Ricky Gervais may have hosted the Golden Globes five times, but he’s in no rush to host the Oscars.
Hours before the Oscars ceremony was set to take place on March 15, the British comedian responded to a fan account named Ricky Gervais Cripps who posted to X: “If you want @rickygervais to host the #Oscars tonight please repost.” Gervais himself responded by writing, “Fuck you! 😂.”
Gervais hosted the Globes in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020. His stint is remembered for mocking celebrities to their faces and behaving far more aggressively toward Hollywood stars than many of his contemporaries.
Last year, Gervais spoke to Variety about his time hosting the awards show, saying his image as a brutal truth-teller was as much a marketing ploy as it was reality.
“The marketing thing is, ‘This is live. He can say anything. Oh my god. He’s brutal. Oh, he doesn’t care about anything.’ All of that is not true,” he says. “I write these jokes. I look at them from every angle. I make sure they’re bulletproof. I go out drinking beer and pretend I’m a cannonball, but I’m not. I’ve never been drunk. I’ve had about a sip. And I can justify anything. I’m never brutal. It just looks that way.”
Gervais’ latest comedy special, “Ricky Gervais: Mortality,” won Best Stand-up Comedy Performance at this year’s Globe Awards. He won the same award last year for “Ricky Gervais: Armageddon.”
See Gervais’ social media message below.
