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Post by everso on Jan 18, 2011 10:41:57 GMT
What a treat. Hear the gasps. Watch the faces. The Hollywood stars couldn't believe their ears.  Ricky Gervais won't be invited back next year, but what a swansong! I'm amazed he was asked back THIS year after the 2010 awards. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 18, 2011 10:50:16 GMT
Sorry Mrs E, but he the most unfunny twat ever...
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Post by aubrey on Jan 18, 2011 12:20:58 GMT
But they hired him to be Ricky Gervaise; they can't complain when that's what he does. If they'd wanted Billy Crystal, they should have hired him.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 18, 2011 13:58:11 GMT
Sorry Mrs E, but he the most unfunny twat ever... AH I don't particularly like him either, Alph, but I hafta admire his nerve. And this made me laugh: Of Sex in the City -- "Girls, I remember seeing you in Bonanza!"  |
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Post by trubble on Jan 18, 2011 18:16:12 GMT
Thank you SO MUCH for posting that, Ev. The boy done good. Funniest he's been in years. He should get an award for it. I hope Joan Rivers was watching and learning.
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Post by everso on Jan 18, 2011 22:25:34 GMT
It's painful to watch in a way. I like Ricky Gervais (especially in The Extra) and admire his guts, but the audience, man, they didn't know what hit them. I watched that clip on Youtube this morning and roared with laughter, especially the bit about Cher. That lot need their balloon pricking occasionally. And Alph: I can see our engagement is doomed, what with you not likeing Fawlty Towers AND Ricky Gervais. It just wouldn't work.  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 18, 2011 22:41:24 GMT
I disagree. I thought it was rude. The whole public discourse is so horrible these days; it's seen as being absolutely fine to say anything that you like about a public figure. Just look at America and these tea-party nutters, hairtrigger targets on political posters and all that horrible rhetoric. (Not to mention the 'Obama is a Marxist Muslim' stuff.)
Even in our own little lives, on messageboards, with the exception of the Stub, every single MB has a couple of a-holes on it who can't discuss the issue in question without abusing other posters and calling them names.
What's wrong with being civil?
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Post by everso on Jan 18, 2011 22:48:39 GMT
I disagree. I thought it was rude. The whole public discourse is so horrible these days; it's seen as being absolutely fine to say anything that you like about a public figure. Just look at America and these tea-party nutters, hairtrigger targets on political posters and all that horrible rhetoric. (Not to mention the 'Obama is a Marxist Muslim' stuff.) Even in our own little lives, on messageboards, with the exception of the Stub, every single MB has a couple of a-holes on it who can't discuss the issue in question without abusing other posters and calling them names. What's wrong with being civil? Ah no. There's a difference here. The actors that inhabit the Hollywood world aren't real. They believe all the garbage that's written about them - they must do, or they wouldn't behave the way they do. They NEED taking down a peg or two. And in any case, as Aubs has said, why on earth did they invite him back for a second time? I'm not usually one for watching painful piss-taking on t.v., but I had to laugh at what he said. |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 18, 2011 23:06:33 GMT
And Alph: I can see our engagement is doomed, what with you not likeing Fawlty Towers AND Ricky Gervais. It just wouldn't work. There'll always be a refuge at Castle Yutani for you, Ev. I think you know that. And in my heart. [By the way, I love Flowery Twats Fawlty Towers.] |
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Post by everso on Jan 18, 2011 23:11:02 GMT
Don't start.
