On Monday's Late Night, Ricky Gervais told host Seth Meyers how he negotiated his memorable joke targeted at Judi Dench's role in Cats while hosting the 2020 Golden Globes.
The comedian said that he didn't spend much time preparing for the hosting gig. "I don't rehearse or anything like that, but I do have to show it to a lawyer just to make sure that I don't break the law or libel anyone or break taste and decency," he explained of the jokes he wrote for the show. "And I never have.
I've always read it to a lawyer an hour before and they’ve gone, 'Yeah, that's fine.'" Before the 2020 awards show, Gervais had a meeting with 15 lawyers. "I don't know if that was they're getting more nervous about me or the times have changed," he said..
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