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Ricky Gervais opening monologue at the Golden
Globe Awards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_OnK0SrtC8
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Whats happening?
For three years running British comedian, actor, writer and producer Ricky Gervaishas gotten up on stage and gone against the conventional introduction monologuefor an awards ceremony in a number of ways, he:
Mocks the event and the network it is broadcasted on
Mocks the actors in the audience, the films they star in and celebrities that are notpresent
Makes allegations about the sexual orientation of a celebrity (Justin Bieber) Suggests that a celebrity has been paid for sex (Kim Kardashian)
Uses sexual references (discussing his own penis and acting out a sexual act onstage)
Insults obese people
Accuses Mel Gibson of being racist (which he is but race is still a touchy subject)
Makes gendered comments about the women in Brides Maids Mocks institutions that support him such as Hollywood foreign press and NBC
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Key Theoretical Orientations
Symbolic Interactionism
Dramaturgy and The Self
Facework Ethnomethodology (Breaching experiments)
Other ideas that I could touch on:
Codes, profanity, institutional talk, deferenceand demeanor
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Symbolic interactionism
The symbolic interaction perspective is based
on how humans develop a complex set of
symbols to give meaning to the world
(LaRossa & Reitzes, 1993)
Symbolic interactionist theorist sees humans
as active, creative participants who construct
their social world, not as passive, conformingobjects of socialisation
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Gervais engaging in Symbolic
Interaction
Gervais actively exercises agency in the non-
conventional manner he interacts using
symbols such as demeanor, language and
content to give the social situation new
meaning
He redefines his environment by breaking the
code of conduct and engaging inunconventional interaction
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Dramaturgy and The Self
Gervais self: whether it be in a live interview,
in stand up comedy, or in the shows that he
writes and stars in he has built a reputation
which he communicates through the selfthat
he performs
Frontstage/ backstage: Gervais and his
audience playing frontstage roles
The audience as a team
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Facework
The termface may be defined as the positive social value a
person effectively claims for himself by the line others assume
he has taken during a particular contact. Face is an image of
self delineated in terms of approved social attributes
(Goffman 1955, p213)
The audience saving face Example: Jodie Fosters beaver
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Gervais monologue as a breaching
experiment
While Gervais main purpose is to entertain
and make his audience and the people
watching at home laugh, he is also pushing
the boundaries of what he can say, and
looking for a reaction
Example: 2010 Opening monologue at the
Golden Globe Awardshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwH0Hfb
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I am going to kill you
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With each year that Gervais
performs his monologue, are his
insults and comments becomingbleached?
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HELP!!!!!
Other areas I could touch on:
Codes
Profanity Institutional talk
Deference and demeanor
I cant cover all of them so which ones do YOUthink I should focus on???
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Reference
Ritzer, G, 2007, Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, New York,New York. McGraw-Hill
Goffman, E, 1955, "On Face-work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements of Social Interaction, Psychiatry:Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 18(3), 213-231, Reprinted in Goffman (2005, pp 546)
Goffman, E, 1967, The Nature of Deference and Demeanor, pp. 47-96 in Interaction Ritual: Essayson Face-toFace Behaviour, New York: Pantheon Books
Goffman, E, 1971, Performances, pp28-82 in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,Harmondswoth: Penguin
Heritage, J, 1984, The Morality of Cognition pp75-102 in Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology,Cambridge: Polity Press
LaRossa, R, Reitzes, D, 1993, Symbolic Interactionism and Family Studies, Sourcebook of FamilyTheories and Methods, pp135-166