<p>Comedian Ricky Gervais told the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; that he would host the Academy Awards for free — but only if organizers would agree to let him say whatever he wanted.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-takes-hammer-to-golden-globes-sort-of-makes-prediction-about-award-show">Gervais</a> initially made the claim during a Tuesday morning appearance on &#8220;Today with Hoda and Jenna,&#8221; saying that he&#8217;d likely be &#8220;canceled halfway through&#8221; if the Academy hired him for the event. &#8220;They’d never let me do what I wanted. That’s why the Globes got me,&#8221; he explained.</p>
<p>Co-host Sunny Hostin asked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-doles-out-message-to-woke-gen-z">Gervais</a> why, after hosting the Golden Globes five times, he believed the Academy would not offer him the gig.</p>
<p>&#8220;I might be allowed to host it, if I did what I was told, there’s the rub, the good thing at the Globes, they said I could write my own jokes, say what I want and not rehearse and that’s just too good for a comedian to turn down but I don’t think Oscars would ever allow me that freedom,&#8221; Gervais replied. &#8220;Rightly so, I think they would be mad. If they did, I’d do it. If they said that, I’d definitely do it. I’d do it for free if they said I could do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;See, Whoopi thinks you’re wrong,&#8221; Hostin said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think you’re wrong. I think they would absolutely adore it if you were up for it,&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, arguing that the Oscars might be more willing than he thought to give him the free rein he was asking for. &#8220;Did I just hear you say you might be interested?&#8221;</p>
<p>Gervais just laughed, saying he already regretted making the offer, but Goldberg kept pushing. &#8220;If you’re serious I can talk to a couple of people. I know people,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know you do. I know. That’s what’s scary,&#8221; Gervais replied, joking that his agent was already calling him about it.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-spends-day-after-golden-globes-mocking-outraged-media-critics">Gervais raised eyebrows</a> — and brought down the house — with his fifth and reportedly final Golden Globes appearance, poking fun at the expense of the Hollywood elite while standing just feet from them.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God, and f— off,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1213998502184833024">instructed</a> the attendees, taking a backhanded swipe at those who tended to use the award stage as a platform for political messaging.</p>
<p>&#8220;So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>While some in the media were less than thrilled by Gervais&#8217; willingness to ride every third rail and kick open every door that read &#8220;off limits,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1214227021183762440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1214227021183762440%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fricky-gervais-spends-day-after-golden-globes-mocking-outraged-media-critics">Piers Morgan</a> summed up the performance like so: &#8220;Ricky Gervais delivered a glorious kick in the globes to Hollywood&#8217;s woke virtue-signalling hypocrites &#8211; and exposed them as a bunch of shameless two-faced charlatans.&#8221;</p>

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