Oddly enough I pay almost no attention to awards shows. Especially stuff like the Golden Globes, which honestly I don’t even know if it is one of the bigger awards shows, or just a knockoff. I hear it is the latter.

Anyways, Gervais is getting more press than I can remember in the U.S. right now. Both good and bad. People all “excited” to jump on the bandwagon saying he was hilarious, or others saying he was offensive. He was neither.

All his jokes were low hanging fruit that have been covered countless times by other comedians in the last 10 years. Shocking he didn’t throw a Michael Jackson joke in there. Maybe I missed it. I only watched the clips of him from the show on Youtube.

Gervais has a lot of material in the past and I guess this is good for him as many are going to see it now. While the show was more or less “meh” to me either way it did remind me of this hilarious clip. Complete with Holocaust, necrophelia, and fat guys needing the best weight loss pills. You’ll see when you watch why any of those should be a clue that this Globes performance probably wasn’t unexpected.

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!’”.

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.