Can't see the forest for the Amazon

In hindsight, the audience response to Ricky Gervais’s opening monologue at the 2020 Golden Globes — one of the Last Normal Things — was a watershed moment in the gradual disappearance of the affluent, progressive sense of humour. Gervais’s monologue, the darkest and funniest performance of the writer-actor’s five turns as emcee, was punctuated with rea…