Hollywood award shows are all usually the same. The A-listers show up in all their fancy garb, and we ordinary folks watch from our screens as they win their awards and use their speech time to make some predictable political or social appeal. This year was no different, but Ricky Gervais as a host definitely made for a more interesting show.

His jokes about specific names in Hollywood, like Leonardo DiCaprio and his longtime affinity for women 20 years his junior, and Harvey Weinstein and all his previous "friends" in the audience, definitely caused some jaws to drop with accompanying laughter.

The laughter seemed to lessen, however, when he went on a tangent about the hypocrisy of the Hollywood elite at these award shows and in general. Gervais called them out for the common use of speech time after an award win to make statements about the political or social climate. Gervais claimed they have no business making such statements about things they know nothing about, claiming some of them spent "less time in school than Greta Thunberg."

He also used his time to call out companies, and those associated with them, like Apple and Amazon, in terms of labor laws and harsh demands of their workers while also calling out people who collaborated with Harvey Weinstein and dallied with Jeffery Epstein. Gervais' jokes were all aimed at the hypocrisy of Hollywood elites and their tendency to talk a big game but never actually do anything to help.

Gervais' hosting of the Golden Globes was a change of pace from the same old shows that the average viewer can't bear to watch more than 20 minutes of. It was funny, clever, and actually addressed some real issues.

Gervais' "I don't care" attitude as he was sipping his beer while digging at his own audience created a Golden Globes show that will be remembered for some time and will be hard to trump, at least in my eyes.