Seth Rogen Independent Spirit Awards Monologue: Host Blasts Brett Ratner, Chris Brown And Mel Gibson In Hilarious Opening

Move over, Ricky Gervais and Billy Crystal. Seth Rogen was the emcee at the 27th annual Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. on Saturday afternoon, and the "50/50" star killed during his awards-show hosting debut while taking aim at Brett Ratner, Mel Gibson and the Grammys during his hilarious opening monologue.

"The best thing to come of awards season is we learned what a horrible bigot Brett Ratner is," Rogen joked, referring to Ratner's homophobic slur about rehearsing that caused the director to step down as Oscars producer. He went on to wonder if Ratner would have been a better fit as producer of the Grammy Awards.

"At the Grammys, you can literally beat the shit out of a nominee and be asked to perform twice," Rogen said to thunderous applause. (The Grammys came under fire two weeks ago for giving Chris Brown a platform just three years after he assaulted his then girlfriend, Rihanna.)

Discussing the year's Spirit Award nominees, Rogen was just as quick-witted. He joked that "Drive" was a silent film, before commenting on the villains in Nicolas Winding Refn's moody noir, played by Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman.

"'Drive' made Jews so scary I thought Mel Gibson directed it," he said.

As for "The Artist" -- which wound up winning four Spirit Awards, including Best Feature -- Rogen quipped, "I thought we created the whole foreign film category to stop this shit from happening."

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[sakismomiam]

04:17 PM on 02/27/2012

What a hoss Seth is! Love him!

[Ken McCarthy]

04:02 PM on 02/27/2012

Mel Gibson poses an interesting dilemma: Is it morally consistent to praise an artist's work while denouncing the artist himself for his bigoted views?

[mmiret]

01:28 PM on 02/27/2012

Love this guy.....

[healthywrx]

12:31 PM on 02/27/2012

Making fun of un p.c. stuff is as pathetically edgy or witty as this doofus gets. Yawn get some genuine talent Rogan.

[GoodDog0325]

12:58 AM on 02/27/2012

Perceptive and funny! Wonder if he wrote those or had collaboration?

[oxjr]

04:59 AM on 02/27/2012

Those are probably all things that slipped out durring conversations with his buddies and someone had the sense to write them down. Seth is pretty quick witted.

[bettyboop68]

11:54 AM on 02/26/2012

People please get over mel and chris! U keep bringing them up as if they mattetmr to us. Nobody had to see his movied or listen to his music. Enough already!

[Cedar Edge]

07:07 AM on 02/27/2012

betty, come back when you can write a sentence!

[bettyboop68]

07:20 AM on 02/27/2012

why dont you just go away i have as much right to give my opinion as you do. you dont have to readt anything i write so go away.

[aceshigh11]

11:33 AM on 02/26/2012

Those are some good lines, mostly because they're all true.

[Valeaugust]

09:50 AM on 02/26/2012

Seth; I'm a big fan but also Argentine. The joke mixing nazis and Argentinians was completely uncalled for. Nevertheless I still think you are very talented and I'll continue following your work

[bigfile4]

08:47 AM on 02/27/2012

You Argentinians shouldn't have welcomed and sheltered them after World War Two. You folks are lucky that the families of the 20 million people they killed in captivity (6 million Jews among them) didn't come looking for them in your country. They still have their protected enclaves in South America where they practice their Fascism.

[winniecm]

09:31 AM on 02/27/2012

Ya reap what you sow - clean up those enclaves and get rid of them and we'll talk.

[Valeaugust]

02:38 PM on 02/27/2012

Just 2 comments:
1-You can't generalize. You cannot put the 40 million of Argentine citizens in the same bag.
2.- Argentina has the 3rd largest Jew community after Israel and USA. Do you think they are happy that a politician 50 years ago made such a mistake? And do you think that the Argentine Jews are happy with Seth's comment?

[hamerxham12653]

12:04 PM on 02/27/2012

Don't cry for ME! Argentina!!

[BraveYusuf]

12:37 AM on 02/26/2012

Seth Rogen? This is the same guy who cried foul cause the guys on Entourage made fun of his head size.

[AndyLewis]

08:40 PM on 02/27/2012

Which head?

[BraveYusuf]

09:32 PM on 02/27/2012

Seth Rogan's gigantic head!