Gervais Deserves a Medal for Roasting the Golden Globes

[Warlord]

'Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama. A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. So, well, you say you’re woke, but the companies you work for. I mean, unbelievable: Apple, Amazon, Disney. If Isis started a streaming service, you’d call your agent, wouldn’t you? So if you do win an award tonight, please don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. 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 fuck off.'

A particular stroke of genius, that, I thought – shoehorning in Hollywood’s current patron saint, St Greta, for the sole purpose of dismissing her antics in a supremely dismissive putdown about school truancy.

Better still, though, was the attack on the woke nexus that extends from Silicon Valley to Hollywood. Gervais is right. These are not good people. They are the totalitarians of their age – as oppressive, in their way, as the Marxist and Fascist and Nazi threats which preceded them, only much more insidious because their evil is disguised with a smiley, caring, socially conscious face.

It needed saying and finally someone dared say it.

Interviewed recently in the Spectator, Gervais explained why he will never apologise for his jokes, however tasteless:

‘Everyone’s thing is the worst thing in the world,’ he tells me. ‘We all do it. We go to a show and say “I wish he hadn’t joked about that. That’s the thing I care about”.’ He recalls playing in New York for the first time and receiving a letter from a Jewish society upset about his Anne Frank material. ‘I said to them, “You laughed at the jokes about famine, Aids and cancer. You knew I was joking there, didn’t you?” I’m playing the idiot. That’s what irony is. It’s the opposite of what you actually think. You wouldn’t satirise an idea that you fundamentally agreed with and get excited about it as an artist.’

More:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...dal-for-roasting-the-golden-globes-wankerati/

 

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

How indeed. This tweet says far more than he knows. Him and most of the people liking and retweeting.

 

[Warlord]

He has 14 million followers on twitter!

I like him. He's funny.

 

[Mach]

There's something about a bunch of Hollywood people sitting around and getting gone off on that is very satisfying.

 

[Danke]

 

[Anti Globalist]

Isn't Ricky Gervais a liberal as well?

 

[dannno]

Isn't Ricky Gervais a liberal as well?

Yes, and an atheist.

 

[Valli6]

Some icing on the cake is that Gervais gained over 300,000 new twitter followers because of this one rant. For Hollywood's SJWs, that should really underscore the reality of how real people outside their bubble actually view them - hope it hurts. May also make Gervais curious about who the hell these "conservative" types really are, and what they actually believe. Maybe he'll learn some concepts that had never occurred to him before - something, for example, like classical liberalism.

 

[euphemia]

He said what the rest of us would like to say.

It would be too much to hope for that someone out there got a clue and will re-evaluate their lives.

 

[juleswin]

He said something similar in his show "The Extras". If you like the speech, you should definitely give the show a watch. I have been posting clips from his comedy shows where messsages like these are injected in it.

 

[Valli6]

Certainly gives every appearance of "getting it".

https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1214846542210904065

 

[Anti Globalist]

Gervais must have gained a lot of followers on Twitter after this.

 

[Warlord]

Gervais must have gained a lot of followers on Twitter after this.

I think they will be disappointed when Gervais rips conservatives. Then they will be the ones to complain

 

[devil21]

I think they will be disappointed when Gervais rips conservatives. Then they will be the ones to complain

An equal opportunity ripper has been sorely missing from the comedy scene. There used to be a few but they either sold out (Maher) or died (Carlin).