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Post by everso on Jan 18, 2011 23:11:36 GMT
;D
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Post by Weyland on Jan 18, 2011 23:24:26 GMT
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Post by everso on Jan 19, 2011 1:15:43 GMT
 I've had a very busy day today. I cleaned out the conservatory and the utility area (many spiders - mostly dead), I baked, I ironed, I shopped. I am not going to tidy an attic. In any case, Mr. E. is in the process of unloading stuff from the attic in order that we should sort it out and hopefully throw stuff away (not my white stilletoes I hasten to add - or my old diaries). We've discovered stuff we forgot we ever had. It turns out we threw nothing away - ever. We still have our children's pram and cot, which are almost museum pieces.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 19, 2011 1:34:00 GMT
hopefully throw stuff away (not my white stilletoes I hasten to add - or my old diaries) Are you taking bids yet? |
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Post by trubble on Jan 19, 2011 9:28:55 GMT
I disagree. I thought it was rude. The whole public discourse is so horrible these days; it's seen as being absolutely fine to say anything that you like about a public figure. Just look at America and these tea-party nutters, hairtrigger targets on political posters and all that horrible rhetoric. (Not to mention the 'Obama is a Marxist Muslim' stuff.) Even in our own little lives, on messageboards, with the exception of the Stub, every single MB has a couple of a-holes on it who can't discuss the issue in question without abusing other posters and calling them names. What's wrong with being civil? Which parts in particular did you find rude? Was it the bit about the special effects award going to the team who airbrushed the girls in the Sex and the City posters? Cos that's not rude. What is rude, is selling the idea that a woman in her forties or fifties has no wrinkles or lumps or bumps... I've got to the stage where I think no one should be allowed on TV without a Wile. E. Coyote type pause for the full details of work done on them. |
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Post by everso on Jan 19, 2011 10:05:32 GMT
I disagree. I thought it was rude. The whole public discourse is so horrible these days; it's seen as being absolutely fine to say anything that you like about a public figure. Just look at America and these tea-party nutters, hairtrigger targets on political posters and all that horrible rhetoric. (Not to mention the 'Obama is a Marxist Muslim' stuff.) Even in our own little lives, on messageboards, with the exception of the Stub, every single MB has a couple of a-holes on it who can't discuss the issue in question without abusing other posters and calling them names. What's wrong with being civil? Which parts in particular did you find rude? Was it the bit about the special effects award going to the team who airbrushed the girls in the Sex and the City posters? Cos that's not rude. What is rude, is selling the idea that a woman in her forties or fifties has no wrinkles or lumps or bumps... I've got to the stage where I think no one should be allowed on TV without a Wile. E. Coyote type pause for the full details of work done on them. Hyar, hyar!  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 19, 2011 15:00:08 GMT
I disagree. I thought it was rude. The whole public discourse is so horrible these days; it's seen as being absolutely fine to say anything that you like about a public figure. Just look at America and these tea-party nutters, hairtrigger targets on political posters and all that horrible rhetoric. (Not to mention the 'Obama is a Marxist Muslim' stuff.) Even in our own little lives, on messageboards, with the exception of the Stub, every single MB has a couple of a-holes on it who can't discuss the issue in question without abusing other posters and calling them names. What's wrong with being civil? Which parts in particular did you find rude? Was it the bit about the special effects award going to the team who airbrushed the girls in the Sex and the City posters? Cos that's not rude. What is rude, is selling the idea that a woman in her forties or fifties has no wrinkles or lumps or bumps... I've got to the stage where I think no one should be allowed on TV without a Wile. E. Coyote type pause for the full details of work done on them. The SATC bits were quite funny. But really. Tom Cruise gay slurs? Slagging off people for drug and alcohol stuff? Slagging off 'The Tourist' just for the sake of it? Unnecessary. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 19, 2011 15:12:42 GMT
Which parts in particular did you find rude? Was it the bit about the special effects award going to the team who airbrushed the girls in the Sex and the City posters? Cos that's not rude. What is rude, is selling the idea that a woman in her forties or fifties has no wrinkles or lumps or bumps... I've got to the stage where I think no one should be allowed on TV without a Wile. E. Coyote type pause for the full details of work done on them. The SATC bits were quite funny. But really. Tom Cruise gay slurs? Slagging off people for drug and alcohol stuff? Slagging off 'The Tourist' just for the sake of it? Unnecessary. Didn't he try and mock Bruce Willis's movie career as well? I mean seriously, Bruce fucking Willis! The man is a global mega star. Gervais will be remembered for an embarrassing dance and a pretty dismal career after it...Bruce "yippee ki aye mutha fuckers" Willis will be remembered for killing the fuck out about 10.000.000 bad guys (who all deserved it).  AH |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 19, 2011 15:46:27 GMT
It's easy to make jokes by just slagging off people.
It takes a greater degree of wit and intellect to be funny without just slagging people off.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 19, 2011 16:46:26 GMT
Didn't he try and mock Bruce Willis's movie career as well? I mean seriously, Bruce fucking Willis! The man is a global mega star. He gets around, does Bruce. A few years ago I attended a Nuptial Mass at a Catholic church in Leiden. Bloody Norah, there he was, playing the parish priest! Wearing trainers! Later on, while I was having a beer with him at the reception, I was disappointed to find that he was not in fact Monsignor Willis, but only his Doppelgänger. [It's true about the trainers, and they weren't even black. That's the Dutch for you.] |
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