![]() ![]() I’m playing venues with tens of thousands. There’s a place for that but I also feel a responsibility. I don’t see the point of saying things the audience thinks themselves or can. Ricky Gervais: I think a comedian’s job is to make people laugh and think. I don’t want to go home and say, “That’s really awful, why did I say that? Everything is considered.” You can’t see that that’s also satirical.” You can’t win but you’ve got to know in your heart of hearts, if I can’t justify a joke’s okay, I don’t do the joke. I know a lot of people, this is not funny.” I want to go, “But you liked the jokes about children’s cancer, AIDS, Africa’s famine, so you knew I was joking then but when it comes to your thing, because it’s so personal, you can’t treat it with the same level of irony. Ricky Gervais: In my standup specials you get letters saying, “I love the show although I was a little bit disappointed with the reference to the holocaust. The personal lines Ricky Gervais won’t cross: I think the things I think are more timeless that I created in the beginning, I’d have had to invented the concept of awards ceremony to be as excited about them as I am about The Office or Extras. Ricky Gervais: There’s loads of things I do I don’t count as part of my career. Why hosting the Golden Globes doesn’t count as work: That’s what gives me the adrenaline rush, thinking it could be the end of my career. ![]() I like the jeopardy that it’s live and there’s a quarter of a billion people watching and a room full of the most powerful people in the world. There’s something in me that really is excited. The last thing I want to do is genuinely offend anyone. ![]() I think comedy comes from a good or a bad place. Ricky Gervais: I don’t think I was too bad. Ricky Gervais will be an even better host the second time: ![]()
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