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Ricky Gervais opening monologue at the Golden

Globe Awards

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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

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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

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