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Post by mickmillslovechild on Jan 10, 2020 15:19:56 GMT
I'm in favour of the whole "woke bollocks" being called out, and agree smug award ceremonies for actors are ripe for shredding, i just think that accepting their dollar to do so, and accepting awards when they are presented to yourself, makes you a hypocrite. He's been happy to play their game for years, he's part of the problem in my eyes. Liking your avatar by the way
Which he agrees with and has been honest with re: him being no different to the rest in terms of privilege etc.
I think you've COMPLETELY missed the point of the entire purpose of his monologue to be honest...it wasn't to say "All you greedy celeb types are awful and terrible and i don't want to hear your opinion so shut up", the entire point of it was to say "All of us greedy celeb types should shut up with politics in speeches etc. in general as THE AUDIENCE AT HOME don't want to hear it and think it's hypocritical bollocks as we have no clue what the average person at home has to deal with day by day"...hence the reason he doesn't involve politics in his own acceptance speeches because he thinks they're grating for the general public sitting at home, as he's fully aware he's in a different position to most of us. He realised that years ago and it was a wake up call to those A-listers who still think they're god like figures so can preach to the rest of us. He referred to how long the show is a few times, as a way of pointing out how bored the audience at home usually are with these awards at the best of times and the fact it's only there for celebs to slap each others backs because most of the audience don't really give a shit (and he has done so at each of the previous 4). He even referred to a series about a man dying of cancer being more entertaining to watch, so they should shut up and get on with it....it's Ricky that's trying to point out that regardless of how much the celebs enjoy kissing each other's arses, it's on TV for the purpose of the audience at home, so think about them not your own wonderful celebrity status, entertain them and don't waste time preaching to them so we can all get home.
If Gervais preached politics in acceptance speeches, then he'd be a hypocrite...but he doesn't so he isn't. He wasn't criticising them for being rich or famous, he was criticising them for being rich, famous and seemingly thinking that simply because they're rich and famous, they can therefore preach on national TV (when the reason they're even on stage is because of a film about a comic book character or some shit, and literally nothing to do with politics) about which party is best, when in reality they are so far removed from Joe Public's day to day battles that they have no real clue. It's a simple message really; if you can't empathise with the public and their real lives, don't use your fame to try to influence THEIR politics, as you're coming from 2 different worlds and it's abusing your influence which they have no right to do. Just because he happens to be in that same world that the celebs are, doesn't make him a hypocrite for what he said at all.
He didn't at any point remove himself from it all or try to make out as if he was any better than the rest.
Everything else he did was simply "roasting" in the same way he's done it for the previous 4 years hosting the show, and was about those specific people he was roasting at the time and their individual "issues", so not hypocritical at all.
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