Comedian Ricky Gervais went after everyone in his Golden Globes opening monologue, from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. to the state of cinema.
A new decade has arrived, and with it, another awards season has hit Los Angeles.
The comic, who hosted the show for the fifth time on Sunday, even addressed his own preshow controversy: A transphobic tweet that could have cost him the hosting gig — much like comedian Kevin Hart lost his Oscars hosting job last year — but, he joked, lucky for him, the HFPA doesn’t speak English and doesn’t know what Twitter is.
“I got offered this gig by fax,” he said, adding that they’d be laughing at the association’s expense. “Remember they’re just jokes. We’re all gonna die soon and there’s no sequel.” He was sure to mention that the organization was extremely racist and that’s why there were so few nominees of color, addressed Martin Scorsese’s remarks about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and alluded toBarbs aside, he plugged his Netflix series, “After Life” and gave kudos to the streaming giant, which dominated the Globes nominations this year.
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