Ricky Gervais

Full text: Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes speech

From our UK edition

Hello and welcome to the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel here in Los Angeles. I'm Ricky Gervais. Thank you. You'll be pleased to know this is the last time I'm hosting these awards, so I don't care anymore. I'm joking: I never did. NBC clearly don't care either – fifth time. I mean, Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars because of some offensive tweets. Hello [pointing at himself]. Lucky for me, the Hollywood foreign press can barely speak English and they have no idea what Twitter is. I got offered this gig by fax. So let's go out with a bang. Let's have a laugh at your expense, shall we? Remember, they're just jokes. We're all gonna die soon and there's no sequel, so remember that. But you all look lovely, all dolled up. You came in your limos.

A Christmas Flanimal

From our UK edition

When he’s not starring in comedy shows, performing stand-up or picking up awards, Ricky Gervais is master of the world of the Flanimals — crazy and spectacularly ugly creatures, many of whom eat each other. Here is a brand new Flanimal, exclusively for Spectator readers Lumby Spud(Chavius Brum) This Brumboidian Chavloader is scuppered. He tries to shorten the depressing gap between birth and death by eating till he bursts. This is a slow method and he is at risk of having a meaningful thought before he splatters everywhere. Death brings him the last laugh as he has no TV licence. He’s up.