Ricky Gervais Is Over The Golden Globes | Letterman

our first guest, well there's a funny guy here and by the way, it's not too soon, a good friend of ours has a new HBO comedy series titled Life's Too Short, premiering on February 19, ladies and gentlemen, It's Ricky Gervaiser, oh how are you doing? I have been very busy. You hosted the Golden Globes on Sunday night in California and now here you are back in New York City on Tuesday. Thank you very much for returning in time to be on the program. I am grateful to have been able to be. get out of town quickly anyway really yeah   this is the third time you've hosted that show the third time you've done that and that yeah 21 doing this is like that 20 I know that doesn't mean anything to you it doesn't mean much to me it means more to I have to host the Golden Globes three times.

I don't know what it means to you, but to me it's an honor, yeah, wow, are you done hosting the Golden Globes yet? Yes, I think so, for now I did. I did it the first time because it was pretty flat and it's a huge global audience for a comedian. I like writing jokes, that's what I do. I did it a second time because I thought I could improve on the first one and I wasn't going to do it a third time but then a lot of people said they would never invite him back so I did it to annoy them just to show them yeah good for you yeah , and of the three, how do you rate them?

One, two and three, put them on the podium, how? If you rate them, this was my favorite because I think the audience was more receptive. I think it took them the first two to understand me. I think last time I thought why is he saying such horrible things. Yes, yes, but I think this. Maybe they understood that they were just jokes, you know, or they checked them at security and checked that they had a sense of humor to come in, I don't know, but yeah, you know, last year they had a straight stick there, maybe they did.

It was bad, it got deleted, I don't know, but it was great and fun and, you know, charming, but I think three times is enough for anyone because, I mean, of the many things you do organizing awards shows, it's probably not what you do. I will be reminded that it is not my idea either. I mean, I do it like some people play golf. It's not part of what I do, you know, win, lose or draw, you know, the next day I'm writing something that I enjoy writing. and creating television shows, but you know, it was a lot of fun, you know well, I liked it the year before, when people were outraged, yes, people were stunned, they couldn't believe that a guy had the courage and the intellectual capacity. standing in front of famous people and making jokes about them, oh my god, I know it was oh, it wasn't a room full of wounded soldiers, it was people pretending to be someone else for a living, you know, it wasn't like that. exactly too you can't care what people think about whether they're offended or not because anything you say, someone somewhere is going to be offended oh yeah, you know that, yeah, and just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right. everyone cares, we had a woman, we still have a woman depending on what security did with her, but we did have a uh in the audience who had a number of questions about your behavior at the Golden Globes.

Okay, the references were a golf playing golf and your penis is that, does that sound familiar to you? What does it mean that sounds familiar to you? yeah, yeah, that's a good party trick, bring me, bring me a bell and I'll do my best, that's a good party trick, there's no, yeah, that's just Ricky. Bell didn't get out of hand, so she's suggesting that there was something left out of her version that she didn't quite understand, it didn't add up. I said um, I said uh, the list of rules that I gave myself and I said no bad words. okay I have a huge vocabulary um and then I said no nudity oh that's a shame so I have a huge vocabulary so I slipped but a small penis so I said penis.

I've said it three times tonight. I mean, I don't know what the rules are, but you know I'm the one who started it. Yeah, but I thought you said something about golf. Did you say something about golf? I didn't say anything about God. Okay, well, no. I don't think we'll get her out of here then, so um, you went out and I went out of town and that's right, you got drunk during the show, so you're drinking, yeah, slowly, gradually, yeah, drinking. I was drinking  um beer, yeah, yeah, in distilled spirits, what's your preference? I like whiskey, but when I'm working, we see that I only drink beer when I work as if it were a soft drink.

Two of these shows, Life's Too Short, okay, uh. I thought they were tremendous oh thank you greetings. I can highlight things that I would like to talk to you about one was the scene with Liam Neeson, very funny and then uh the star hires an assistant the name of the young woman who plays her assistant, who is she? Name her, her real name or you choose what her real name is: Rosamund Hansen and on the show it's Cheryl, yeah, and she's very funny, she's very, um, she's not very bright and the only one who hires her is because she's cheap because His parents want him to do it. out of the house until six every night, so he's the worst assistant you can have, but, um, but what I got, there are several scenes with you and Stephen Merchant in an office, and I think that's probably exactly what your life is like. .

