Ricky Gervais Made A Very Clever Golden Globes ManueverJanuary 6, 2020 By Emily Jashinsky
Ricky Gervais knowingly set Hollywood up for a glittering failure on Sunday. I’m not sure it was the best ever, but his opening monologue at the Golden Globes deserves to go down in award show history for its definitive and explicit rebuke of one of the season’s grandest traditions—and one of the industry’s most iconic blindspots: the political acceptance speech.
“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world,†he told the room of insiders. “Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god and f-ck off.â€
But it wasn’t to be. Patricia Arquette and Michelle Williams, no strangers to this genre of acceptance speech, both spent their allotted time on politics. ...
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