{"id":331521,"date":"2026-03-16T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331521\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:43:10","slug":"ricky-gervais-oscar-host-comedian-says-f-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331521\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais, Oscar Host? Comedian Says ‘F— That!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRicky Gervais<\/a> may have hosted the Golden Globe Awards five times, but he\u2019s in no rush to take on Oscar hosting duties.<\/p>\n

\n\tHours before the Oscars<\/a> were set to take place on March 15, the British comedian took to X to respond to a fan account named The Ricky Gervais Clips, which posted, \u201cRepost if you wish @rickygervais was hosting the #Oscars tonight.\u201d Gervais himself quote responded, writing, \u201cFuck that! \ud83d\ude02\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGervais hosted the Globes in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020. His duties were remembered for mocking celebrities to their face, and swinging much more aggressively at Hollywood stars than many of his contemporaries.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Gervais spoke with Variety<\/a> about his times hosting the ceremony, and said that his image as a brutal truth-teller was as much a marketing tactic as reality.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe marketing thing is that, \u2018It\u2019s live. He could say anything. Oh, my God. He\u2019s brutal. Oh, he doesn\u2019t care about anything.\u2019 All those are untrue,\u201d he says. \u201cI write those jokes. I look at them from every angle. I make sure they\u2019re bulletproof. I go out with a beer, I pretend to be a loose cannon, but I\u2019m not. I\u2019m never drunk. I have like a sip. And I can justify anything. I\u2019m never that brutal. It just seems like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGervais\u2019 most recent comedy special, \u201cRicky Gervais: Mortality,\u201d won best stand-up comedy performance at this year\u2019s Globes. He won the same award last year, too, for \u201cRicky Gervais: Armageddon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee Gervais\u2019 social media message below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais may have hosted the Golden Globe Awards five times, but he\u2019s in no rush to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,2584,19025],"class_list":["post-331521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oscars","tag-ricky-gervais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}