{"id":92735,"date":"2022-04-08T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/ricky-gervais-calls-oscars-joke-tame-reveals-line-hed-have-used\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T05:35:57","slug":"ricky-gervais-calls-oscars-joke-tame-reveals-line-hed-have-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/ricky-gervais-calls-oscars-joke-tame-reveals-line-hed-have-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais Calls Oscars Joke Tame, Reveals Line He\u2019d Have Used"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ricky Gervais gave fans a more fulsome idea of what his jokes would have been, had be been in Chris Rock\u2019s place at the Oscars. <\/p>\n<p>Gervais, who has hosted the Golden Globes five times, said in a recent video chat with fans that Rock\u2019s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s hair was \u201clike the tamest joke I would\u2019ve ever told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When people asked the frequent Globes host what would have happened to him in the same circumstances he replied, \u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing would happen to me because I wouldn\u2019t have told a joke about his wife\u2019s hair. I\u2019d have told a joke about her boyfriend.\u201d (Pinkett Smith has said she was \u201cin a relationship\u201d with a younger man when she and Smith were on a break from their relationship in 2020.) <\/p>\n<p>As for Pinkett Smith\u2019s hair \u2014 she suffers from alopecia, which occurs when the immune system attacks hair follicles, causing uneven hair loss \u2014 and Rock\u2019s joke, Gervais said, \u201cSomeone said it was joking about her disability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian\u2019s reply?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell I\u2019m going a bit thin, I\u2019m disabled,\u201d he said while pointing to his hair in the video chat. \u201cI can park right up next to Tesco\u2019s now [in disabled parking]. I\u2019m fat. That\u2019s a disease. I\u2019m fat and balding.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xSYS9uoLQU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/xSYS9uoLQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickygervais\/status\/1510662915577323520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais gave fans a more fulsome idea of what his jokes would have been, had be been in Chris Rock\u2019s place at the Oscars. Gervais, who has hosted the Golden Globes five times, said in a recent video chat with fans that Rock\u2019s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s hair was \u201clike the tamest joke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":92736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ricky-Gervais-Calls-Oscars-Joke-Tame-Reveals-Line-Hed-Have.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}