In London it's a kind of beautiful, clean, modern space, which you and Steve Merchant believe in, that's exactly how it works and the kind of joke in this show is that we still get picked on by everyone we know. I've ever worked with going in and saying because we play ourselves and uh um saying if you're in the office you do more extras so it's like we're trying to get on with things but you know and uh Warwick comes to us who was in extras and he's three foot six he's a dwarf he's a dwarf there I think there are 300 types of dwarfism is this on television this show thank you if you have a nickel what I like when I like extras when I watch your show the extras and then there was the second season of The Exers and now this show and of course the office but in this particular one the language of the script the written word reminds me so much of the office.

That's what I find very satisfying. This is just because you're the office or it's something you were trying to do well, I guess you know you go back to the same issues. um, it's a fake documentary. I like the office, but I think it has changed. I think if The Office reflected those kind of quaint documentaries of normal people being famous like David Brent, this is more current, where people live their life like an open wound, you know, those documentaries that just let them do anything, so I think it's the same but different. I mean, yeah, it's very, very funny, as I mentioned, and the guy, the star, we have this, he's broke, his wife has divorced him and he doesn't exactly have a job. and he really is a movie star, he was in movies like Return the Jedi and um Willow and stuff, but the joke is that no one recognizes him by his face, so he's trying to come back and um, he's trying to do it, so he's so funny, he has such a physical career, he has so much humanity, he's just funny, so we had to make him like a little Hitler, so you have to really highlight the pain that you caused him, like a little Hitler, well, he's a kind of manipulative and he's nasty and he exploits other dwarves and he runs an agency and he takes the best jobs for himself and he hires them to shoot them with cannons and stuff, so it's about exploitation, you know, of little people and stuff. things, but he's uh, he's very, very easy uh with the written word very, you know, he's very funny, he's delivering material, he's like a silent movie star or something, he's very funny and he's unbreakable, we can throw him .

I want to bring out a little doll of Warwick it's cool, yeah it's cool now. I'm very curious about your life in London. I know you have an apartment here in the United States, yes, but I want to know more. I like you. Fascinates me. uh uh I would like to have a set of rooms at the Savoy. Do you have a set of rooms in this place? I don't have it, but I mean I could. I could solve it with a right. Would it be a good decision for me? live well there, not just have it, so that people say, "Oh, where's Dave?

He's in his rooms at the Savoy in London, yeah, that would be nice, yeah, or you could, you probably know I could probably pull some strings." , you'd probably get a room." in the palace yes they are not used yes no no that's too much that's really in bad taste now for example oh you've given up haven't you? yes I admit it, I have given up could you and your friend Stephen come to the grill room with the Savoy and have lunch, yes we could have a grill, yes what would you like, a small pork chop or whatever special, uh, uh or uh, what's it called?, uh, you know, the tasteless white fish. that everyone gets there, eh, what is that?, eh, you know, it's the roast, the roast.

I mean, what would you be tweeting if he wasn't here? What will he be like in a couple of years? The last part is usually faster. Soul Dover Soul, there you go, what a grandfather, and uh, sad but true, then the three of us would be there, two together, it's like a Cuckoo's Nest floor. I just saw it. I love that guy. I love what's cool. I love him. I like their fight. like a little testicle i love it who cares who cares this shouldn't even be on the air nevermind now the other thing we want to mention another tv show a broad idiot on the wish list with your friend Carl amazing amazing um that starts that starts next week I worry about him I worry about his family Do you mind being exploited like that?

Well, we had to lie to him because he hated the first one so much, but the TV show was good, it's my gift to the world. He's one of those people who just takes advantage of life differently, so this time we said he could pick from the bucket, there are things. what to do before you die that's great but he didn't understand what he said he said why would you want to swim with dolphins if you're dying? I told him no, there is nothing to do immediately before dying, take it to the door exactly, yes. he said and it was he said it has nothing to do with dolphins he said they just want to go to the Bahamas for a free trip he said you said there's a dolphin in the Thames they would go they wouldn't go in and we sent I told him to swim with dolphins but when he got there We exchanged it for sharks.

Oh, it's funny. Life's Too Short was already seen on BBC Two. Yes, it was a great success in England. Yes, and I hope so. It will be a great success, you can see it right there starting in January. Sorry, February 19 on HBO and An Idiot Abroad. The premiere is January 21 on Science Channel. Man, you're everywhere. Ricky Gervais, thanks, laughs.