The 2011 Golden Globes Awards took place in Hollywood last night and there was a few surprises with the winners list, mainly The Social Network taking the award for Best Motion Picture instead of Black Swan. You can see the full winners list after jump because I don’t really want to talk about. Here is what I want to talk about:
Yes, Ricky Gervais‘s opening monologue which he pretty much went in on everyone in Hollywood and I loved every second of it. I’m sure there is probably a number of hits out on his head today.
The best one for me is when he decided to crack a joke at Tom Cruise and John Travolta, after saying Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor played two gay characters in “I Love You Philip Morris”, he then said “the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then.”
It was a good start to the show and really the only bit that I cared about, if these celebrities can’t take being made fun of then they are definitely in the wrong business.
Whenever I tell people that I don’t drive I usually get funny looks as if I’m crazy, I just tell them that I don’t need a car because the public transport is good enough where I live and driving just doesn’t interest me in the slightest. People put together a list of 6 celebrities that also don’t drive….
Carey Mulligan, 25, never wanted to drive, but had to learn for her recent movie, Never Let Me Go. “I always thought I’d crash,” Mulligan told PEOPLE at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I worked with a driver during awards season and he used to give me lessons on the side so that’s how I got it together.”
Daniel Radcliffe,21, who just learned to drive last year, was so determined to get his license that he opted to take lessons in the quiet English countryside instead of the congested streets of London.
Robert Pattinson confessed he doesn’t exactly know his way around a car to Ellen DeGeneres. “I don’t actually know how to drive. It’s absolutely terrifying,” he told the talk show host while admitting he does drive himself around L.A. “I don’t know how to use the little wipey thing on the windscreen, so I couldn’t see out of the windscreen.”
Amy Winehouse, 27, declared that she wanted driving lessons on her Twitter account.
Vincent Kartheiser, 31, takes two buses or the L.A. Metro to the set of his Emmy winning AMC show. “Instead of driving and being stressed out about traffic, you can work your scene, you can do your exercises or whatever on the bus,” Kartheiser told The New York Times recently.
Ricky Gervais, 49, needs to find new ways to spend his fortune since he doesn’t have a license. “I don’t drive so I haven’t bought a flash car,” he has said.
Other celebrities that aren’t on this list that can’t drive are Christina Aguilera, Robbie Williams, Ozzy Osbourne and Courtney Love .
Happy Friday! Once again, we’ve got the best of the best in celebrity quotes this week! Jessica Simpson talks about farting (gasp!), Bruce Willis pays homage to Lady Gaga with his meat hat and Snooki is lusting after a makeout session with Lance Bass.
“He was sitting at the end of the bed, and he had no clothes on whatsoever…He was all tan. Has all those tattoos – which I love.…And I thought, ‘You done good, girl.’ I sure wasn’t thinking of his high-pitched voice.”
– Victoria Beckham, on what she admires about her husband David, to Marie Claire
“This link just made my morning! RT @OMGFacts: The average person farts about 14 TIMES each day!”
– Jessica Simpson, on Twitter
“My husband thinks it’s so odd that so many women hit on me. Gay men too. They say to me, ‘Well, I’m not straight, but if I was…’”
– Christina Hendricks, on her surprising mass appeal, to Harper’s Bazaar
“I’m far from SKINNY….but I’m at least far from Shamu…no insult to Shamu intended.”
– Kirstie Alley, after shedding the first 50 lbs. of her 90-lb. weight-loss goal, on her new diet program, Organic Liason
“My teen crush was Lance Bass. But then he [revealed he] was gay, and I was like, ‘Awww.’ But he’s still so hot. I would still make out with him.”
– Snooki, to People
“It’s a 100% ground beef sirloin. Top shelf, organic.”
– Bruce Willis, sporting his own Lady Gaga-inspired meat hairpiece, of which David Letterman took a bite out of on his late-night show
“Now I’ve got to stop making jokes about fat people, which is annoying. When I was fat, it was okay.”
– Ricky Gervais, on the downside of losing 20-plus pounds, to People
“My breasts are saggy, I’ve got cellulite, my hips are bigger, but I love it.”
– Jessica Alba, embracing her post-baby body, to British GQ
“I married my first husband because we wanted to sleep together. It lasted six months and we were in bed for six months.”
