Ricky Gervais Puts the Gold in Golden Globes
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The Golden Globes just got a whole lot funnier.
One of our favorite awards shows—it has movies and TV!—just tapped one of our favorite stars—he's done movies and TV!—to host.
No, it's not Neil Patrick Harris. The Office originator, Ricky Gervais, will be donning a penguin suit, looking handsome and leading the charge of statuettes handed out at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17.
He'll be taking the reins from, well, no one.
Ricky Gervais Shares His Favorite Private Game
Last night while President Obama was telling jokes and talking business on Letterman, the real late-night party was over on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, where Ricky Gervais taught us all a new game.
It's called Awful Jim Jam and involves that strategically placed hole in men's pajamas and then, well, Mr. Gervais does a much better job at explaining it than we ever could:
"You can play it with your wife or girlfriend or mom, I don't know where you live. You pull out a little bit of skin, you don't give anything away and you go to your girlfriend, 'C--k or ball?'"
Sounds fun? The British comedian also gave Conan an ugly makeover for his rickygervais.com blog, where Ricky keeps all his own ugly photos, and cried. You know, just a typical late-show appearance promoting a new movie (that movie happens to be The Invention of Lying, btw).
And yes, there's more of the Gervais-Conan experience after the jump...
Sean Penn Put In His Place
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Sean Penn already knows how difficult he makes it to appreciate him. Luckily, it's not nearly as difficult to cast him.
Continuing his post-Oscar, postseparation acting windfall, Penn is in talks to star in This Must Be the Place, according to Variety.
Not one to fall prey to typecasting, this time around Penn plays a wealthy and increasingly bored, retired rock star who decides to set out to find the Nazi war criminal responsible for executing his father.
The not-so-feel-good film marks the English-language debut of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, who also penned the script.
Liam Neeson, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Kennedy, Tilda Swinton, Ricky Gervais, Camilla Belle, Tom Wilkinson, Rita Wilson, Milla Jovovich, Alfred Molina, William Hurt, Peter Berg and Chris Hemsworth round out today's star-studded castings...
Rise 'n' Shine: Bradley Cooper Not That Into Jennifer Aniston
• Bradley Cooper's mother loves the rumors that her son is dating Jennifer Aniston, but sadly, the romance is not to be, he tells E! News. The Hangover actor says, "I went to a premiere of one of her movies and we were the last two people at the party, so I guess that's how [the rumor] started."
• Tons of other romance rumors hit the Web this weekend: Cameron Diaz shared a supposed smooch with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine; Alicia Keys outted her longtime relationship with Swizz Beats; and American Idol may have an item of its own in Anoop Desai and Megan Joy.
• For a visit to the White House, Ricky Gervais dresses to impress…in pajamas!
• Looks like someone beat Nadya Suleman to the Octomom porno punch.
• Is Jon Gosselin claiming his supposed mistress likes the ladies?
• Paris Hilton loves mystyle almost as much as we do!
Michael Jackson gives us a peace of his mind in the Big Picture gallery.
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The Office: Sad News for Ricky Gervais Fans
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Oh, those wacky U.K. press peeps. Fact-check, much? That little staple of journalism 101 doesn’t seem to be of high importance across the pond.
Case in point: The U.K.’s Daily Record reported on Friday that Ricky Gervais is heading to the U.S. to make a cameo on the last episode of The Office as David Brent, the boss of the BBC version of our favorite comedy.
Well, we got the real deal from executive producer Paul Lieberstein (Toby!). Here’s what he has to say...
Kate Winslet's Prophetic Joke: Holocaust = Oscar
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy!
As excited as she was about her big Best Actress win at the Oscars last night, Kate Winslet surely saw it coming. In fact, she predicted only a few years ago that participating in a Holocaust film not unlike The Reader might bring her a little gold man!
In 2005, the much-lauded actress appeared on the comedy series Extras playing herself. When Ricky Gervais' character commends the actress for doing a Holocaust movie, she tells him it has nothing to do with spreading the message.
"I don't think we need another film about the Holocaust, do we?" her character version of herself says. "It's like, how many have there been? We get it. It was grim. Move on. No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust, [you're] guaranteed an Oscar. I've been nominated four times—never won. The whole world is going, 'Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's it. That's why I'm doing it. Schindler's bloody List. The Pianist. Oscars coming out of their ass!"
Something tells us the statuette wasn't the main reason Winslet signed on to play Nazi guard Hanna Schmitz in The Reader. But perhaps her moment on Extras left a minor impression...
Ricky Gervais Wants to Swap Out Paris
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Ricky Gervais is no fan of Paris Hilton.
The British funnyman has taken to his blog and written a letter to President Barack Obama requesting an exchange that would move the heiress and Victoria Beckham to middle ground.
"As I'm sure you're aware, one of your flock has strayed," he writes. "A Miss Paris Hilton, who is, I believe, a resident of Beverley Hills [sic], is in England doing a reality game show for ITV2 called Paris Hilton's British Best Friend. Fine. I have no problem with that. I don't have to watch. But now it has come to my attention that she has bought a house in North London a few miles from me, and is out and about ingratiating herself with the Great British public."
The Extras star then explains why this is a matter of international diplomacy requiring the president's immediate attention.
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