I watched the compilation of his 2010 appearance at the awards last year.
http://videosift.com/video/Ricky-Gervais-Pwning-the-Golden-Globes

He really is very different this year. Almost angry.

Seeing this compilation, I can see why there was such a brouhaha over his work -- it really wasn't that funny by the end, not without his usual charm to soften the kinda of brutal honesty of most of his jokes.

Just so everyone knows, this is not this year's Golden Globes. This year is 2011. It makes the above comment about Gervais not being asked back quite silly.

If you've already watched Grimm's Sift, you might want to skip ahead to the second half at 5:02. *promote

Also, this was his performance last year.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

Well - if there was ever a group of people who desperately need some of the starch taken out of them it is actors.


And yet they hired him again for the 2011 Golden Globes. It's almost like they have a sense of humor about themselves.

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He did that at this Golden Globes specifically so he wouldn't be invited back again. Weeks before the event he was already quoted as saying that they wont be asking him to do an awards show ever again.
>> ^HugeJerk:

I don't understand why they hire Ricky Gervais for awards shows. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy his wry wit, but he turns these events into more of a roast than a celebration of people's work.

>> ^WKB:

Ricky Gervais is just great. I only wish he could have brought Carl Pilkington with him.


It's Karl with a K, he's the K-man, Mr. K Dilkington. You know the drill!

imo gervais was absolutely fucking blisteringly good. The tim allen one was probably my fave. Robert downey junior's gone down in my estimation after being unable to take that. I almost feel like it's high school and some people simply cannot take a decent look at themselves and laugh, they usually do that during college, i guess half of these fuckers never got that far.

If he's back for another year, i'm hereby declaring that "hollywood" deserves everyone's appreciation and respect. I mean, they're an entertainment industry.

Are you not entertained?

>> ^shuac:

Shocker!
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Dammit! We need the ability to promote comments.

• Alec Baldwin was seen wiping a tear from his eye as he laughed along from the audience.

• Rapper and actor Sean 'Diddy' Combs, said he was 'really enjoying it' and said Gervais was 'doing an excellent job'.

• Bruce Willis - backstage he admitted: 'He was fantastic, he killed it, he did great.'

• Rising British actor Andrew Garfield admitted it had been a cringe-worthy performance: 'He's been terribly nasty and horribly rude and I think he's genius.'

• Fellow Brit Christian Bale said he didn’t feel Gervais pushed the envelope enough and added: 'Thank God for comedians, they have the most important job. I hope he keeps going further!'

• De Niro was also seen dissolving into laughter but he too had made his own little jibes about the event as he collected the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1347874/Golden-Globes-2011-Ricky-Gervais-makes-gay-jibe-famous-Scientologist-actors.html#ixzz1BKbsmLPP

Golden Globes exec: Ricky Gervais "crossed the line" - "But That's Ricky!"
Interview by: Bryan Alexander

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Add Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk to the chorus of those who believe that Ricky Gervais went too far as host of the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

The head of the group responsible for the awards show says that while he felt the show itself was "terrific," he too felt that Gervais' jokes about specific celebrities were too much.

"He definitely crossed the line," Berk told The Hollywood Reporter. "And some of the things were totally unacceptable. But that's Ricky."

"Any of the references to individuals is certainly not something the Hollywood Foreign Press condones," he added.

Robert Downey Jr. - the butt of one of Gervais' jokes - said the show was "hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones."

Gervais went after Berk personally with this joke when introducing him saying, "I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in."

While Berk traditionally vets every word of the Globes' script, he says that Gervais does not allow that pre-show scrutiny as host. "That's not how Ricky works," he said.

"I had absolutely no idea what Ricky was going to say so anything I heard was at the same time you heard it," Berk said. "When you hire Ricky Gervais, you expect the unexpected."

As for widespread rumors that Gervais was lectured during the show or kept from reappearing at key moments, Berk dismissed them as "ridiculous."

"It was always planned that in the section of important awards he was not going to be part of (the show)," says Berk. "He was never called on the carpet, or given a warning or anything else."

Berk would not comment whether he would recommend to the membership to have Gervais back next year as host.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE70G5QZ20110117

The golden globes was actually fun to watch last night because of Gervais. The guy is known for pushing the envelope. I mean some of his jokes in his last special on HBO were 'really' bad, but funny as hell. Last night he was great. Some of these people have ego's that filled that room and most of them need to have their ego's deflated a bit and Gervais was the perfect man to do that.

I've seen on TV all day some really bad 'reviews' about how he made enemies of these actors and how scathing and hateful he was. All of that is bullshit. It was satire, plain and simple. Funny ass satire. If these 'actors' don't understand that it was all in good fun, then they just show us all what kind of people they truly are.

Gervais certainly won't be back next year. He went to far in the eyes of these actors. But I'm glad he did and I knew he would. He always pushes that envelope until he can get as raunchy as he wants, and he is absolutely the master at that art.

Something I can throw and hit you with including their VCRs.

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What is this 'VHS' of which you speak? Sounds like witchcraft.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Thank you. At least I don't have to find it in my VHS tape.


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http://videosift.com/video/Ricky-Gervais-Trolls-Tim-Allen

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>> ^shuac:

The Tim Allen jab, later in the evening, was absolutely hysterical and 100% true.


When was that shown?

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In reply to this comment by ant:
Thank you. At least I don't have to find it in my VHS tape.


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http://videosift.com/video/Ricky-Gervais-Trolls-Tim-Allen

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>> ^shuac:

The Tim Allen jab, later in the evening, was absolutely hysterical and 100% true.


When was that shown?