Ricky Gervais isn’t always the most polite guy in the world. He tends to make fun of just about anyone he can. From the religious with his comments about the Bible, to A-List celebrities. He made a promise before the Golden Globe Awards he was hosting Sunday to give the A-listers a bit of a hard time and it appears he didn’t hold back.

Some of his material might have been just a little stale, but he had a few zingers worth note. Of course he pulled out a Mel Gibson DUI jab, which frankly is about as old as you can get. If you ever watch these award shows it is pretty funny seeing how much the presenters, those winning, and the host tend to drive a current even into the ground for a joke. By the time the final hour is underway you probably think that something that was in the news last week happened in 1983. It isn’t funny anymore other than the fact that those using the jokes are still trying to get laughs with them. IT is obvious that they aren’t in the comedy business. They still have plenty of Hollywood and New York jobs anyways so I guess I don’t feel too sorry for any of them.

Anyways, Gervaid went after a few celebs last night and got some mixed reviews.

Here are a few reactions:

The Associated Press called Gervais “cheeky, silly and funny as heck” for his gentle jabs at the Hollywood glitterati.

“It’s an honour to be here in a room full of what I consider to be the most important people on the planet – actors,” Gervais opened with. “They’re just better than ordinary people, aren’t they?”
Gossip website TMZ and Radar Online also praised the host, calling him “hysterical” and “on fire” with his material.

“Actors aren’t just loved here in Hollywood, they’re loved the world over, because they’re recognisable,” Gervais said.

“You can be in the Third World, and you get a glimpse of a Hollywood star, and it makes you feel better. You can be a little child, a little Asian child, with no possessions, no money – but you see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you think, ‘Mummy!’”.

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I don’t know about you, but seeing that La Toya Jackson actually believes she has what it takes to replace the legendary Simon Cowell on American Idol make me laugh like a little girl.

I mean this is LA TOYA JACKSON!. Who itheir right mind beleives she is even entertaining enough to interview, yet watch weekly on anything? Much less one of the most popular shows on television, and replace one of the most notorious TV personalities of all-time? Take an Orlando vacation and seek some help afterwards, lady.

I think TMZ probably gives you the general consensus on this whole fiasco.

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What a surprise. People love to take advantage of disasters to make money. While this isn’t anything like having a BS charity like Wycleff Jean has, scammers are working other ways to try and make some quick cash off the Haiti situation.

According to Fox News:

Charitable Americans eager to help the nation of Haiti recover from Tuesday’s devastating earthquake are being warned to be on the lookout for online scammers.

A number of “text to donate” services have been set up for people to make donations directly from their cell phones. But consumer advocates are warning that, as more are created, some may be phonies. It is hard to tell the difference unlike a tangible product such as natural weight loss products.

According to the Internet Storm Center, both of these “text to” options are legitimate services: “Both short codes in use right now, 501501 and 90999, are tracing back to registered twitter accounts and I consider them authentic at this point,” says the Center’s Johannes B. Ullrich — however, some charity watchdogs have raised doubts about the ability of Jean’s foundation to respond quickly to such an immediate and massive crisis, as well as about some of the foundation’s accounting practices.

Other text-to-donate services may arise, and not all of them will be trustworthy.

“Reports of Haitian ‘text to donate’ scams rising. Only give to orgs you recognize, have researched yourself or are referred by trusted source,” noted All Headline News in a post to Twitter.

The Better Business Bureau has already posted advice on its site for those hoping to donate to a legitimate charity. Art Taylor, president and CEO of the BBB’s Wise Giving Alliance, agrees that scammers tend to spring up in the wake of catastrophe.

“Whenever there is a major natural disaster, be it home or abroad, there are two things you can count on. The first is the generosity of Americans to donate time and money to help victims, and the second is the appearance of poorly run and in some cases fraudulent charities,” Taylor warns.

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IF you don’t know who Simon Fuller is, he is basically considered Cowell’s arch-rival for the month.

Fuller is pissed that Cowell is quitting American Idol after sealing a £100million deal to take the show to the US.

