Ricky Gervais Bluntly Reacts To Suggestion He Should Host The 2023 Golden Globes
โ€” Updated on 11 January 2023

Ricky Gervais Bluntly Reacts To Suggestion He Should Host The 2023 Golden Globes

โ€” Updated on 11 January 2023
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The Golden Globes might be returning to its former glory in 2023 after being relegated to a sad mere Twitter thread this year, but donโ€™t hold your breath for Ricky Gervais to return as the notoriously dull award ceremonyโ€™s acid-tongued emcee anytime soon (if ever).

A viral clip of Gervais scorching pretty much all of Hollywood captioned with โ€œRetweet if you wish @rickygervais would host the Golden Globes again in 2023โ€ has recently been doing the rounds. Attracting well over 37 million views โ€“ and with The Office (UK) creator explicitly tagged โ€“ naturally, it was only a matter of time before said tweet/clip caught his attention.

โ€œFuck that,โ€ Ricky Gervais, 61, simply quote retweeted with a laughing emoji. No elaboration necessary despite the pleads from an entire legion of fans, like the certified GigaChad he is.

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Ricky Gervais enjoyed a renewed sense of infamy/support from the general population after hosting the Golden Globes for the fifth and final occasion back in 2020. During an interview with The Guardian, he explained there was indeed a method behind his brutality.

โ€œDo I pander to the 200 billionaires in the room or the 200 million people at home sitting in their [underwear] drinking beer who arenโ€™t winning awards, who arenโ€™t billionaires?โ€ said Ricky Gervais.

โ€œItโ€™s a no-brainer for a comedian. Iโ€™m a jester. I play to the other peasants in the mud. I wasnโ€™t going in terrible. Think of the things I could have saidโ€ฆ Think of the fucking terrible things I could have joked about. Itโ€™s off the charts โ€” Itโ€™s. Off. The. Charts โ€” the terrible things I could say.โ€

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Although that isnโ€™t to say he didnโ€™t have any supporters among the crowd of elites a la Johnny Depp after the demolition job Ricky Gervais exacted upon him circa 2011.

โ€œRobert De Niro was just crying with laughter when I made a joke about Hugh Hefner and his young bride. He called me after a week and said: โ€˜I wanna say you did a great job.โ€™ โ€˜Oh man,โ€™ I said, โ€˜I annoyed some people.โ€™ He said: โ€˜Fuck โ€™em, they were jokes.โ€™โ€

The 2023 Golden Globes might be off the table (for the time being), but perhaps there may come a day where Ricky Gervais is called up to the big leagues for some iteration of the Academy Awards. Although letโ€™s be real: the heightened level of self-congratulatory pleasantries probably isnโ€™t his cup of tea.

Check out Ricky Gervaisโ€™ greatest confirmed kills secured at the Golden Globes (2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, & 2020) below.

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