If Batman can stand up for Ricky Gervais then so can I

As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Ricky Gervais. I saw him live for my birthday a few years back, and haven’t stopped talking about it since. Anyone who could come up with the idea for the office and extras is a genius in my book.

There are rumors going around that he has gotten himself banned from the Golden Globes for making some inflammatory comments last night. Honestly, what was the Hollywood Foreign Press Association expecting when they hired him? “Oh he’ll just go on about how lovely everyone is all night, because that’s hilarious right?” He’s a comedian, he gets PAID to make fun of people. And he does it well.

Apparently even the likes of Bruce Willis was offended by some of his comments. Really, Bruce Willis? We’re expected to buy into this image of certain actors or actresses as badasses, but then they go and tattle on Gervais to their agents about what a “meanie” he is.

Don’t get me wrong, his dig at Robert Downey Jr. was definitely taking it too far, but the rest of the jokes he made were pretty much fair game. Hollywood actors and actresses get paid millions of dollars to appear on screen for 2 hours, and literally get treated like gods ( in some cases even better, I doubt the shrines of some of the Greek gods were even as well detailed as some of the shrines fans build to their favorite celebs). Are we really expected to feel sympathetic towards them when one night a year someone makes fun of an aspect of their life that the entire viewing public is well aware of anyway?

Gervais is also supposedly under threat of never being nominated for a Golden Globe. No offense to the Invention of Lying or any other movie he was ever in, but that threat just shows how childish the HFPA is being since he would never be nominated for one anyway. I mean Invention of Lying had that “Pepsi, for when coke isn’t there” line, but assuming they AREN’T that dumb you wouldn’t have seen any Golden Globes in Gervais’ trophy case anyway.


Interestingly, Christian Bale came to his defense. You know you have done something right when you have Batman on your side. But then again, Bale’s idea of humor is punching his mother in the face. Oh, I’ve gone too far now? Guess I’ll have to be banned from the Golden Globes as well.


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