Gervais Derided Politics at Golden Globes. Plurality Says It Was Just Political Enough

And Russell Crowe, who was in Australia to deal with the wildfires, highlighted climate change and renewable energy in a prepared statement that was read by Jennifer Aniston after he won for Showtime’s “The Loudest Voice.”

But it turns out the lion’s share of viewers were comfortable with the award show’s politics: Of those who watched the Golden Globes in some fashion, 44 percent said it was just political enough, while 19 percent said it was too political and 9 percent said it was not political enough. 

The poll’s overall margin of error is 2 percentage points, while the margin of error for the subsample of those who watched is 4 points. 

Even Gervais himself didn’t hold back in his opening monologue, targeting sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry and Apple Inc.’s reported labor practices, as well as poking fun at “Cats” and Felicity Huffman’s prison stint for her involvement in a college admissions scandal.

Sixty-four percent of the 746 people who watched the Golden Globes in some form said that Gervais did an “excellent” or “good job” hosting the show, with just 5 percent saying he did a “poor” job.

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