– Betty White, on why her first marriage didn’t last, to AARP
“It would’ve been no good for me meeting the right person 10 years ago because I was still a lunatic. Not to mention that Katy was 15.”
– Russell Brand, who’s grateful he got to clean up his act before meeting fiancée Katy Perry, to People
Perez Hilton passes on speculation that Ricky Gervais, who starred in the British original version of “The Office,” will reprise his role of David Brent and replace Steve Carrell on the American version of the show.
THIS is brilliant!
And frankly, it’s the only plausible way to keep the show going after Steve Carell signs off in May!
Now that the actor plans to retire his character, Michael Scott, on the HIGHlarious show The Office, producers are scrambling to figure out how exactly to continue the series in his absence, and they’re reportedly toying with the idea of bringing in the man that started it all – Ricky Gervais’ horiffically uncomfortable David Brent from the original, UK series!
Effing AMAZING! Inspired!
And think about the built-in fanbase that would tune in just to see Gervais play that awful character again! It would COMPLETELY revive the series!
Executive Producer Paul Lieberstein is toying with the idea, and says:
“We talked about it today for a while. It’s not the leading idea… [but] it’s not a dead idea. I don’t know how David Brent could take Michael Scott’s place because it would be a little bit too much of a coincidence that a documentary crew was also following him. He was also fired for incompetence [in the U.K. Office], so we’d have to create some back story for what happened. There would be some things to deal with. On the flip side, you have someone who’s incredibly talented and who has played with a level of realism that’s the same as our show. It wouldn’t be like we would be taking a character from Cheers, like Norm, and putting him in the show. If Dunder Mifflin needed to replace Michael Scott, they’d consider both internal and external candidates. And we will show them considering both. We’ll kind of start [the replacement process] and put it in motion. I don’t want Steve to go, and if he decides he wants to stay, I will be very happy with that.”
And Gervais himself seems to be against it, but who the eff knows if he’s serious or not when he says:
“As David Brent would say, ‘Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt …’ As I would say, ‘Why would I get up at 6 a.m. five days a week for seven years when I can hire someone else to do that and still get my syndication money?’”
We think they SERIOUSLY need to consider this option if they want to keep the show alive!
That Gervais is denying the rumor doesn’t make it untrue. Regardless, I agree with Hilton that the idea is “brilliant” and “inspired.”
For whatever reason, while I very much enjoy Carell’s other work — and love Dilbert and the “Office Space” movie — I’ve never liked “The Office.” The characters just fall flat for me and the plots seem contrived. But I realize that’s a minority view.
And, in any case, Gervais is an extraordinarily talented fellow and completing the circle in this way would be a classic move.
So did you all watch the 67th Golden Glove Awards last night? I did and surprisingly I actually thought it was pretty good. Ricky Gervais did a great job at hosting the ceremony.
Let’s take a look at the list of winners shall we? ….
Best Actor Television, Drama- Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Best Supporting Actor Television, Drama- John Lithgow, Dexter
Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture- Mo’nique, Precious
Best Animated Feature Film- Up
Best Original Song, Motion Picture- Crazy Heart, “The Weary Kindâ€
Best Original Score, Motion Picture- Up, Michael Giacchino
Best Actress Television, Drama- Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Best Actress Television Series, Comedy- Toni Collette- United States of Tara
Best Actress Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Actor Mini-series, Drama- Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Best Actress Mini-series- Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture- Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Actor Television, Comedy- Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television- Grey Gardens
Best Foreign Language Film- The White Ribbon
Best Television Series Drama- Mad Men
Best Supporting Actress Mini-series- Chloe Sevigny, Big Love
Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture- Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Bastards
Best Director Motion Picture- James Cameron, Avatar
Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical- Glee
Best Actor Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Best Actor Motion Picture, Drama- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress Motion Picture, Drama- Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Motion Picture, Cmomedy or Musical- The Hangover
Best Motion Picture, Drama- Avatar
None of these really surprise me but I don’t think Avatar is the best drama movie, my vote would have been for Up In The Air or The Hurt Locker. Then again these ceremonies are usually all about money. What are your thoughts on the winners?
source: 2010 Golden Globes Full Winners List & Photos [Allie Is Wired]
As we all know the end of the decade is upon us and there is lists from everything to do with the best pornstars to the best plates of this decade. So carrying on in this fashion, here is the top 10 best stand-up comedians.
