The fact of the matter is live television is an incredible controlled environment and with so many moving parts it really has to be in order to deliver a product. Those edits aren’t damage control, they were written by an AD a month earlier and that entire monologue was preformed by Ricky Gervais minimum of three times in the last week. The whole reason for these stupid award ceremonies is to get you to identify with the actors, have the common sense charmed right out of you, fall in love with people who think very little of you and then watch more of their stupid, social engineering propaganda.