And it was one of the funnier lines of a pretty boring opening monologue. He started off by making fun of Jennifer Lawrence’s now-famous screed, “Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?” by asking why any 25-year-old makes as much as J.Law. “For the record, I’m getting paid just as much as Tina and Amy were last year. Doesn’t matter that there was two of them. That’s their fault.”
Hollywood’s pay gap is at the top of Ricky Gervais’s joke list.
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