Ricky Gervais has described the intense legal negotiations he went through before hosting the 2020 Golden Globes ceremony, centring on the language he used to describe Dame Judi Dench’s genitals.
“I do the monologue – it’s a tough crowd, 15 executives and some lawyers – but I do it, and it’s fine.”
Call me a prude but a joke about Judi Dench ‘licking her ass’ hardly screams high society.”
It was Gervais’s fifth time hosting the event and several of his jokes drew criticism from viewers and members of the media.