Joe Rogan explains why he loved Ricky Gervais\u2019 Golden Globes speech Joe Rogan couldn\u2019t get enough of Ricky Gervais\u2019 now-viral speech from the 77th annual Golden Globes awards, where the British comedian served up a brutal monologue about the wealthiest elites and corporations present in the room. In his fifth and final time hosting the Golden Globes, fans and attendees have come to expect some rather on-the-nose jokes from Gervais, who adopts a Don Rickles-style of insult comedy during his opening segments. However, for the 2020 ceremony, Gervais took things up a notch, and Joe Rogan couldn\u2019t stop laughing about the incredible speech on the latest episode of his podcast. Rogan was joined on 1406th episode of the Joe Rogan Experience by another comedian, Brian Redban, and the pair heaped praise on Gervais\u2019 bravery and comedic talents. Although he didn\u2019t watch the ceremony live, Rogan explained that, like millions of others, he saw the clips surfacing online from the Hollywood event. He particularly enjoyed when Gervais joked that celebrities shouldn\u2019t use their award speeches to make political statements. \u201cI was like \u2018thank you, thank you Ricky, thank you.\u2019 That guy, he\u2019s out there swinging from the hip, chin up, telling it like it is, I love it.\u201d Redban admired that Gervais had called out Apple for using \u201csweatshops\u201d \u2013 while the company\u2019s CEO, Tim Cook, sat in the crowd. \u201cDude, how crazy was that\u201d Rogan said, \u201che went after Apple, then he said if ISIS opened up a studio, you\u2019ll all be sending your resumes [\u2026] Good for him.\u201d The team then debated if Gervais had the speech pre-written, given that the production team had cuts to the audience prepared, but Rogan thinks the comedian may have just done his own thing. \u201cI don\u2019t know man, he\u2019s so badass, he might be able to do whatever he wants,\u201d he explained, \u201che\u2019s Ricky Gervais, he\u2019s got the ability to say \u2018oh, I\u2019ll do it, but I\u2019ll do it this way, and only this way\u2019 \u2013 and they\u2019re like \u2018ok Ricky, we love you.’\u201d Gervais has, perhaps unsurprisingly, had to bat down some critics of his monologue, with commentators on both sides of the political spectrum accusing him of leaning one way or the other. Responding, Gervais made clear that his mockery of those in the room that night was the furthest thing from \u2018right-wing\u2019, as some had suggested. How the fuck can teasing huge corporations, and the richest, most privileged people in the world be considered right wing? \ud83d\ude02 #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com\/rfXdGrZ41j \u2014 Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) January 6, 2020 At least we know Joe Rogan was a fan, as were plenty of others, with the clip of the speech having been watched millions and millions of times already, spreading like wildfire on social media. Perhaps, if fans are lucky enough, Rogan might get Gervais on his podcast, which has had numerous A-list celebrities on in the past. It would undoubtedly make for a legendary episode. Rogan and Gervais once appeared on a podcast together in 2014, the Opie & Anthony show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan explains why he loved Ricky Gervais\u2019 Golden Globes speech Joe Rogan couldn\u2019t get enough of Ricky Gervais\u2019 now-viral speech from the 77th annual Golden Globes awards, where the British comedian served up a brutal monologue about the wealthiest elites and corporations present in the room. In his fifth and final time hosting the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}