Ricky Gervais Hits Every Target in Golden Globes Monologue

British comic and provocateur Ricky Gervais delights in making people nervous with anticipation for his Golden Globes monologues. After hosting in 2010, 2011, and 2012, Gervais took his fourth go-round Sunday night, and couldn’t even wait for the show to begin to start offending people. Several hours before the show, Gervais sent this eye-opening tweet as an offensive amuse bouche, if you will:

Better get dressed and offend some humourless cunts I suppose. pic.twitter.com/X4idHHuMMf

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) January 10, 2016

The monologue didn’t quite reach that level of explicitness, but Gervais did stick to his usual mix of lowbrow sexual humor, broadsides at the awards themselves, shocking jabs like his comparison of Pixels to Schindler’s List, and red-hot topical jokes like the Sean Penn interview with El Chapo.

As expected, Gervais’ monologue featured more references to sex organs than a biology textbook as written by Penthouse Letters contributors (I never thought mitosis really happened to normal guys until… ), and was equally as funny.

Watch the full monologue above, from NBC.

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