Ricky Gervais meets Hollywood for the first time

He was flown to L.A. to attend the Golden Globes, where he was nominated for the BBC version of "The Office." And Gervais was sure he would lose - or so he says. From the WSJ's Speakeasy:

I had to go shopping the morning of the awards for something to wear. It wasn't Armani, it wasn't made to measure and it wasn't even given to me for free. Didn't they know who I was? No. Hardly any of them did. Anyway, the new outfit did the job, so now I could get this pointless exercise over with. Jane and I got back from the shopping mall and immediately had to get ready. It's nice putting on a tux with jet lag in 90-degree heat. We left the hotel at about 2 p.m. and I hadn't had lunch. I got the limo to stop at a garage on the way and I got a family pack of some sort of Cheesy Wotsits. I ate these in time to get out to the red carpet. Jane pointed out that I now had orange hands and lips. I washed in the ice bucket and tried to get some of the gunk off my teeth and gums with a tissue. We wondered if the girls from "Desperate Housewives" in the limo next to us were doing the same thing. Maybe. They did all look a bit orange when they got out, but it was probably a tan rather than monosodium glutamate. To cut a long story short, the unthinkable happened and "The Office" won the Golden Globes for best sitcom.