text: Ricky Gervais and Mel Gibson came face-to-face during the Golden Globes leading to quite the awkward moment. 
   
   “I blame NBC for this terrible situation,” Gervais said before bringing Gibson up. “Mel blames…well, we know who Mel blames.” 
   
   The comedian also joked about Gibson’s alcohol problem, but said he’d rather have a drink with Gibson than Bill Cosby. 
   
   After coming out, Gibson responded, “I love seeing Ricky every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy,” which prompted Gervais to return to the stage, making for one of the strangest moments in Globes history. 
   
   Gervais, with drink in hand, then put his arm around Gibson and said he had one question. 
   
   Bleeped out for audiences at home, Gervais inquired,”What the f— does sugar—s mean?” to awkward laughter from the audience. 
   
   Gervais is referencing Gibson’s run-in with the law in 2006. While being arrested for a DUI, Gibson asked a female police officer “what do you think you’re looking at, sugar t–s?” 
   
   Gervais didn’t just call out Gibson though during his time hosting the award show. His monologue included jabs at Sean Penn, Caitlyn Jenner and “The Martian” being included as a comedy film. ||||| When Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globe awards in 2010 he said "It's OK folks, I won't be doing this again" on more than one occasion. His acerbic remarks stunned Hollywood stars more accustomed to flattery and pandering from awards hosts. 
   
   But Gervais did do it again. And the second year he hosted the ceremony the jokes were even more painful. The third time was tamer. Now, as Gervais is set to host once more, we round-up some of his best, funniest, and most offensive Golden Globes barbs. 
   
   2010 
   
   The Los Angeles elite had no idea what was about to hit them. “Looking at all the wonderful faces here today reminds me of the great work that’s been done this year… by cosmetic surgeons,” he said, opening to a smattering of embarrassed titters. 
   
   “I’ve had some work done, too. I’ve had a penis reduction. Just got the one now. And it is very tiny. But then so are my hands, so when I’m holding it it looks pretty big. ” 
   
   “Actors aren’t just loved here in Hollywood, they are loved the world over. You could be in the third world and get a glimpse of a Hollywood star and it could make you feel a little bit better. You could be a little Asian child with no possessions and no money. But you could see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you’d think, ‘Mummy!’” 
   
   “This next category is a bit of a downer. It’s for writing. We all know writers get too much credit in Hollywood, when actors mention them. I don’t mean to keep going on about actors, but they’re the most important ones, OK? It’s not the words you say, it’s how good you look when you’re saying them.” 
   
   “I hope I haven’t offended anyone. It’s not my fault [points at his drink]. I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson." 
   
   2011 
   
   It did not take Gervais long to provoke the A-list audience at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles. By the time he wound up his four-minute opening, he had managed to insult Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Cher, all the stars of Sex and the City 2, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Hugh Hefner. 
   
   Bruce Willis appeared to be upset when he was later introduced as "Ashton Kutcher's dad", but still not content with his night's work, Gervais went on to insult Robert Downey Jr and Tim Allen. Downey Jr summed up the feeling in the auditorium. After the wisecracking host suggested the actor was best known for his time in prison and rehabilitation centres, the Iron Man star said: "Aside from the fact that it's been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I'd say the vibe of the show is pretty good so far." 
   
   "It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking – or as Charlie Sheen calls it: breakfast." 
   
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   "Everything this year was three-dimensional, except the characters in The Tourist. I feel bad about that joke. I'm jumping on the bandwagon, because I haven't even seen that movie. Who has?" 
   
   “Also not nominated, I Love You Phillip Morris. Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. So the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then. My lawyers helped with that joke.” 
   
   "Next up, Eva Longoria has the daunting task of introducing the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press. That's nothing, I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in.” 
   
   "Talking of the walking dead, congratulations to Hugh Hefner, who is getting married at age 84 to 24-year-old beauty Crystal Harris. When asked why she was marrying him, she said, 'He lied about his age. He told me he was 94'. Just don't look at it when you touch it." 
   
   2012 
   
   Despite having toned thing down considerably, he directed what some saw as a homophobic gag at Jodie Foster, the lesbian actress, who co-starred with Mel Gibson in the film The Beaver. “Jodie Foster’s Beaver,” he remarked, “I haven't seen it myself. I've spoken to a lot of guys here, they haven't seen it either”. 
   
   Later, he became involved in a minor dispute with Madonna, who won Best Original Song, after suggesting that the title of her famous song “Like A Virgin” is at odds with her colourful romantic life. The singer responded: “Ricky, if I am just like a virgin why don’t you come over here and do something about it?” 
   
   His final gift to broadcasters, who air the programme in primetime on America’s notoriously-sensitive public airwaves, was to swear while discussing the Spanish-speaking Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas. His comment (“I don't know because I can't understand a f**king word they're saying“) was bleeped out. ||||| To Hollywood, California, where the fatted calf is advised to complete its bucket list inside the next 48 hours. By way of consolation, the cause in which it is to be slain could scarcely be more noble: the welcome home of cinema’s Mel Gibson. 
   
   Sunday night sees the Golden Globes ceremony take place, and organisers have completed the most uplifting of story arcs by deciding that Mel should be on stage to present an award. We don’t know which award, we don’t know if he has any new material. If I were Mel, I would open with an ice-breaker. Maybe walk to the mic, take a long pause, then arch an eyebrow and shrug: “And they say the Jews run Hollywood …” 
   
   But, you know, up to Mel. 
   
   It must be said that returning Globes host Ricky Gervais has greeted the news of Mel’s involvement with the words: “Thank you, Jesus.” So you may care to cast any interaction between the two men as a battle between Ricky’s mischievous atheism and Mel’s ultra-conservative Catholicism. Ricky always has all the best lines, but Mel has a $70m private church compound in the Malibu hills. You get the feeling that if they met in the wilderness, Mel would smite him. 
   
   Whichever way you shake it, though, it all caps a stunning – and stunningly predictable – return to the Hollywood firmament for Mel. He’s back. Lord knows there was a time when you would have remarked that Mel couldn’t get arrested in Hollywood, except for the fact that arrested was pretty much all he could get. 
   
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   DUI, domestic violence battery: in many ways, Mel was the last great charge-sheet all-rounder, as at home playing a sexist antisemite as he was bringing life to taped recordings featuring threats of homicide, admissions of assault in front of an infant, and deathless observations such as the one that he “deserve[s] to be blown fast” or arson may ensue. You can never really read anyone else’s relationship, but in Mel’s case there was always the audiobook. 
   
   As for how he returned to the fold, there will be a load of theories. But Lost in Showbiz has compiled a personal highlights reel of milestones on the road to industry redemption. 
   
   It was cold out there for a few years, despite two starring roles: one in an Edge of Darkness remake, and one in The Beaver, a domestic drama flop about an alcoholic in crisis – yup – directed by his friend Jodie Foster. But in 2011, Mel was thrown a high-profile lifeline back to system compliance by drearissimo franchise bore Robert Downey Jr, whose money-shitting turn as Iron Man appears endlessly satisfying to this once-interesting actor. When he was honoured for lifetime achievement at the American Cinematheque Awards, Robert chose Mel to be the one to hand the gong over to him, telling the audience: “I humbly ask that you join me, unless you are completely without sin, and in which case you picked the wrong fucking industry, in forgiving my friend of his trespasses and offering him the same clean slate that you have me and allowing him to continue his great and ongoing contribution to our collective art without shame.” 
   
   Their collective art duly moved to allow it, resulting in Gibson starring in the world cinema classic Expendables 3 – overlooked by the Academy, yes, but still an incredibly moving look at steroid abuse in the senior citizen community. 
   
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   The next step involved Mel going back to beginnings and becoming temporarily Australian again, choosing Sydney as the base for his directorial return. Hacksaw Ridge is a second world war movie, which tells the story of a misunderstood religious loner who declines to fight Hitler (yes, I know), but ends up being honoured in the end. Anyway, Australia. For a country that had rather washed its hands of Mel back around the time of the DUI arrest, the move was a bit of a litmus test. But this phase of the road back was judged to be complete when the New South Wales premier himself tweeted: “Welcome back Mel Gibson. New movie Hacksaw Ridge to be filmed in NSW bringing 720 jobs and $26 million.” 
   
   Running in tandem to all these penitential acts, of course, has been Gibson’s assiduous purchase of indulgences. Look, it may be his own, aforementioned church (last recorded congregation: 70) to which Mel keeps donating millions of tax-free dollars. But until some reforming entertainer nails 95 theses to the door of Malibu’s heavily fortified Church of the Holy Family, it all counts on the great penance abacus in the sky, OK? 
   
   And, ultimately, there was the drawing of lines under stuff. In 2014, Mel used an interview to declare how over he was apologising to the Jews and whatnot. “It’s an eight-year-old story,” he said of The Unpleasantness on the hard shoulder of a Malibu coastal highway. “It keeps coming up like a rerun. All the necessary mea culpas have been made copious times,” he ruled. “So for this question to keep coming up, it’s kind of like … I’m sorry they feel that way, but I’ve done what I need to do.” 
   
   Quite so. The stage is now set for the final chapter in this quasi-redemptive story, in which Mel wins next year’s best actor Golden Globe – and is presented with it by none other than highway patrol officers Jew and Sugartits.
target: – Mel Gibson has been persona non grata for some time in Hollywood, following a string of headline-making infractions, including DUI troubles and accusations of anti-Semitism and domestic violence. As the Guardian puts it, "There was a time when you would have remarked that Mel couldn't get arrested in Hollywood, except for the fact that arrested was pretty much all he could get." But Gibson showed up on the Golden Globes stage tonight, and that put host Ricky Gervais—who had poked fun of Gibson at the 2010 awards—on the spot. "I like a drink as much as the next man—unless the next man is Mel Gibson," Gervais said six years ago, and he chastised the Globes' network Sunday night for making him face his target, saying, "I blame NBC for this terrible situation" and adding, "Mel blames ... well, we know who Mel blames," Variety reports. Still, he noted, "I'd rather have a drink with him in his hotel room tonight than with Bill Cosby." Gibson, for his part, played the straight man and just introduced clips from Mad Max: Fury Road—though he did say, "I love seeing Ricky every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy."