'I Mean, That's Bad': Golden Globes Host Ricky Gervais' Most Provocative Moments of the Night
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"That’s what she says — she says, 'Please don’t.' She uses emotional blackmail."
— on partner Jane Fallon letting him know when his jokes go too far
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"Kill me, we're nearly done."
— introducing the presenter for the final award of the three-hour-long show
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"You can binge watch the entire first season of Afterlife. That’s a show about a man who wants to kill himself after his wife dies of cancer. It has a second season though, so he obviously doesn’t kill himself in the end – just like Jeffrey Epstein. [Pause] Shut up, I don't care. I know he was your friend."
— on ways one could spend their time instead of watching the Golden Globes
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"Leonardo DiCaprio attended the premiere [of Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood], and by the end, his date was too old for him."
— on the film's nearly three-hour run time ... and DiCaprio's propensity for dating younger women
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"If ISIS started a streaming service, you’d call your agent."
— on celebrities working for corporations whose values they don't always agree with
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"Knives Out has three nominations tonight ... see what can happen when you don’t dress people up as cats? It’s that easy."
— snubbing the star-studded Cats after its box-office flop
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"Dame Judi Dench defended the film [Cats], saying it was the role she was born to play. Because she — I can’t do this next joke. Because she loves nothing better than plunking herself down on the carpet, lifting her leg, and licking her m—."
— shocking the audience with a particularly graphic joke about the esteemed actress
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"In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world, from all different backgrounds. But they all have one thing in common — they’re all terrified of Ronan Farrow. He’s coming for you!"
— on journalist Farrow's role in breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal, among other major Hollywood controversies
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"No female directors were nominated this year. Not one. I mean, that’s bad. I’ve had a word with the Hollywood Foreign Press, and they’ve guaranteed that will never happen again. Because working with all the major studios, they’ve agreed to go back the way things were a few years ago, when they didn’t even hire women directors, and that will solve the problem. You’re welcome."
— on a creative "solution" for the lack of female directors nominated this year
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"I came here in a limo tonight, and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman. It’s her daughter I feel sorry for. That must be the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to her, and her dad was in Wild Hogs."
— taking a dig at Huffman's role in and time recently served for the college admissions scandal
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“Our next presenter starred in Netflix’s Bird Box, a movie where people survive by acting like they don’t see a thing — sort of like working for Harvey Weinstein. [Pause] You did it! I didn’t — you did it!”
— taking a jab at the disgraced film producer — whose sexual assault trial begins in New York City on Jan. 6 — and those who worked with him