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Ricky Gervais In Talks To Have Talks To Host THE OSCARS??
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Ricky Gervais, hot from his show-stopping on-air tussle with Steve Carell over an Emmy statue, is reportedly being sought to meet the Oscars’ just-named producers about hosting the movie-award telecast.
Find all of the Entertainment Weekly’s story on the matter here.
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fuck yeah its pussy time
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Sep 25, 2008 12:46:45 AM CDT
Didn't they learn from the catastophry that was the VMA's?
by palpeedude
I know it's ridiculous to compare Ricky to that "mangina" but British humor doesn't translate to American humor. Just look at the vast difference in the two different Office shows. One is fun and the other is absolutely hilarious. The British must be thinking the same thing in reverse. I love Ricky but not to host the Oscars. However, I am positive he would do a LOT better than Letterman. Can I get an AMEN!?!?!
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Sep 25, 2008 12:54:44 AM CDT
Nick Frost as Oscar host. Simon Pegg as Oscar parasite.
by stereotypical evil archer
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Ricky Gervais is genius.Though, expect John Q. Public to hate him and think, "I can't understand a word he's saying."
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Maybe Carl Pilkington can present the lifetime achievement award to a monkey.
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What a smug irritating little bastard Gervais has become.
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Then at least we'd be assured of a good laugh, probably at his expense.
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A thousand times YES!
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let him do the baftas first or something without much note. don't drop him into the kodak theatre and watch him drown.
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The man saved the Emmys...that award show was like a wino's piss...diseased! Ricky was surely the star that night. I think he will do a great Job on the Oscars...can't see how it could go wrong...I mean, the Oscars is a farce of a show anyway with zero importance...an actress who wins an award tends to disappear from our screens fast!!! The actors follow up their wins with 30 bombs! And no-one gives a shit about best song! Its all a farce. And before some anal nerd goes "But what about him and what about her" - I generalise of course.
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This may be the first Oscar ceremony in years I just record so I can fast forward past the host's stuff. No way can I take 3 hours of Gervais. He's okay on his shows, but this is wrong for him (and Ghost Town sucked)
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America steals Gervais. Lets keep him, because our comedy needs a shot in the arm.
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Oh it's Gervais' ego going supernova in the stratosphere!!Don't get me wrong, I think he can funny as hell, and I loved 'Extras', but this will be car crash TV i'm sure of that.It'll make the whole Uma/Oprah catastrophe look like high art!!
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.. it bombed so hard that even here in POLAND earth shook.
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I dont' understand people thinking he's arrogant really, yes he plays it like that to the camera but as far as i can see it's all part of the joke. I mean look at his stand up "fame" and his series "extras". Both of them deal with the issue of fame and the ego that comes with it, and both of them mock it. I don't see how Gervais could do a show like extra's, where the main character becomes famous and a jerk, but learns his lesson at the end. Whilst in real life becoming a famous jerk who hasn't learnt his lesson yet. :-/
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Sep 25, 2008 5:47:40 AM CDT
They don't even try to make the Oscars entertaining anymore.
by derlanghaarige
But at least it's not Seth Rogen.
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Anyone who's seen Ricky's stand up would know how unbelievably funny he can be in front of a crowd. This is the best pick for Oscar host I've heard in a long time. The haters have no sense of humour, end of story.
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Is very funny, but he is not the type of comedian who the Hollywood community would enjoy.
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Oh wait, the US version is better. And isn't this douche in some Sixth Sense comedy rip off now? And British humor is better because...oh yeah, Spaced, because all the nerds love that mediocre shit.
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That would be edgy....
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Just so he could do the bit about terminally ill people as stuntmen. Heh heh. We miss ya Bill.
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Or try Conan O'Brian!
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Snarky comment..uncomfortable pause while staring mouth agape at the audience..repeat.
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Do you enjoy being a stupid cunt?
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Hope it turns out to be true, he'd be great.
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He'd never do it, but can you imagine Larry David hosting the Oscars?
