Ricky Gervais Didn't Give A Single Fuck In His Golden Globes Monologue

Since his first time hosting the awards in 2010, Ricky Gervais and the Golden Globes have long had a fruitful partnership. The Globes — a famously looser, far less buttoned-up affair than the Oscars — get a cheeky emcee who can puncture the artifice of the movie and TV biz (and has done so four previous times). Gervais, meanwhile, gets to roast each person in the room.


That's precisely what happened on Sunday (January 5) at the 2020 show, any time the host started with an eas, "They're just jokes. We'll all gonna perish soon, and there's no sequel" and ended by calling out Apple, Amazon, and Disney by name for their questionable firm practices, name-checking sweatshops in particular. Keeping it nice and light!


Gervais has used his monologue to previously target Caitlyn Jenner, Madonna, Mel Gibson, Tim Allen, and, well, pretty every each person else. Yet for 2020 — his apparent final time as host ever — he went nuclear. "You know nothing about the real world," he mentioned to each person in the room. "Most of you spent much less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So once you come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god, and fuck off."


As per typical, no one was safe. The whole Marvel Cinematic Universe got branded "fantasy adventure nonsense," Kevin Hart's Oscar-host revocation got a shoutout, as did Baby Yoda (or, whoops, that's Joe Pesci), and that eternal 2019 motto, which surmises that Jeffrey Epstein didn't perish by suicide. (To audible groans, Gervais went in: "I know he's your friend, yet I don't care.")


The real star of Gervais's beginning barrage, though, was Tom Hanks. The legendary good guy sat there with mouth agape at a Felicity Huffman prison joke that targeted her role in the college admissions scandal. There were lots of good reaction shots while the set, case in point. What else would you expect?


As for the overwhelming whiteness of the nominees? Several talented people of color were snubbed... There's nothing we can do about that. The Hollywood Foreign press are very racist," he said.


The man was relentless. He deployed a good barb about Leonardo DiCaprio's penchant for young models and even made a timely reference to the (apparently little-seen) Cats by taking a dig at James Corden. And he didn't stop there! Maybe the largest bomb of Gervais's entire monologue was a particularly blue quip about Cats star Dame Judi Dench licking herself. You could imagine the rest.


The 2020 Golden Globes are well underway, and also you could visualize the complete winners list right here.