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and now it is my greatest honor to

present the Charlie Chaplin brittania

Award for Excellence in comedy to Jim

Carrey my hero

[Applause]

Wow thank you so much that was very

convincing I approve of this entire

illusory manifestation I'm glad it

didn't come in the mail

kind of worked it kind of worked maybe a

little soon it is my job to try ok sorry

yes I no longer have packages delivered

to my home in the Great America that's

been fashioned in the last couple of

years I don't remember it ever being

this great actually I want to express my

sincere gratitude to BAFTA for this

immense honor Charlie Chaplin was truly

an artistic and humanitarian hero of

mine he grew up in extreme poverty

his father was absent his mother went

into an asylum when he was 14 years old

my fault

sorry it's pretty stirring stuff

but that kind of pain turns some people

as we've seen lately into monsters and

others into fountains of creativity

Chaplin alkalized his pain turned it

into art exquisite timeless healing art

very few people know that the Tramp

characters funny walk was because he had

worn through the soles of his shoes he

was in pain and trying to avoid the

blisters trying to stay off his feet you

know with without empathy like that this

character would never have existed

without empathy we won't either

with modern times he criticized

capitalism without a conscience and

that's what we have now we have

capitalism without a conscience so he

showed the common man being fed through

gears of the brutal dehumanizing

industrial age he took on the American

right wing of his day its worst evils

hatred of immigrants contempt for the

truth greed and the abuse of power

we are fighting those same evils today

in America in the United Kingdom across

the globe and we need to be clear

shamelessness is not and will never be a

superpower it is the mark of a villain

kidnapping children is not what great

nations do almost half of America at

this moment believes there is a sinister

deep state diabolically plotting to what

give them healthcare what is the

sinister plan here sure I can afford the

miracle drug for leppe restless leg

syndrome I should take the pills I guess

we in America are misinformed reality

shows have warped our idea of what a

hero is or what the truth is so tonight

I'd like to dedicate this award to those

who remind us of our virtues who remind

us of the truth to Sir Charles Chaplin

who battled McCarthyism into exile -

Christopher steel who tried to pull a

thorn out of the paw of an ungrateful

Beast - Christine Blasi Ford - Colin

Kapernick

he'll stand for the anthem when the

anthem stands for him and to one of my

friends my good friends and one of the

greatest artists of our time Robert De

Niro whose life was threatened also this

week along with many other incredibly

decent people who bring joy to the world

who've been dedicated to it for years

for decades how dare they besmirch those

people how dare they we can do better

than this I know this wasn't funny but

it's not very funny right now and I want

it to be and I will be again but god

damn it let's get the balance back okay

and November let's get the balance back

thank you so much this is a tremendous

honor

thank you Peter Corley who is

responsible for some of the great

moments of my life thank you to my

daughter Jane who is my tether to this

world and everything valuable in it

thank you Jeff for being here john

Rigney one of my oldest friends

dan Aloni my agent thank you all I love

you so dearly and I'm so honored to be

included amongst these recipients I

can't believe it

[Applause]

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