Peanut Gallery to Fey: No, You Suck It

Jeff Bridges, Mo'Nique, 'Mad Men,' 'Glee' also among winners

(NEWSER) - Avatar and The Hangover captured the top film awards, Meryl Streep and Drew Barrymore charmed with stream-of-consciousness acceptance speeches, and host Ricky Gervais generally behaved at tonight's Golden Globes ceremony. Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock established themselves as Academy Award favorites with victories in the leading dramatic role categories, as did Mo'Nique and Christoph Waltz of Inglourious Basterds in the supporting categories. More»

Wrestler director Aronofsky's on-air gesture may be worst violation

(NEWSER) - The decency police are on NBC’s tail for Sunday’s obscenity-speckled Golden Globes. The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the program after receiving 18 complaints, the Los Angeles Times reports. The most flagrant violation was probably when The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky jokingly flipped off actor Mickey Rourke as he delivered a colorful acceptance speech. The gesture was censored only in the delayed West Coast feed. More»

Ex-State Department official: 'It looks like a takedown'

(NEWSER) - Al-Qaeda's most popular web forums have gone dark for 11 days now in what experts are calling a likely cyber attack, the Washington Post reports. "It sure looks like a takedown," said a former State Department official. If website administrators were dealing with mere technical glitches, they would "get on another site and say we’ve got administrative problems." But so far, no one is taking responsibility for the longest non-stop outage of al-Qaeda's chat rooms since they started operating in 2004. More»

But, he writes on his blog, he did have 'a blast'

(NEWSER) - If you were hoping to see who Ricky Gervais would skewer at next year's Golden Globes, sorry: The comic says that while he "had a blast" hosting Sunday's award show, he has directed his agent never to let him do it again. "It's like a parachute jump," he writes on his blog . "You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realize you didn't die and it was quite an amazing thing to do." More»

Gervais skewers NBC, HFPA, Eddie Murphy ... and Madonna skewers him

(NEWSER) - "So, where was I?" began Ricky Gervais, drink in hand, as he sauntered on stage to open the Golden Globes. "Nervous?" He wasted no time throwing out a few insults, noting that he was hosting the show on NBC, "America's third biggest network. Or is it fourth?" He moved on to the show itself, calling the Globes "just like the Oscars, except without all that esteem." More of the best lines from the night:

• "The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton," Gervais said, going on to call them louder, drunker, and "more easily bought."
• The first actor to get skewered by Gervais: Eddie Murphy, who backed out of hosting the Oscars . "When the man who said yes to Norbit says no to you, you know you're in trouble."