And winners that didn’t [bleep]-ing make sense.
He might as well have been speaking for the rest of us.
When was the last time the Globes were this painful to watch?
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The jokes werent funny.
The acceptance speeches werent nearly tipsy enough.
Worst of all, it was boring.
you could argue aboutthe winnersall you like, but the truth is, the trouble started with Gervais.
He shouldve been the perfect host.
Six years later, though, he was still making the same jokes.
There was the Angelina-Jolie-adopts-anyone-whos-not-white joke.
(2010 version: You could be a little Asian child with no possessions and no money.
But you could see a picture of Angelina Jolie and youd think, Mummy!
There was the Mel-Gibson-has-issues joke.
(2010 version: I like a drink as much as the next man.
Unless the next man is Mel Gibson.
There was the Charlie-Sheen-is-a-very-bad-boy joke.
When Gervais did manage to riff on more timely subjects, the punchlines were just as lazy.
(No disrespect to the fourth-graders out there who found the line about Tambors low-hanging testicles hilarious!)
Im being paid the same as Tina and Amy last year, he said.
Its not my fault if theres two of them, and they want to share the money!
He was trying to call attention to an important issue.
Of course, you cant blame everything on Gervais.
(Sadly, its not a biopic about the composers lost years in the Amazon.
When the HFPA did get things right yay forMr.
Robot,Taraji P. Henson,Rachel Bloom, andMaura Tierney!
it was such an anomaly, youd be forgiven for imagining that fsociety, the anarchist group behindMr.
Robot, had hacked into the system and changed the votes.
Awards shows usually thrive on spontaneity.
I waited 20 years for this!You gon wait.
), before closing with a sincere, this-isnt-just-about-me message about indigenous people.
But it was Inarritu who scored the best line.
Well, its hard to know how to answer to that.
Will this years Golden Globe winners be remembered forever?
Thats up for debate.
Personally, I find it hard to imagine future historians deconstructingMozart in the Jungle.
As for the pain of watching this years awards, lets hope its only temporary.
You owe a round to the rest of us.
