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Daily Beast trying to downplay Gervais

Ricky Gervais opened the show and did his Ricky Gervais thing. If you hire a smarmy jackass and he acts like a smarmy jackass, then presumably you’ve gotten a return on investment.

He poked and prodded at the privilege and hypocrisy of the rich and famous, though his iron may be too dull at this point to stoke real fire. The bit doesn’t have the same edge, with more rolled eyes than wide eyes at the material in the numerous cutaways to unamused celebrities in the audience.

Calling out the industry to its face will always be fun to witness. Gervais calling it a big year for pedophile movies, “with Surviving R. Kelly, Leaving Neverland, and The Two Popes,” earned a heh. A bleeped joke about Cats star Dame Judi Dench licking her vagina earned a gasp. Mocking Hollywood’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein has earned headlines already.

The danger may not have been there, but some decent chuckles were. It’s hardly shocking to hear Gervais roasting the hypocrisy of actors for feigning “wokeness” while counting dollars and vacation homes when he’s made similar jokes four times before in that very venue in front of those very same celebrities.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-2020-golden-globes-were-confusingly-boring-ricky-gervais-roasting-be-damned