With a cultishly popular MTV show (Human Giant), a flourishing stand-up career, a scene-stealing turn in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, and a blog he actually posts on regularly, it’s only fitting that twentysomething comic Aziz Ansari make our list. Whether he’s hanging with idol Kanye West or bloodying up Ted Leo as “Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru,†Ansari stays connected to the music world while taking us all on the highway to the comedy zone. And watch out, entertainment journos; Ansari recently started writing articles for the likes of Interview. Besides, who else can lay claim to literally being the A to Z of comedy?
Mitch Hedberg was a master at relating simple observational ironies to his audience. His stand-up routine could’ve been achingly unfunny in someone else‘s hands, but an atonal, stream-of-consciousness delivery teased an almost confessional humor out of life’s idiosyncrasies. His death from a drug overdose in 2005 only added to his mystique, transforming him into a cult comedy icon.
Eugene Mirman’s dozens of online video clips and his three brilliant standup albums this decade—along with the work of peers like Zach Galifianakis and Patton Oswalt—have taken comedy in a bold new, hilariously absurd direction. Mirman is the undisputed king of the perfectly executed non-sequitur (“This is a bag of dandelions! These aren’t chicken strips at all!â€), an expert lampooner of all things pop-cultural (check the Mötley Crüe Behind the Music clip at Eug-Tube), and a master at adapting angry screeds to soulless corporations into stage plays. Plus, he’s a Maxim-magazine-certified “sexpert.â€
No one has can pull off the role of the oblivious blowhard like Gervais. The Office showcased his knack for playing a self-important ass, and his brilliant BBC series Extras extracted hilarious performances out of the biggest stars in show business. But the real surprise is how his stand-up comedy sometimes even surpasses his character acting. Emily Riemer
Like more than a couple funny people on this list, Silverman specializes in the thorniest of topics—race. The woman who once delivered a bit about Martin Luther King just couldn’t help herself, even in the get-out-the-vote video below, which mixes earnest enthusiasm for Obama with wicked jokes about ethnicity.
David Cross is alternative comedy‘s renaissance man. He cut his teeth on HBO’s wildly subversive Mr. Show with co-creator Bob Odenkirk, a fellow traveler in L.A.‘s mid-nineties standup circuit. Cross spent the next decade and a half headlining tents at festivals and appearing in music videos with Yo La Tengo and the New Pornographers, becoming indie-dom’s patron saint of irony. He’s played cultural critic, antagonist and slaughterer of sacred cows on two stand-up albums to date (released on Sub Pop, natch), the first of which earned a Grammy nod. And in 2003, he pulled his analrapist stocking over his head for a turn as Tobias Fünke in the now-legendary Arrested Development.
Although he first hit it big in the ‘90s, Rock became comedy royalty in the 2000s. While he was making fluffy, mainstream films like Madagascar, he never shied away from edgy comedy, and his HBO specials and stand-up appearances from the 2000s are among his best, sharply skewering black culture, politics and even Oprah.
I’m not a big fan of stand-up comedy, but the first time I heard a Patton Oswalt bit I immediately felt a deep, emotional bond with that round little man. His rant about KFC’s Famous Bowls—which I’d lamented over with friends but never so eloquently as his definition: “a failure pile in a sadness bowlâ€â€”has become kind of an annoying Thing (even to him, I think—when I saw him in February, he chastised a guy for requesting it between jokes), but it perfectly encapsulates what I love about him. Oswalt has this deep sense of cultural shame that radiates outward but also pierces deep into his own psyche—he knows how ridiculous everything is, but knows, too, he’s no better than anyone else. He’s funnier than just about everyone else, though, so that helps a lot.
In 2008, we described Zach Galifianakis’ act thusly: “a mix of the hyper-intelligent and the low-brow—blink-and-you’ll-miss-them absurdist nuggets. Sometimes the joke is simply the mispronunciation of a word, other times it’s in pushing a button that’s particularly taboo with his audience.†Since then, the dude’s blown up a little bit, starring in blockbuster movies (The Hangover) and critically acclaimed television (HBO’s Bored to Death), while having many an awkward moment on his web series, Between Two Ferns. Did we mention he’s got a beard that just won’t quit? Catch him live if and when you can.
