Ricky Gervais was hilarious. I adore him and his sense of humor. He was actually quite tame last night compare to how he usually eviscerate the likes of Karl Pilkington (those who know Ricky know who I am talking about). Hollywood can dish it out but they suck at taking it. The GG people knew what they were getting with Gervais, so they can't act surprised when he acts like..well..Ricky Gervais!
what usually bothers me about these situations is:
they hire "Ricky Gervais" and then are shocked/ticked/disappointed that they get "Ricky Gervais",,,,,KWIM!?
That's like saying Ricky's behavior should be exactly the same at a funeral & at a ball game.
There is something called being appropriate to the situation, while still being one's self.
Ricky IS brilliantly talented, and he has the intelligence to know to reign it in with some appropriateness.
This wasn't a celebrity roast, which can also get out of hand - but people know to expect it, it was an award show
honoring and celebrating people.
I think Tim Allen summed it up. "Ricky Gervais used to be fat & funny. Now, he is neither."
I think this was a time where the former fat kid had an opportunity to get back and MEANLY poke fun at all those kids on the play ground who made fun of him. Too bad, passive aggressive hostility was misplaced and his targets were his peers supporting him and not those old kids on the playground.
Just out of curiosity, what did he say in insult the head of the hollywood foreign press?
It was while he was introducing the head of the Hollywood Foreign Press. He said something to the effect of referring to his age, by needing to be there at the toilet to wipe his butt, get him to a walker & put his teeth in.
We poke fun at
ourselves on the Old Fogies thread all the time for getting older. We don't mean spiritedly humiliate another person in front of a thousand peers when they weren't expecting it.
