Deleted User wrote: »

he's just not funny or intelligent,

You cant say that because he obviously has more cash than most of us and probably you so there is something amiss in your post dont you think.

06-01-2020 03:07PM

Boredstiff666 wrote: »

You cant say that because he obviously has more cash than most of us and probably you so there is something amiss in your post dont you think.

No..
Didn't his shows on religion and whatever a few years ago showed the depth of his analysis.. pretty much surface level..

There's more to life than money too..

Tom Mann Centuria · 06-01-2020 03:09PM

I look forward to him keeping his mouth shut when another picture of a gun-toting fat American standing over a dead animal in Africa appears.

punisher5112 · 06-01-2020 03:11PM

So many now are offended over anything......

Seriously who gives a rat's arse.

grogi · 06-01-2020 03:12PM

jiltloop wrote: »

So which joke was it that offended you?

Joking about abuse is nothing but insensitivity towards the victims.

Agricola · 06-01-2020 03:13PM

He can't win. If he did a safe, celebrity friendly hosting job with some mild jibes, he'd be castigated as a hollywood sop who doesn't give pretentious millionaires the kick in balls they richly deserve.
When he goes back year after year and wipes the floor with them, he's just a nasty man who isn't being nice enough to the poor downtrodden millionaire actors!

He's dead right. These people are all at the top of the tree and the golden globes is a televised circle **** where they tell each other how wonderful they are and increase their already astronomical earning power. Why not have someone host it who will point out what a load of detached bollox it really is. Harvey Weinstein used to be sitting that audience a few short years ago and all the same people clapped him on the back when he collected awards for his "work"

grogi · 06-01-2020 03:14PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

So many now are offended over anything......

Seriously who gives a rat's arse.

They always were, but we're silenced and brushed under the carpet. Today they are not afraid to say they do not feel right about something. These days medicore comedians have to make the last three brain cells work hard to figure out if it can be offensive.

vicwatson · 06-01-2020 03:15PM

Deleted User wrote: »

There's more to life than money too..

As Ricky Gervais will agree.

He's leaving all his millions to animal welfare charities, so they are they only ones that will benefit

LineOfBeauty · 06-01-2020 03:16PM

Agricola wrote: »

He can't win. If he did a safe, celebrity friendly hosting job with some mild jibes, he'd be castigated as a hollywood sop who doesn't give pretentious millionaires the kick in balls they richly deserve.
When he goes back year after year and wipes the floor with them, he's just a nasty man who isn't being nice enough to the poor downtrodden millionaire actors!

He's dead right. These people are all at the top of the tree and the golden globes is a televised circle **** where they tell each other how wonderful they are and increase their already astronomical earning power. Why not have someone host it who will point out what a load of detached bollox it really is. Harvey Weinstein used to be sitting that audience a few short years ago and all the same people clapped him on the back when he collected awards for his "work"

I think the issue some have is that his jibes are at best surface level stuff that the Hollywood elite are more than willing to take on the chin, essentially they are very much "in" on the joke. Aside from Epstein, his jokes were very tame, very little edge to them at all.

06-01-2020 03:17PM

vicwatson wrote: »

As Ricky Gervais will agree.

He's leaving all his millions to animal welfare charities, so they are they only ones that will benefit

He was virtue signalling before it was cool..

magic_murph · 06-01-2020 03:22PM

The office was good but got stale. He decided to stop making it to focus on other projects.
Out comes Extras – basically a carbon copy of the office. Make joke / have embarrassing moment – look to the camera. A style that he has over used in basically everything he has done even in after life which was seriously depressing, a show that didn’t need to follow the style of the office but still did.

Gervais has one trick and one trick only. It used to be a good trick but is far from it now.
Not really a fan of his comedy and comes across as a billy big bollix but anytime somebody shines a light up the hole of the world celebrity and exposes it for the hollowness that it is gets my virtual vote.

Agricola · 06-01-2020 03:25PM

LineOfBeauty wrote: »

I think the issue some have is that his jibes are at best surface level stuff that the Hollywood elite are more than willing to take on the chin, essentially they are very much "in" on the joke. Aside from Epstein, his jokes were very tame, very little edge to them at all.

What do you expect him to say? He's being paid to do a job and remain within some limits of professionalism and decorum. He can't start finger pointing at people who he believes were frequent flyers on the Lolita Express!
He's goes about as far as he can for the job he's doing.

Thelonious Monk · 06-01-2020 03:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

He was virtue signalling before it was cool..

Or maybe he likes animals

Thelonious Monk · 06-01-2020 03:26PM

magic_murph wrote: »

The office was good but got stale. He decided to stop making it to focus on other projects.
Out comes Extras – basically a carbon copy of the office. Make joke / have embarrassing moment – look to the camera. A style that he has over used in basically everything he has done even in after life which was seriously depressing, a show that didn’t need to follow the style of the office but still did.