But he insisted that Idol will survive the TV star’s exit because the show has a “boxing-type” purity and is only about talented singers.

“I want Idol to be purely about talent,” stormed Fuller. “We’re not going to be led into the mud, we’re going to stay on our hill.” Too late…way to take the high road, and just nose dive straight into the mud bowl. Maybe you can say how all his guests are fat people and need belly fat reduction next?

But Fuller is known to resent Cowell’s success – and his livewire personality. “Fuller has got brains and instinct but has the personality of a wet weekend in Hastings,” said an insider, adding: “Cowell has the lot.”

Cowell has been nothing but complimentary of everyone still connected with American Idol. He released a statement saying how much he enjoyed his time on the show and wished them every success.

The source added: “This could get very messy.” Team Cowell last night refused to comment. A US telly source added: “It seems Mr Fuller has a lot of issues which he needs to work through.” US X Factor debuts in 2011 with Cowell as a judge and Cheryl Cole his probable sidekick.

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On the heels of a couple Golden Globe Awards, it is only natural to keep pounding Avatar into the ground.

Already streaking to well over $1 Billion in worldwide box office sales, Avatar has actually remained on top of the box office charts for an astounding 5th straight week with $41.3 Million in sales for the week. IF you pay attention to this stuff at all, that isn’t a very common occurrence. It really isn’t even that common to see a movie on top for more than a week usually with so many new movies coming every week.

Denzel Washington’s “Book of Eli” settled for the #2 spot for the weekend, opening with $31.6 million. It is a post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind and probably finding amazing ways of rheumatoid arthritis relief.

At #3 was Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones”, earning $17.1 million after expanding nationwide in its sixth weekend showing.

Avatar now has box office receipts of $491 Million in the U.S. placing it 3rd all time behind The Dark Knight ($533 Mil), and Titanic (Another Russel Crowe film that ended at $600.8 Mil). It passed Star Wars to slide into the top 3.

Avatar has amassed $1.606 Billion globally and will surely overtake Titanic’s $1.842 Billion worldwide tally within two weeks to become the highest grossing release in history (unadjusted for inflation).

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Ahh yes…movies that make a lot of money, but aren’t always seen as a “great” movie tend to win awards. It is not even a question anymore. Don’t get me wrong here…I am not saying that Avatar is a terrible movie or anything, but is it really deserving of some of the awards it won at the Golden Globes? Are these awards giving awards based on box office, or are they for the movie itself?

Avatar picked up two of the biggest Golden Globes last night. Best director for Cameron Crowe, as well as the most prestigious of them all, Best Movie Drama. That will get rid of blackhead pretty quickly.

Cameron won the same Golden Globe statuettes — and swept the Academy Awards — with his last feature film, 1997′s “Titanic,” whose worldwide gross of $1.85 billion could soon be eclipsed by “Avatar,” which has sold more than $1.6 billion in tickets around the world and shows scarce signs of slowing.

Cameron spent nearly five years making “Avatar,” employing a new filming system (that married human performances and computer-generated imagery) and more than a thousand visual effects artists to craft a distant moon inhabited by 10-foot-tall azure aliens. Cameron thanked the people who worked endless hours on “Avatar” for creating “every blade of grass and every creature in it” and producer Jon Landau singled out 20th Century Fox for “believing in blue people.”

With its box-office thrust and Golden Globes, “Avatar” heads into the final week of Oscar balloting (nomination votes are due Saturday) with more momentum than any of last year’s awards-jostling releases.

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If you have ever seriously thought abut celebrity charities for even a minute you probably already get what I am about to tell you. Celebrity charities are useless.

Don’t take that the wrong way. Celebrities ENDORSING a charity, and helping to raise money fro a charity are great. They can do much more than the average person to spread awareness, and convince more people to give than most.

