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Golden Globes 2020: Ricky Gervais's best jokes and other highlights

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter
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From the moment Ricky Gervais walked on stage at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, it was clear he was taking no prisoners.

"If you win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech," he advised the stars 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."

Several winners ignored his advice completely (more on their speeches in a sec), but that didn't stop the British comedian going all out as he fronted the ceremony for the fifth and apparently final time.

Here are a few of his best jokes, along with five other highlights from this year's ceremony.

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1. Ricky Gervais reclaimed his throne

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When Ricky Gervais first hosted the Globes in 2010, his cutting comments and sarcastic style provided a master class in ridiculing celebrities and set a blueprint for the ceremony's future hosts.

This year, he sensibly pre-empted the inevitable social media outrage over his politically incorrect gags by telling the audience: ", they're just jokes. We're all going to die soon, and there's no sequel."

Here are a few of his best:

  • "I came here in a limo tonight and the licence plate was made by Felicity Huffman."
  • "Martin Scorsese said the Marvel films remind him of theme parks. I don't know what he's doing hanging around theme parks - he's not big enough to go on the rides."