Gervais has one trick and one trick only. It used to be a good trick but is far from it now.
Not really a fan of his comedy and comes across as a billy big bollix but anytime somebody shines a light up the hole of the world celebrity and exposes it for the hollowness that it is gets my virtual vote.

When did it get stale, when it peaked in the final 2 episode Christmas Special, which must be up there with the best finales of any series ever made?

LineOfBeauty · 06-01-2020 03:29PM

Agricola wrote: »

What do you expect him to say? He's being paid to do a job and remain within some limits of professionalism and decorum. He can't start finger pointing at people who he believes were frequent flyers on the Lolita Express!
He's goes about as far as he can for the job he's doing.

I don't know what I expect him to do but he's like the easiest cop out in Hollywood. Get Gervais, he'll do a few jokes about a film being too long, or DiCaprio being old and everyone will think Hollywood has been sufficiently dissed and can laugh at itself.

06-01-2020 03:33PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Or maybe he likes animals

Shur we'll all be extinct by the time Ricky is dead..and really, if you're going to do something like that do it quietly.. it's a virtuous publicity stunt that will appeal to a certain gullible contingent..

Penn · 06-01-2020 03:34PM

magic_murph wrote: »

The office was good but got stale. He decided to stop making it to focus on other projects.
Out comes Extras – basically a carbon copy of the office. Make joke / have embarrassing moment – look to the camera. A style that he has over used in basically everything he has done even in after life which was seriously depressing, a show that didn’t need to follow the style of the office but still did.

Gervais has one trick and one trick only. It used to be a good trick but is far from it now.
Not really a fan of his comedy and comes across as a billy big bollix but anytime somebody shines a light up the hole of the world celebrity and exposes it for the hollowness that it is gets my virtual vote.

I thought both The Office and Extras were fantastic. However, most of what he's done since then has been extremely poor. I liked Afterlife to an extent, but it was still pretty weak, and the entire premise was more just a setup for "Man says offensive things".

And that's the issue with Gervais in recent years; being offensive for the sake of being offensive doesn't make something funny. There's nothing clever about his jokes any more, nothing worth listening to. His jokes are the equivalent of a Whatsapp group called "Ladz Megabantz" or something.

I enjoyed his old standup shows. But I've said it before, his last Netflix special was about 70 minutes of "I said something on Twitter and someone said they were offended, so I said something even more offensive, and they got even more offended, so I then said something even more offensive, so I won" on a loop.

He, as he very often points out, has the freedom to say what he likes and it doesn't matter if people are offended or not. That doesn't mean that what he's saying is in any way good or funny.

Agricola · 06-01-2020 03:35PM

LineOfBeauty wrote: »

I don't know what I expect him to do but he's like the easiest cop out in Hollywood. Get Gervais, he'll do a few jokes about a film being too long, or DiCaprio being old and everyone will think Hollywood has been sufficiently dissed and can laugh at itself.

Well there's only one alternative to that. Someone like Billy Crystal licking the audience's ass for hours on end and maybe doing a broadway number at the interval.
As far as I can see if someone gets up on that stage and mentions Jeffrey Epstein's "suicide" while telling the audience he was their best buddy, that's about as good as it gets!

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Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 06-01-2020 03:54PM

I don’t like Ricky Gervais as a person. I’ve read a few interviews with him down the years and he almost always comes across obstreperous, grumpy and just plain snide. I also don’t believe him when he says he hates fame. He seems to enjoy having high profile friends. BUT I do like SOME of his output so I’ll just enjoy that and ignore his crappy personality.

IAMAMORON · 06-01-2020 03:56PM

I think it is important that all the Hollywood lush lovey brigade get a proper reality check. It can become excruciating watching them smile, accept their awards and then barf out some rancid idealistic diatribe about how they think the world should be... They live in wonderland the lot of them. They have no clue what the world is like. They spend their entire lives licking ass and making money, I don't need any of them to tell me the way the world should be, I don't care either. All I want from them is to perform in their movies and then get out of my life.

Rene Zellweger looked really fit though, when she gets skinny she gets very foxy. I might let her away with a bland lecture on animal fur or, " isn't Trump such a chunt etc " .

punisher5112 · 06-01-2020 03:58PM

Bubble wrap for everybody....

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 06-01-2020 04:00PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

It's part of his whole schtick at the moment. He goes on about PC gone mad and how commedians should be able to say whatever they want. He's right to an extent of course. But trying to say things which are primarily offensive so he can be persecuted, is not really the work of a comedian. I generally like his comedy but i've never thought we could get on personally.

At the moment? No, he’s been doing that for years, most notably around a decade ago at, again, the Golden Globes. He’s pretty self-congratulatory about it all too.

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