Gervais rags Mel Gibson, plugs movie as host of the Golden Globes
Viewers got a free show when Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globe awards on NBC last Sunday.
“I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson,” Gervais joked during the show.
Paul McCartney also got some ragging, “We were on the same plane to get here,” Gervais said of McCartney. “I was in first and he was behind me in coach. Well, he spent a lot of money last year.” McCartney and Heather Mills divorced last year, and while the audience groaned about the joke, Gervais told them, “I don’t think we have to feel too sorry for him. He’s doing all right.”
Gervais said that he was pleased to be able to get through the night, and that everyone took his jokes well, including Mel Gibson. Of course, that could be because he forewarned Gibson that he was going to be the butt of one of the night’s cruelest jokes.
Throughout the night, Gervais also plugged the DVD release of his latest movie “The Invention of Lying.” Apparently the ploy worked, Gervais said, because the DVD sold roughly 70,000 copies in a number of hours after the show.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 4:36 pm by jordan
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