Sloppy clothes, sneakers, complete bitterness and contempt for everyone in the room. Multiple references to "Sour Grapes." Leon Black. It must happen. -
I might actually watch.
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Sep 25, 2008 12:49:46 PM CDT
Did everyone forgot how he was one of the few bright spots durin
by lovecraftfan
Its funny they manage to pick someone potentially exciting to host the Oscars and people still bitch.
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She is so experienced, she can see a movie theatre from her house.
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I dont have enough time to get into it but you're a prick for saying that the us version is funnier yada yada yada, frankly you're prick. see ya!
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Behind Don Rickles' acceptance speech. But I'm a bit biased, I've been a Rickles fan for years. Gervais could work, but that Oscar gig is typically not good for one's career.
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If necessary. GERVAISE SHOULD HOST THE BAFTAS.GERVAISE SHOULD HOST THE BAFTAS.GERVAISE SHOULD HOST THE BAFTAS.GERVAISE SHOULD HOST THE BAFTAS. and not that ass kisser ross. though Norton wasnt bad.
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That would EXACTLY be what a Gervais Oscar-hosting stint would be like. Lots of awkward pauses, "ew" faces and shrugs.
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But Billy Crystal is tops for me. He bring real showmanship and entertainment.
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little bastard. but a talented one. Anyone see that new heroes of comedy. Gervais is a comedy bully. no really he is. He initiated the editor into the group by grabbing him really hard in a headlock and by getting Stephen Merchant to pin him down and put sellotape around his face and calling him pig boy. This no bs either. Sellotaping anyone's face is dangerous. That is how far Gervais will go to get a laugh. Those flannimal books are weird. I heard that ITV paid a huge amount for the rites.
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retired. He wont becoming back. He was the greatest oscar host of his generation. Really great. But not even the great billy crystal can saved the Oscars. Leno will do it. when he leaves The tonight show. and then retire.....or go racing.
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Sep 25, 2008 3:24:24 PM CDT
I can't tell if the Shandling/Gervais thing was scripted...
by christopher3
And apparently neither can anyone else.
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There.
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Slimy and repellant.
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and slimy
disgusting he's -
Umaaaa....Opraaaaa....Opraaaa......Umaaaaa. Classic.
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Carell is sitting stone faced while his wife is shitting herself laughing. And at the end he produces an Emmy from under his seat..Ummmmmmmmm DUH!Granted, I did like the "did you see Ghost Town, no? I saw Evan Almighty give me my Emmy."
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Your comments were supremely funny. Three's Company was better than Monty Python also...
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Word.
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He's got a head like a fucking orange!
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Well, it worked for the Emmy Awards, didn't it? ...For example: Mary Hart, Billy Bush, Lara Spencer, Pat O'Brien, Nancy O'Dell. All familiar faces, all beloved.
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Ricky Gervais interviewed Garry Shandling for a TV special. The results were somewhat peculiar to say the least... I'm sure the whole thing's on YouTube if you look.
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If not him, then Hugh Laurie or Stephen Fry
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This would be great news for the Oscars if Ricky decided to do the hosting duties. Completely different change of pace and perhaps Larry David could do a skit with Ricky as well! Enough with the cornball Billy Crystal shtick please. Perhaps if Gervais hosts will will actually get to see the people who win the award get to speak their whole acceptance speeches instead of rudely getting cut off every single time! The producers of these shows all make the same mistake and think we want to see some type of time chewing montage, an over the top song and dance number opening, retarded theme movie showing all the actors that ever played Cowboys or some shit! That takes time away from why we tune in, to see who get's the awards and what they say when they get them. As for the comment that Hollywood "doesn't get" Ricky Gervais? That's why he managed to get all of those stars to be in his Extras's show. As for the US version of The Office being funnier than the original, you have got to be kidding me! The US version pales in comparison, and for me is unwatchable.
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Oct 02, 2008 12:30:14 PM CDT
oh please no..well, actually, that'd be the first year I 'd be g
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