Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais, In the end, it was Kim Kardashian and Eddie Murphy who came in ahead of the favourites Russell Brand and Katie Perry for those betting on who would be picked on at Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles. No, they may not have won any awards, but they were the first celebrities in the firing line of the “controversial” host Ricky Gervais’s “hotly-anticipated” opening monologue.

Despite the absurd fallout from the ribbing last year of Hollywood glitterati – in particular of Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie for their box office failure The Tourist – which saw the British comic treated as if he’d just taken a machinegun to the entire Beverly Hilton Hotel ballroom, he was invited back again in a remarkable act of masochism (read: shameless PR ploy to attract attention to awards considered largely meaningless in film industry).”The Golden Globes are to the Oscars like Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder. A bit trashier. A bit drunker. And more easily bought,” was Gervais’s first celebrity swipe, before questioning the importance of the Academy Awards after Eddie Murphy had turned down the hosting job. “When the man who says ‘yes’ to Norbit says ‘no’ to you ”

But this time it seemed as if the disobedient dog had been muzzled, and the organising network NBC’s bark about him being “the host they can’t control” was considerably worse than Gervais’s actual bite on the night. Kardashian and Murphy were easy (and absent) targets, but he appeared too timid actually to go after the A-listers in the room. He barely bothered Madonna, who was in the audience (and won a Best Original Song gong for her appearance). He steered clear of Jolie, whose hair was tied back so tight her nose looked in danger of being pulled up to her forehead. He was positively cooing over George Clooney. Instead, the “meanest” host delivered a somewhat lacklustre performance, littered with the self-congratulatory smugness that has become standard in his more recent television output. “Tonight you get Britain’s biggest comedian, hosting the world’s second biggest awards show on America’s third biggest network. Actually fourth,” was an opening gag that had clearly been OK’d with NBC first.

But hosting disappointments aside, the evening proved a success for one Harvey Weinstein and the black-and-white romance The Artist. The Weinstein Company led the pack of studios with six wins, with Harvey undoubtedly the most thanked person on stage. “The Punisher”, “the Boss” and, even, “God” were the numerous titles bestowed on the veteran executive by award winners eager to please their master.

Ricky Gervais Golden Globes

Ricky Gervais Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais says he wants to improve on his controversial performance at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards — by being even more outrageous the next time around.

The British comedian said his third time hosting the annual Hollywood awards ceremony in January 2012 would definitely be his last.

But he is aiming to go out with a bang. “They must be mad. Not sure if I’m flattered that they trust me or insulted that they trust me. Either way…they shouldn’t trust me,” Gervais said in a statement on Thursday.

The caustic creator of TV mockumentary “The Office” last year insulted Golden Globe organizers with jokes about bribes and took shots Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie’s critically-panned movie “The Tourist” that was up for a Golden Globe nomination.

Many of the jokes in the televised broadcast fell flat with the gala audience of A-list stars. The president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hosts the event, said afterward that Gervais would not return.

“I don’t think anyone had the right to be offended but they were. This year I’m going to make sure their offense is completely justified,” Gervais said on his blog on Thursday.

He asked fans to pass on their “favorite targets for the monologue.”

After Golden Globe organizers announced he’d be back one day earlier, Gervais wasted little time in tweaking more ribs in Hollywood. He posted a Twitter message saying that he told Oscars host, comedian Billy Crystal: “He’d better not use any of my holocaust or pedophile material” at the Academy Awards ceremony in February 2012.

Gervais also gloated over being invited back again, saying it was a tough decision for him because “I was worried that I couldn’t improve on last year.”

“What actually tipped the balance and made me say yes, was the fact that it would shut up all those…idiots who said that I’d never be invited back,” he wrote on his blog.

RICKY GERVAIS GOLDEN GLOBES 2011

RICKY GERVAIS GOLDEN GLOBES 2011, With a mouthful of beer and a dam joke, Ricky Gervais, left the audience speechless for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. Promising to “reap it” for the show this year, the actor certainly did not disappoint his fans – but he managed to anger many of Hollywood’s A-List and Price show organizers.

Disappearance from the scene for nearly an hour at the ceremony, many speculated that the host was fired midway through the broadcast [via The Telegraph].

“Besides the fact that it was very shabby with shades slightly sinister, I would say that the show is going very well so far, is not it?” Robert Downy Jr. asked the audience.

Ricky has brought the star of Iron Man, “saying:” … Many of you in this room probably know [Robert Downey Jr.] from facilities like the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County Jail. ”

Ricky also took a dig at the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berk, saying: “I had to help the HFPA President toilet and pop his teeth into” The HFPA president later said, “No comment, “when asked if he would invite to welcome Ricky back Golden Globe Awards for the third consecutive year.

Awards shows are usually a means for MC to make fun of past years’ successes and failures, but humor the British actor is too cruel? He did warn us to issue its objectives Ellen DeGeneres; can we really blame Ricky Gervais?

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