# The Golden Globes Watchalong thread. Anyone interested? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886 "2011-01-17T00:37:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/101 "2011-01-18T17:14:12Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Yeah, Ricky was pushing the envelope, but if you didn’t expect that when you hired him, you weren’t paying attention. I personally thought he was funny only about half the time or so, but I think he makes a good host for this gig. The news report last night said somebody or other complained that Gervais was “cruel and snotty” to which the wife and I said, “Well, yeah. Haven’t they ever seen his act?”. > [@](#): > > I did like the reply from Tom and Tim … Tom said, “We remember Ricky from when he was just a slightly chubby comedian ..” which Tim followed up with “Neither of which he is now” or something similar. Now that’s good repartee! “Slightly chubby and very kind”, IIRC. > [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > The thought that kept running through my mind was: the celebs say worse things about Sarah Palin and now, when the shoe is on the other foot, they’re not happy about being on the receiving end. And they will go right back to their Palin bashing having not made the connection at all. :smack: Yeah - curse Tom Hanks and his anti-Palin campaign! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/102 "2011-01-18T18:04:28Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > \ > > I did like the reply from Tom and Tim … Tom said, “We remember Ricky from when he was just a slightly chubby comedian ..” which Tim followed up with “Neither of which he is now” or something similar. Now that’s good repartee! Slightly chubby AND kind. ETA: OOps. Forgot the third page. 🙂 I think the Hitler thing would have been hysterical, too. One thing Hollywood is NOT is self-aware. I can see why some of the movers and shakers (the same people who keep making the same movies over and over) wouldn’t have found him entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/103 "2011-01-18T18:15:02Z")
The HWFP is going to blackball him for making jokes? Right, that’ll teach him. Do they even know who Ricky Gervaise is? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/104 "2011-01-18T18:17:15Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Gervais did abandon one of his more provocative ideas. He was going to come out dressed like Hitler, look at the audience and say “Too much?” > > Which is hilarious to me but in a Hollywood filled with a lot of very powerful Jewish men would pretty much get him blackballed for good. You left out the punchline: Gervais was going to look out at the sure-to-be-shocked audience and say, “That’s the last time I get an outfit from Mel Gibson.” ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/105 "2011-01-18T19:10:53Z")
I read an article about how the HWFP guy that Gervais joked about was bitching about how inappropriate Gervais was and then went on to talk about how they’d hired him last year, but were shocked when he went further this year. You hired him, dippity-do, after knowing exactly what he was, and you just admitted as much! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_Tightlips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@Joey\_Tightlips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_Tightlips)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/106 "2011-01-18T20:43:38Z")
Am I the only one who thought it was clear that all of Ricky’s jokes were scripted and the presenters knew it was coming? Obviously the stiff-arm from Carrell was planned the whole time, and the “comebacks” from Tim Allen and Robert Downy were too quick to have been thought up on the spot. I think there were other comebacks too, but they just weren’t delivered well enough to be memorable. I think they intended the whole time to have Ricky act as the villain for the night and the presenters would then take him down a peg to act as the heros. It was just that he was too good at being the villain, that’s all anyone wants to talk about! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/107 "2011-01-18T21:19:33Z")
> [@Joey\_Tightlips](#): > > Am I the only one who thought it was clear that all of Ricky’s jokes were scripted and the presenters knew it was coming? Obviously the stiff-arm from Carrell was planned the whole time, and the “comebacks” from Tim Allen and Robert Downy were too quick to have been thought up on the spot. I think there were other comebacks too, but they just weren’t delivered well enough to be memorable. > > I think they intended the whole time to have Ricky act as the villain for the night and the presenters would then take him down a peg to act as the heros. It was just that he was too good at being the villain, that’s all anyone wants to talk about! You’re not the only one. Good point about the intended insultees’ retorts being a little too good and quick. And again, I won’t believe that the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Bruce Willis, etc. are that thin skinned as to be mortified over jokes that have been made about them dozens of times. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/108 "2011-01-18T22:48:07Z")
The comedians’ retorts wouldn’t have to be scripted - that’s their bread and butter, after all. Agreed about Robert Downey Jr. and Bruce Willis - I don’t think “thin-skinned” when I think of either of them. They might be tired of the same damned jokes, though - I know I would be. On the other hand, a perfectly legitimate response from either of them is simply, “Scoreboard.” (I.e. they’re both having successful careers and apparently getting hotter as they get older.) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/109 "2011-01-19T16:20:36Z")
He doesn’t do it much with his stand up routine but Ricky Gervaise has a soft spot for the humour of awkward situations. The humour in The Office and Extras is predominantly awkward. He also did an interview with Gary Shandling that was very awkward (and that Gervaise subsequently said he loved.) Shandling is another comedian who loves awkwardness. I don’t think I’d go so far as to say he planned it to be awkward but I think he’d be perfectly happy when his jokes got embarrassed groans from the audience. If the laughs aren’t coming thick and fast the way they do when he’s performing to an audience that has paid specifically to see him, awkward silences are the next best thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/110 "2011-01-19T21:17:29Z")
“Fancy an awkward pause?” ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/111 "2011-01-20T02:46:33Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > He doesn’t do it much with his stand up routine but Ricky Gervaise has a soft spot for the humour of awkward situations. The humour in The Office and Extras is predominantly awkward. He also did an interview with Gary Shandling that was very awkward (and that Gervaise subsequently said he loved.) Shandling is another comedian who loves awkwardness. I don’t think I’d go so far as to say he planned it to be awkward While I was watching, I was thinking some of the awkwardness was planned. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/112 "2011-01-20T06:24:04Z")
[QUOTE=I said] **BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY** … Winner: [Paul Giamatti](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316079/) - [Barney’s Version](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423894/combined) … I have a free pass to see Barney’s Version on Tuesday. It looks pretty funny. [/QUOTE] If anyone cares, I thought **Barney’s Version** was an absolutely frickin’ wonderful movie! Paul G deserved the Globe hands down 100%. I was very disappointed that Andy Garcia and Jim Carrey weren’t nominated for their great performances in their fantastic movies (Garcia’s **City Island** and Carrey’s **I Love You Phillip Morris** ), and that Spacey didn’t win, but really, the Globe couldn’t have gone to a more deserving performance. I wouldn’t be surprised if Giamatti got a surprise Oscar nomination. I’m not expecting it to happen, but the Academy voters have surprised us in the past with “where did that come from?” nominations, so you never know. If they got screeners and were given screenings, it could happen. You can’t see the movie and not know that Giamatti deserves recognition. In any case, I’m glad the Globes voters recognized him. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886/113 "2011-01-20T20:16:37Z")
> [@Joey\_Tightlips](#): > > the “comebacks” from Tim Allen and Robert Downy were too quick to have been thought up on the spot. Do you hang out with a whole lot of really slow, unfunny people? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-golden-globes-watchalong-thread-anyone-interested/567886.md?page=5)