Oscar Hosts Won?t Use Gervais-Penned Monologue

In an E! News interview, James Franco is seemingly annoyed at the idea that Ricky Gervais wrote a sample monologue for him and his cohost Anne Hathaway to use at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards this Sunday.
“He did his award show and he bombed. Why is he trying to get in on ours?” Franco told reporter Jason Kennedy, after Kennedy presented him with Gervais’ jokes.
“Horrible. His lines weren’t good on the Golden Globes,” Franco remarked as he read the lines. “Why does he want to do our lines?”
Among Gervais’ jabs was a joke about Hathaway being cast as Catwoman (“And I’m the new Catwoman. The first white woman to play that role since Michelle Pfeiffer. I want it to be an inspiration to all white people everywhere. Your dreams can come true in Hollywood too”). Franco and Hathaway gave their first interview together to the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, and in that interview Hathaway said she wouldn’t be making any Gervais-style jokes during the Oscars.
“I can guarantee that if you’re looking for someone to call people out, we’re not your hosts,” she said. “I think that humor is really difficult to pull off, and I’m not particularly adept at it. I wouldn’t feel comfortable.”
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