Ricky Gervais has given Hollywood the thrashing it richly deserves

Finally, Hollywood has received the thrashing it so richly deserves. The self-satisfied movie elites have been called out — to use their own PC parlance — over their hypocritical moral preening and hollow woke posturing. Courtesy of our very own Ricky Gervais, Hollywood’s right-on bubble has been burst, and what a brilliant sight it was.

Gervais’s one-man war on Hollywood cant took place at last night’s Golden Globes. He was presenting (‘for the last time’, he said, no doubt rightly). He spared no one. He mocked individuals over everything from their dating habits (Leonardo DiCaprio) to their height (Martin Scorsese). And he mocked all of them, the entire industry, over their vacuous moral pretensions.

In his opening monologue he set the tone early on. He paved the way for his takedown of Hollywood hypocrisy by reminding us of the less-than-perfect moral habits of the assembled luvvies and their filthy-rich industry. ‘I came here in a limo tonight and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman’, he said, alluding to actress Huffman’s brief stint in the slammer over the college-admissions scandal.