Ricky Gervais kicked off the Golden Globes by telling the audience his fifth time hosting would be his last, then proceeded to deliver an expletive-laced skewering of Hollywood's elites.
True to his reputation, Gervais opened the show on Sunday with a mix of evisceration and exasperation, pretending to confuse Joe Pesci for Baby Yoda, calling the Hollywood Foreign Press Association racist and declaring Netflix's takeover of Hollywood.
"Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg, so if you win, come up, accept your award, thank your agent and your God and off," he said, referring to the teen climate change activist. After another Weinstein joke that earned a sharp response toward the end of the broadcast, he snapped back at the crowd, "I didn't do it. You did it."
When some groaned about his joke about the former financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in jail after being arrested for allegedly sex trafficking girls, he responded: "Shut up. I know he's your friend."
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