Ricky Gervais At Globes
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@barbarian said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
@sparky said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
Thought you would never read a more humourless, woke response to Ricky Gervais' monologue at this year's Golden Globes than the one in the Independent. The team at the Guardian want you to hold their tofu sandwich:
Like many on this thread I understand the actors and celebrities being out of touch, pontificating from the lectern as they receive their relatively meaningless awards. Of course they aren't connected to the real world, how could you be when you earn that much money and live in a totally different universe?
I find it far harder to give the same leeway to journalists like old mate here, and the others on the thread. The job of a journalist isn't to reflect the opinions of the masses per se, but it's definitely not a good thing to be this disconnected from where people are. Not only did they not like Gervais, but the reason they didn't like him is exactly the reason that almost everyone did.
It's symptomatic of the wider disconnect between the hard left journos and publications, and the opinions of the wider populace in the UK and US. Not sure we have the same problem yet here (although there certainly are nutters out there) but it could happen.
Allow me to introduce you to the Spinoff
Here’s a good article to kick it off with . The sight of Glee on my tv usually resulted in me grabbing the remote and finding something, anything else to watch but from what I recall it had loads of openly gay characters ( some tidy lezzos too) , a kid in a wheelchair a ridiculous amount of ethnics , fat chicks and probably a load of other ott woke garbage I fortunately missed .
10 years on its “ problematic”.
NZ website of the year apparently.
Ffs.
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@barbarian said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
I find it far harder to give the same leeway to journalists like old mate here, and the others on the thread. The job of a journalist isn't to reflect the opinions of the masses per se, but it's definitely not a good thing to be this disconnected from where people are. Not only did they not like Gervais, but the reason they didn't like him is exactly the reason that almost everyone did.
Yep. Pretty out of touch.
I remember the day when they were "reporters", told the story, didn't make any social comment on it, or opine. Always has been two sides of course, but it up to the individual to chose which side and the "journalist" isn't there to sway the public. Sadly we have the Murdoch's of this world (along with his minions) who choose a side and then try and influence others.
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@jegga said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
@voodoo said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
@Kirwan I obvs don't have the numbers, but I wouldn't have thought it would be sky high for people who would have otherwise vaxed their kids deciding not to because of some celeb? Def not zero, but not crazy numbers either?
When Oprah has Jenny McCarthy on fapping about how a vaccine caused her sons autism I think that has a huge reach .
If only Oprah could put her powers to good use “ tonight on a very important Oprah , how a ffm threesome would improve your relationship with your husband “ or similar.
Yeah no doubt Oprah has some unique reach. But I'd still maintain celebrities are just a small subset of the world's fckwits mouthing off (don't get me started on religion). I'm absolutely ok to mock the shit out of them, and I love Rickys work, but I generally can't really get that worked up over it
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Looking forward to Ricky Gervais giving CPAC the same treatment. Not sure they will be as welcoming or understanding.
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@sparky said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
@booboo Annual shindig of the American Conservative Union.
I doubt these days as many of them would laugh along to Ricky Gervais taking the piss out of them as Golden Globes audience did on Sunday.
I'd say the new populist conservative/libertarian generation would. Pro free speech, pro comedy. Its no longer just the party for stuck-up evangelicals. I've met a few speakers from the last Aussie one, Renee Gorman, Raheem Kassam, Sydney Watson, Jacinta Price all good value. Plenty of old school freedom loving Liberals switching sides of late. Pisses off both progressives and the alt-right alike.
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Now NBC are cancelling the Golden Globes for not being woke enough.
The Baftas and the Oscars got their lowest ratings ever this year. Ricky Gervais 2020 Golden Globes monologue went viral and was enjoyed by tens of millions are the world.
But no, the Golden Globes must now become like the dull as shit Baftas or Oscars. Wokeness not rating or the punter now rules television.
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@sparky said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
Now NBC are cancelling the Golden Globes for not being woke enough.
The Baftas and the Oscars got their lowest ratings ever this year. Ricky Gervais 2020 Golden Globes monologue went viral and was enjoyed by tens of millions are the world.
But no, the Golden Globes must now become like the dull as shit Baftas or Oscars. Wokeness not rating or the punter now rules television.
Sounds like an attempt at a "new normal" as well as the woke crap. Movie studios are sick of how much it costs to bribe the HFPA.
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@antipodean said in Ricky Gervais At Globes:
@sparky quite frankly apart from Gervais' monologues, what are we being deprived of? Another occasion for the fabulously out-of-touch to publicly fellate each other?
Exactly, they don't show the SAG awards, or any of the others. Globes were clever to turn themselves into a bellweather for the Oscars. But with the Oscars tanking under the load of woke culture, that's not important either.