What the biggest problem underlying these charities always seems to be is that they WASTE a ton of the the donations on needless expenses. Think about this for a minute. Why does a celebrity need their own charity to fight cancer? They don’t. They can just support an already formed cancer charity for a huge savings in administrative expenses. There are already charities set up for the same purpose. Why do they need another one for the same cause? They DO NOT.

What happens when a celeb stars a charity is that they get some financial benefits themselves for having their name on it. They can funnel money through ti to escape taxes, skim money out of it for extra tax free cash, and in the end piss away almost all of the money taken in to administrative fees.

Wyclef Jean is a prime example of this, and why using established charities already should be the way things are done. Wyclef Jean’s Haiti Foundation has come under scrutiny this week for this very reason. The charity is scamming, and wasting all of the donations it gets. Wyclef is gonna need the best under eye cream soon after someone gives him a black eye.

Undoubtedly, Jean’s celebrity helped draw in donors: He’s an internationally known musician from Haiti who won a Grammy with the Fugees and went on to a hugely successful solo career. But an analysis of the charity’s tax returns raises questions about how it has spent money in the past, with administrative expenses that appear to be higher than comparable charities and payments to businesses owned by the musician and a board member, including $100,000 for a performance by Jean at a 2006 benefit concert.

“It seems clear that a significant amount of the monies that this charity raises go for costs other than providing benefits to Haitians in need,” said Dean Zerbe, national managing director of Alliant Group, a tax services company, and the former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees charities.

“It brings real caution for donors that want to help in Haiti that they might want to take a harder look at this organization but also consider the significant number of charities that have been doing good work in Haiti that don’t have these question marks,” Zerbe said

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With Conan all but gone, and a pocket full of fat cash, the only thing left to do is make fun of Jay Leno for screwing him over in the first place.

Leno decided that after Kimmel went on a 10 minute rant dissing Leno earlier in the week that he would just bring him on his own show. Obviously, Kimmel isn’t going to just come on the show and kiss Leno’s ass like I’m sure Leno probably thought would happen. Leno seems to have made himself a lot of enemies the past few weeks, and I doubt Conan is going to be sending him any communion invitations anytime soon.

So…Leno has Kimmel do his 10 questions interview, or whatever he calls it (I never watch Leno, I’m not 60). Kimmel starts off rather tame, but on question 5 he gives LEno about as much torment as he can handle.

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With all the Leno vs. Conan stuff going on at this point, Conan is probably about ready to make a nice settlement instead of having to do the Tonight Show for the next 2 1/1 years.

O’Brien, who had a guaranteed contract for another two and a half years at a salary that has been reported to be $10 million to $20 million a year, is expected to get a settlement that will pay him more than $30 million. In addition, under the terms now on the table, he would win the right to start a new show at some other network, probably as early as September.

So…he will likely get around $30 Million and another huge deal from someone else such as Fox to start another show while slipping out the back window with his Michael Kors gloves and a bag of cash.

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Yes, people actually believe this. Why? Morons say that the controversy is going to draw in viewers for a short time. Wow. That is until they watch either of these shows, which are absolutely terrible now.

lol @ this:

“The Tonight Show” audience has thinned since O’Brien took over in June, allowing rival David Letterman on CBS to take the lead in the battle for late-night network viewers.

Analysts and industry executives think that NBC will put on a tried-and-true staple like “Law & Order” at 10 p.m. until they have new scripted programing in place. Some believe the move could boost NBC in the hot market for last-minute ad spots at the expense of its competitors.

“While we don’t anticipate that NBC’s ratings fall will completely reverse as they introduce new 10 p.m. programing and return Jay Leno to late-night, these changes could slightly impact NBC’s competitors who have gained relative share on the national and local level,” Michael Nathanson, an analyst with Bernstein, said in a research report.

It could also help NBC local stations’ performance.

“No doubt, a stronger 10 p.m. show could help the NBC station owner and negatively affect rival CBS, ABC and FOX local stations including owned and operated stations,” he said.

Dar…is this a 3rd grade class working on the situation? Conan may be getting a $10 Million check by phone buyout soon if they don’t figure this out. What a screw job.

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