Wanda Sykes shades Ricky Gervais throughout his Golden Globe win as he misses ceremony

Wanda Sykes threw main shade at Ricky Gervais as he received on the Golden Globes tonight (12 January).

The Brit was up for the award for Greatest stand-up comedy efficiency for his controversial present, Mortality. Nevertheless, with Gervais lacking the ceremony, Sykes took his award together with her after presenting the class.

However she was positive to make use of the chance to take goal on the After Life star as she requested if she may ‘borrow’ Teyana Taylor’s speech.

“As a result of he wish to thank God,” Sykes mentioned earlier than including: “And the trans group.”

Sykes was quickly trending on X following giving these ‘thanks’ on behalf of Gervais as folks say she ‘completely nailed’ it. The Derek actor after all was famously the host of the Golden Globes on a lot of events however has chosen to skip this 12 months’s ceremony.

He mentioned throughout an look on BBC Radio 4 that ‘it is too far to go’ and that: “It takes rather a lot to get me off the sofa with my cat and my girlfriend watching Netflix. I really like the work, I really like writing, I really like creating, I really like stand-up, however all the opposite stuff I may actually do with out.”

One social media consumer wrote following the viral second tonight: “Wanda Sykes dragging Ricky Gervais one in every of my highlights of the evening.”

Gervais has beforehand made ‘jokes’ about ‘taboo topics’ in his Netflix specials and stand-up reveals, with rights teams labelling one as ‘anti trans’ and ‘harmful’.

Dividing folks and receiving a good bit of criticism, he beforehand mentioned: “In actual life, after all I help trans rights. I help all human rights and trans rights are human rights.”

In a single particular he mentioned: “Dwell your finest life, use your most well-liked pronouns, be the gender that you just really feel that you’re,” earlier than including a punchline about trans ladies. Gervais additionally made reference to Eddie Izzard, who has recognized as being gender fluid and has requested she/her pronouns.

He mentioned ‘it is mad to suppose that joking about one thing means you are anti-it’.

Golden Globes 2026 nominations/winners

Greatest director

• Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After One other (winner)
• Ryan Coogler – Sinners
• Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
• Jafar Panahi – It Was Simply an Accident
• Joachim Trier – Sentimental Worth
• Chloe Zhao – Hamnet

Greatest screenplay

• Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After One other (winner)
• Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
• Ryan Coogler – Sinners
• Jafar Panahi – It Was Simply an Accident
• Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier – Sentimental Worth
• Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet

Greatest TV sequence – drama

• The Diplomat
• The Pitt (winner)
• Pluribus
• Severance
• Sluggish Horses
• The White Lotus

Greatest TV sequence – comedy or musical

• Abbott Elementary
• The Bear
• Hacks
• No person Desires This
• Solely Murders within the Constructing
• The Studio

Greatest restricted TV sequence

• Adolescence
• All Her Fault
• The Beast In Me
• Black Mirror
• Dying for Intercourse
• The Girlfriend

Greatest TV actress – drama

• Kathy Bates – Matlock
• Britt Decrease – Severance
• Helen Mirren – Mobland
• Bella Ramsey – The Final of Us
• Keri Russell – The Diplomat
• Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus (winner)

Greatest TV actor – drama

• Sterling Okay Brown – Paradise
• Diego Luna – Andor
• Gary Oldman – Sluggish Horses
• Mark Ruffalo – Activity
• Adam Scott – Severance
• Noah Wyle – The Pitt (winner)

Greatest supporting actor – TV

• Owen Cooper – Adolescence (winner)
• Billy Crudup – The Morning Present
• Walton Goggins – The White Lotus
• Jason Isaacs – The White Lotus
• Tramell Tillman – Severance
• Ashley Walters – Adolescence

Greatest supporting actress – TV

• Carrie Coon – The White Lotus
• Erin Doherty – Adolescence
• Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
• Catherine O’Hara – The Studio
• Parker Posey – The White Lotus
• Aimee-Lou Wooden – The White Lotus

Greatest movie – drama

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• It Was Simply an Accident
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Worth
• Sinners

Greatest movie – musical or comedy

• Blue Moon
• Bugonia
• Marty Supreme
• No Different Alternative
• Nouvelle Obscure
• One Battle After One other

Greatest animated movie

• Arco
• Demon Slayer: Infinity Fortress
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters (winner)
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Greatest actress – musical or comedy

• Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I might Kick You (winner)
• Cynthia Erivo – Depraved: For Good
• Kate Hudson – Music Sung Blue
• Chase Infiniti – One Battle After One other
• Amanda Seyfried – The Testomony of Ann Lee
• Emma Stone – Bugonia

Greatest actor – musical or comedy

• Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme (winner)
• George Clooney – Jay Kelly
• Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After One other
• Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
• Lee Byung-Hun – No Different Alternative
• Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

Greatest supporting actress

• Emily Blunt – The Smashing Machine
• Elle Fanning – Sentimental Worth
• Ariana Grande – Depraved: For Good
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Worth
• Amy Madigan – Weapons
• Teyana Taylor – One Battle After One other (winner)

Greatest supporting actor

• Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After One other
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
• Paul Mescal – Hamnet
• Sean Penn – One Battle After One other
• Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Worth (winner)

Greatest actress – drama

• Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
• Jennifer Lawrence – Die, My Love
• Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Worth
• Julia Roberts – After the Hunt
• Tessa Thompson – Hedda
• Eva Victor – Sorry, Child

Greatest actor – drama

• Joel Edgerton – Prepare Goals
• Oscar Isaac – Frankenstein
• Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine
• Michael B Jordan – Sinners
• Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
• Jeremy Allen White – Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere