Tom Dunne: It's time to admit awards ceremonies have become more slap than tickle
Ricky Gervais is somebody who 'gets' the absurdity of some awards ceremonies.
Are award ceremonies doomed? Are audiences too woke, the presenters too primed to roast people? It is a perpetual powder keg? In the entertainment industry, is the idea of presenting an award to someone who is, reasonably sound, as opposed to, facing charges, now just wildly optimistic?
Luckily I have vast experience here. Okay, maybe it isn’t at the Oscar/Grammy level, but trust me, throw in a (limited) free bar and the back function room of Wynn’s Hotel of a Tuesday and what’s the real difference? Believe me, the egos, the excess and the wildness are cut from the same cloth.
