You probably didn't know the Golden Globes happened recently, and if you did, the only reason you were aware is that clips began circulating on X showing various moments of celebrities doing what they do best: virtue signaling about their pseudo-moral stances while exhibiting insane levels of elitist bigotry.
The thing is, Hollywood preaching lost its potency in 2020 when Ricky Gervais gave his legendary lecture to his celebrity colleagues, and it's a lecture that's practically become the default response to celebrity virtue signaling since.
If you need a refresher, I made a video back in 2020 talking about Gervais's speech and the importance of it for RedState.
Not that every celebrity listened to Gervais' advice. The preaching has continued unabated since, and this recent Golden Globes was no different. Some of the attendees, like Mark Ruffalo and Wanda Sykes, showed up wearing white pins on their jackets that say "Be Good," a reference to Renee Good, the woman who attempted to hit an ICE agent with her car and was shot dead for it.
As the left does, they used the death as a soapbox to stand on and preach the word of the church of "Orange Man Bad." Missing from the festivities, however, was Gervais, who was nominated for the award for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television for his comedy special Mortality.
Presenting the category was Sykes, who I'm told is a comedian. "Be Good" pin ablazing, she took to the stage and immediately went socio-political and racist by suggesting people are angry because they called a black queer woman to do the job of "two mediocre white guys." This, after she was just on the red carpet talking about having to rein in our "rogue government." I'd show you the video, but once you've seen one celeb talk about how much they hate the Trump admin, you've seen them all.
Sykes went around the room making "jokes" about other celebs, and while a couple of them were good-natured, you could tell there was some venom behind others, including her comments toward Bill Maher and Gervais, and she said that if Gervais won that, while she accepted the award on his behalf, she'd thank God and the trans community. Honestly, it'd be a funny joke if there wasn't ire behind it.
Gervais ended up winning his category, and Sykes did exactly as she said she would. She thanked God and the trans community before walking off the stage.
🚨Wanda Sykes dedicates Ricky Gervais Award to Trans Community
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) January 12, 2026
Ricky doesn't believe in the trans nonsense and Wanda could never win an award herself so she had to stela the limelight and dedicate someone else's award to trans
Woke Hollywood Moron pic.twitter.com/7O3Kui0WJy
I went to see if Gervais responded directly to Sykes and, to my relief, he hadn't. He posted an image of himself holding a Golden Globe with the copy "I f***king won. Again," which, if I'm being honest, is the best possible post he could've made. It says all he needs to say to anyone about anything.
Profanity alert:
I fucking won. Again. pic.twitter.com/1la5ZNITtt
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) January 12, 2026
The reason that I'm glad Gervais didn't respond to Sykes directly is that he doesn't need to. His 2020 message, which still resonates with his peers, is enough. In fact, I think that any additional commentary from him would interrupt that all-important echo, and thanks to Sykes, that echo only got louder.
I think they know that Gervais took the wind out of their virtue signaling sails all those years ago, and they're bitter about it. They should be. Every time they try to puff out their chest and express their moral indignation, Gervais' name is eventually dropped, and it immediately invalidates their faux outrage.
If what Gervais said didn't actually resonate as true, then no one would repeat his words to celebrities, and celebrities wouldn't have that twitch in their eye when his name is spoken.
The reality they don't want to face is that we, the people, don't care about their elitist opinions on X, Y, or Z, as they are generally uninformed, radically ideological, and completely disconnected from the real world. The celebrities who get it are the ones who typically don't say anything at all, or if they do say anything wise, it's to admit exactly what Gervais suggested in 2020: "You know nothing about the real world."
Anthony Hopkins is one such person who, back in 2019, said:
People ask me questions about present situations in life, and I say, "I don’t know, I’m just an actor. I don’t have any opinions. Actors are pretty stupid. My opinion is not worth anything. There’s no controversy for me, so don’t engage me in it, because I’m not going to participate."
Gervais knew it, Hopkins knew it, we knew it, and I think in their heart of hearts, Hollywood celebrities know it too. The issue is that they can't stop themselves because their egos won't let them, and their virtue signaling is more of a signal to one another that they're of the cloth. The funny thing is, as they continue to do this despite it being wholly unwelcome by the greater population, whom they rely on to buy tickets to make money, the more they rend it.
Soon, the Hollywood celebrity will virtue signal themselves into extinction, and in their place will be AI characters and at-home celebrities.
