One point from this three pages would be how do any of you know, or does the media know, how much he might give to charities or indeed, the Labour Party.
For me, those that advertise such donations are the ones that come across as twats.
A second point is that Gervais is all about observational comedy of course. It sounds like a lot of you are very familiar with the everyday tedium that is the office environment from your chosen careers perhaps.Very few of you will have worked in the entertainment industry (judging from...) so I would imagine most of the average person's attraction to "Extras" would be familiarity with the same Gervais character and the stereotypical nature of events that many of you will imagine happen in said industries.
Again, I have to imagine that most residents of an expensive hifi forum are not overly familiar with having nothing - nor of caring for those that do, hence "Derek" not appealing to those here, yet getting two series and being found funny by those who HAVE been in those situations...
AfterLife? I imagine, given the likely age of the PFM demographic, that most of you have had to deal with personal tragedy at some point, whether that is a close family member's death, financial ruin or illness that results in a total loss of hope (potentially the result of one of the former).
The point - I am trying to make - is that it is far easier to be amused by observational comedy that observes something you are familiar with.
Those complaining will not find certain aspects of his work overly amusing because you are unfamiliar with the observational/situational aspects of his work including his stand up (which is far more diverse of course - but with the same irreverence) . For the Golden Globes he appears to have (knowing he wasn't going to do another) taken the opportunity to tell the glitterati just what he really thinks of them and all that they stand for. He should IMHO be applauded for that.
In previous ceremonies he has taken the amusing aspects of the year in show business and, with his very dry and irreverential delivery, delivered those to his audience. This time he said "f*ck it! Anyone who does not see the social injustice of what was on display would be a rampant life long Conservative or worse, a Republican.