'It's a tough job ... I thought he was really funny,' the MTV Movie Awards host said of Gervais' emceeing performance on Sunday.
By Kara Warner
Aziz Ansari attends HBO's 2011 Golden Globe Awards afterparty on Sunday
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Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais didn't seem to pull any punches on Sunday during his second year emceeing the glamorous gathering of film and TV casts and crews. His opening monologue alone took shots at several of the biggest stars in attendance ("The Tourist" actors Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, to name two), and directed a few playful jabs at naughty absent ones (including Charlie Sheen).
Still, no matter what you thought of Gervais' performance, he did manage to keep the audience on the edge of their seat, since you never quite knew what outlandish comment was going to come out of his mouth next. Like when he introduced Bruce Willis as Ashton Kutcher's dad, for example.
MTV News caught up with another esteemed awards show host, Aziz Ansari, at the HBO's Golden Globes afterparty, and we thought the comedian would be the perfect person to offer an opinion on Gervais' jokes.
"I thought he did a great job," Ansari said. "Sometimes with these award shows it's tough because the audiences are drinking and not really paying attention. It's a tough job. I thought he did a great job. I thought he was really funny. I really enjoyed it."
We then brought up the fact that it's lucky Ansari hosted the MTV Movie Awards, whose attendees are generally younger and not able to imbibe quite as heavily.
"Yeah. Jaden Smith wasn't doing tequila shots during the Movie Awards," the "Parks and Recreation" star pointed out.
So with the pool of people who've hosted awards show hosts not being a very large one, we asked Ansari if they have some special club or secret society.
"Yeah, we hang out at TJ Maxx," Ansari quipped. "Comedians are not cool. We don't have anything cool, so we just go to TJ Maxx and drink from flasks and hang out."
Sounds like a party to us.
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