{"id":2230354,"date":"2026-01-11T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2230354"},"modified":"2026-01-11T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:02:33","slug":"celebrities-who-didnt-find-ricky-gervais-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrities-who-didnt-find-ricky-gervais-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Who DIdn&#8217;t Find Ricky Gervais Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ricky Gervais only hosted the Golden Globe Awards five times between 2010 and 2020, yet people still talk about his jokes more than anything else that\u2019s happened in the history of the ceremony. His shots at Hollywood\u2019s elite have become the stuff of legend, and continue to resurface online around this time every year. But while most of the people involved took it in stride, the comedian did manage to ruffle a fair number of feathers in the process. Here are a few celebs who didn\u2019t appreciate Gervais\u2019s brand of humor at the time (including some who weren\u2019t even targeted by him).\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tim-allen-and-tom-hanks\">TIM ALLEN AND TOM HANKS<\/h2>\n<p>Gervais has admitted that the one joke he regretted from his second hosting gig in 2011 was one at Tim Allen\u2019s expense. At that year\u2019s ceremony, the comic introduced Allen and Tom Hanks <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=33ozHrZRySw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like so<\/a>: \u201cWhat can I say about our next two presenters? The first is an actor, producer, writer, and director whose movies have grossed over three-and-a-half billion dollars at the box office. He\u2019s won two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes for his powerful and varied performances, starring in such films as Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Apollo 13, and Saving Private Ryan. The other\u2026is Tim Allen.\u201d When the pair took the stage, Hanks started out by saying, \u201cLike many of you, we recall back when Ricky Gervais was a slightly chubby, but very kind comedian,\u201d after which Allen quipped, \u201cNeither of which is he now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Allen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/01\/06\/tim-allen-fine-with-being-butt-of-ricky-gervais-only-regretted-golden-globes-joke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Page Six<\/a> that he thought Gervais was \u201cpretty sharp\u201d at the 2020 Golden Globes, he wasn\u2019t impressed with the joke in question from 2011. \u201cPerhaps I didn\u2019t get it\u2026I wasn\u2019t the only one. Tom and I even said, \u2018I didn\u2019t really get it. It\u2019s like he didn\u2019t finish the joke. It just went flat.\u2019\u201d As for Hanks\u2019s thoughts on Gervais\u2019s 2020 performance, he looked visibly uncomfortable throughout the opening monologue as the comedian joked about Felicity Huffman\u2019s college admissions scandal, the Hollywood Foreign Press being racist, and celebrities lecturing people at award shows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-savage-platform-youtube-placeholder\" data-component=\"youtube-placeholder\">\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play video<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/LCNdTLHZAeo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ricky Gervais&#039; Monologue - 2020 Golden Globes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LCNdTLHZAeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ricky Gervais&#039; Monologue - 2020 Golden Globes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LCNdTLHZAeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-robert-downey-jr\">ROBERT DOWNEY JR.<\/h2>\n<p>Gervais also successfully rubbed Robert Downey Jr. the wrong way at the 2011 Golden Globes. While <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNRx2oH4Ors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introducing<\/a> the Iron Man star, Gervais joked that many of the people in the crowd \u201cprobably know him best from such facilities as the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County Jail.\u201d Addressing the audience afterward, Downey Jr. said, \u201cAside from the fact, uh, that it\u2019s been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I\u2019d say the vibe of the show is pretty good so far, wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d The actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2011-jan-17-la-et-globes-ricky-gervais-20110117-25-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elaborated<\/a> on his feelings in a backstage interview as well, explaining, \u201cI think it\u2019s great to be funny, but it\u2019s just better if you can do it without hurting people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-james-franco\">JAMES FRANCO<\/h2>\n<p>In a 2011 interview <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shortlist.com\/news\/james-franco-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with Shortlist<\/a>, James Franco said that although he thought Gervais was a \u201cgreat comedian,\u201d he wasn\u2019t a fan of his Golden Globes jokes or the fact that he was so unapologetic after the fact. Franco went on to say, \u201cPeople in the movie business live very good lives and they should be made fun of every once in a while. But when it\u2019s an event where you\u2019ve been asked to host and it\u2019s a celebration, it just doesn\u2019t seem like the right context. He should do that kind of thing on his show. If he\u2019s been asked to participate in something where he\u2019s supposed to celebrate people, don\u2019t bring that kind of humor in. It just doesn\u2019t fit and it\u2019s bad taste for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bill-burr\">BILL BURR<\/h2>\n<p>Surprisingly, one of Gervais\u2019s own contemporaries, Bill Burr, wasn\u2019t wowed by his performances either. Burr also acknowledged that he found his fellow comedian\u2019s jokes funny, but didn\u2019t think that Gervais deserved any \u201cedgy points.\u201d As he put it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8T6ZOEw6vIM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to Joe Rogan<\/a>, \u201cYou fucking get a staff of writers to write roast jokes to sling them at people armed with acceptance speeches? It\u2019s like, and then what do you do, go down and fucking start slapping around some first graders?\u201d Furthermore, he said, \u201cIf you didn\u2019t wanna do the gig, if you don\u2019t like celebrities, and you think they f\u2014\u2013g suck, what are doing at their award show with a fucking tuxedo on?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t\t\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\t\t\t\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\t\t\t\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\t\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '782589578427709');\n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vice.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais only hosted the Golden Globe Awards five times between 2010 and 2020, yet people still talk about his jokes more than anything else that\u2019s happened in the history of the ceremony. His shots at Hollywood\u2019s elite have become the stuff of legend, and continue to resurface online around this time every year. 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