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Gervais and Cohen are a Brit near the knuckle

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Brit comics Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen earned the biggest laughs of the night at the Golden Globe Awards. Handing Kate Winslet her Golden Globe for Second World War drama The Reader, Gervais said: "I told you, do a Holocaust movie and the awards come. Trouble is with Holocaust films is there's never any gag reel on the DVDs."

Light relief: Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais get the laughs

Sacha complained about the global credit crunch, adding: "Madonna has had to get rid of one of her personal assistants. Our heart goes out to you, Guy Ritchie."

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