Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais kicked off the 77th annual awards show by telling the night’s soon-to-be winners not to use their acceptance speeches to make political statements.
“So, if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?” the actor and comedian said during his opening monologue. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
He added, “If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God, and f— off.”
Gervais, 58, also roasted the audience full of celebrities by asking them, “If ISIS started a stream service, you would call your agent, wouldn’t you?”
In 2017, actress Meryl Streep famously used her nearly six-minute acceptance speech to attack President Trump while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Trump himself later criticized her remarks and called her an “overrated” actress, an insult she proudly accepted.