The funniest man of the decade spent some well-documented time off the grid, then emerged from seclusion to assure everyone that he wasn’t crazy, a crackhead or a crazy crackhead. It’s no wonder speculation was so intense: When he stepped into the spotlight—whether on his side-splitting Comedy Central show or in a stand-up setting—Dave Chappelle was supernaturally magnetic. You couldn’t take your eyes off him, couldn’t stop laughing, and couldn’t help yourself from watching to see which taboo he’d skewer next. Race was his specialty, as evidenced in the clip below, which contains his immortal “Terrorists do not take black hostages†bit.
I’m not a big fan of Stand-Up but this list is pretty spot on in my opinion. Thoughts?
source: The 10 Best Comedians of the Decade (2000-2009) [Paste]
TGIF! This week’s celebrity news brought us some pretty funny quotes. We’ve got Nick Jonas commenting on his murse, David Letterman taking a jab at Tiger Woods and himself, along with Russell Brand and his womanizing ways.
“I’m not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It’s like a man purse. It’s a whole thing.”
– Nick Jonas, admitting that he also gets pedicures, on It’s On with Alexa Chung
“I wish he would stop calling me for advice.”
– Recent tabloid headliner David Letterman, taking a jab at his replacement, Tiger Woods, on his late show
“He knows every song, every word, every step, and he wants to wear all the costumes.”
– Madonna, sharing her son David Banda’s admiration for Mom’s music with the British morning show GMTV
“But what can you do with George Clooney? George Clooney is one of the most handsome, best actors in the world and is nice to everyone. It’s like going at Mother Teresa.”
– Ricky Gervais, on promising not to target notorious jokester and charitable actor George Clooney as host of this year’s Golden Globes, to People
“There’s been way higher mountains than you in my past.”
– The 5 ft. 4 in. Seth Green, to the 5 ft. 11 in. Wendy Williams, on dating taller women
“He told me I looked good, but I’d look better if I had a personal trainer.”
– Colin Firth, crediting his trimmer physique to Single Man director Tom Ford, to The New York Times
“I told him he was fat.”
– Tom Ford, recalling a slightly different conversation with Firth, to the NYT
“Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I’ll be eating it,”
– Eva Longoria Parker, revealing her food vice, to People
“You try to pretend like you’re paying attention to your family, but in the meantime, you’re like “Grandma, can you pass the gravy? I’M OPEN!”
– Ray Romano, on the challenges of watching football during holiday meals, on Live! With Regis and Kelly
“The girls with the bigger…”
– Modern Family’sSofÃa Vergara, giving a new perspective on the age old question of whether blondes or brunettes have more fun, on Rachael Ray
“I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough – to get the right one.”
– Russell Brand, on dating his way to current girlfriend Katy Perry to British morning show GMTV
It was that time of the year, the Golden Globes were televised last night, and celebrities were dressed to the nine’s for the event. Well, most of them were.
Vanessa Hudgens looked cute in her dress and pearls, but the annoying thing about her was how much swag she walked away with. Vanessa reportedly had her assistant lugging home four bags full of gifts with her, totaling a whopping $12,000!
Swag is one way for advertisers to boost sales for their product. The celebrity takes a photo with the item and gets to keep one for themselves. How much time do you think Vanessa spent in the gifting lounges? Five hours?
She reportedly made off with a one-year pass for her and a pal to a AMC Theaters, a BlackBerry Pearl, a coffee machine, a $4,000 diamond pendant, designer clutches, a year-long gym membership and more.
Clint Eastwood took the old Hollywood approach and opted out of the gifting lounges. Ricky Gervais said he only wanted a pair of sunglasses.
Vanessa Hudgens made out like a bandit, but she wasn’t the only one. “Mad Men’s” January Jones also took home $10,000 worth of gifts, while Samaire Armstrong took home a $4,500 necklace.
With the economy in shambles and big CEO’s getting all kinds of taxpayer money, it’s a shame that celebrities are allowed to brag about the stuff they get for free. Tacky.
