14 DAY TRIAL // If you were offended by the jokes Ricky Gervais made at the 2011 Golden Globes, then it’s your problem and no one else’s, the British comedian says in a post on his official blog. As for the conspiracy theories making the rounds, we might as well forget about them.
During and after the Globes, the entire blogosphere was awash with rumors and speculation about what may happen to Gervais after the HFPA bosses were done with him for the jokes he made during the ceremony.
Some even went as far as to suggest that, because he’d offended all Hollywood royalty, Gervais would never work in the US again – and that whatever he put out next would be doomed from the start.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, he says. All his jokes were chosen with great care as to the people they made reference to: he only went for people with a good, healthy sense of humor.
Consequently, no one in the venue was offended – so there’s no reason viewers should have felt that way either.
“All the same conspiracy theories as last year too... ‘So and so was offended’... ‘hasn’t been invited back yet’... exactly the same as last time. ‘Paul McCartney was furious’... no he wasn’t. And nor was Tim Allen and Tom Hanks. I was drinking with them after,” Gervais writes.
It’s ok if people didn’t like his routine, he goes on to say, but from that to saying that everyone else hated it is quite a stretch – and people should know better than to go there.
“Why do people have to embellish? They’re allowed to say they hated it. They’re allowed to say they didn’t find it funny, that it was tasteless, over the top, or whatever. But why do they speculate and make stuff up?” he asks.
In the same post, he also provides the answer to the question: because, otherwise, the Globes would have to described as this boring affair, which is actually what it was.
“Don’t worry, I know the answer. Because it’s more interesting than ‘it went fine and some people won some awards and then went to a party.’ But that’s all that happened,” Gervais writes.
“Actually, I see what they mean. Boring. So here’s what really happened. Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone started a fight with me but Alec Baldwin and Mark Walberg stepped in and helped me out. That’s what happened,” he ends with a joke.