Hollywood Hated the Gervais Golden Globes Speech, But New Numbers Show America Loved It

The Western Journal ^ | January 7, 2020 at 2:01pm | Joe Saunders

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hollywood might want to start listening to Ricky Gervais – it seems like a lot of Americans are.

The British comedian made himself an enemy of the movie moguls but endeared himself to millions of Americans Sunday night when he used his platform hosting the Golden Globes to lecture the glitterati in front of him on what viewers didn’t want to hear from them.

“If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech,” Gervais said on the ceremony aired by NBC. “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 f**k off.”

Those words and others from Gervais’ monologue didn’t make Gervais popular to the crowd inside the Beverly Hilton, but television viewers around the country no doubt appreciated it.

As numbers on social media Tuesday showed, Gervais’ speech was still a hit with millions of viewers in the hours and days after the ceremony ended.

[Old Grumpy]

Thanks; I just finished watching it. It was as good as I’d
been hearing about.

[wjcsux]

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3. Richard Jewell

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[GOPJ]

The veil has been lifted. Hollywood preaches climate change hysteria while they fly on $60 million Jets. They lecture us on #MeToo while enabling Harvey Weinstein for 30 years. Ricky Gervais gets it. The days of virtue signaling, self-serving platitudes are over in Hollywood. pic.twitter.com/XtEpGKm21d

The veil has been lifted, torn off and tossed.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We should start calling it the “climate change superstition,” because that’s exactly what it is.

[Deplorable American1776]

Loved it... especially when he skewered Greta...