What did he say to Ricky?...

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sounded to me like some kind of poem. i think he was just speaking spanish for the hell of it, not really caring what he was saying

Does anybody here who saw the Golden Globes actually speak Spanish, and if so, would you be so kind as to tell us what he was saying, por favor? I took four years of Spanish in high school and didn't understand a word of it! Maybe it was because he was speaking so fast? Or was it a bunch of gibberish? Or a poem as someone suggested? Maybe a clever retort directed at Ricky Gervais's joke (the second half of which got completely bleeped out instead of just the one word) that they seemed very interesting, but he couldn't understand a [expletive] word they were saying? (Granted high school was a looong time ago, and I haven't used much Spanish since then. Also, I was taught to speak it with a Mexican accent. But you'd think I could have picked up at least a word here and there. I understood most of what Sofia Vergara said.) ¡Mucha(s) gracia(s)!

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"Of course it is happening inside your head ... but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

He recited a Calderón de la Barca's poem: "La hija del aire":

En esta apacible quinta, adonde el mayo gentil los países que el abril dejó bosquejados, pinta, aunque es esfera sucinta para el sol de tu hermosura, cuya luz ardiente y pura, vence al rosicler del día, bella Semíramis mía, es donde estarás segura, en tanto, ¡ay de mí!, que yo vuelvo a la corte a asistir.

I'm Spaniard and I could hardly understand him. He spoke really fast.

Salma Hayek couldn't understand him neither, as she said!! I thought she was joking, but I guess now that she was telling the truth!

Otra vez, muchas gracias. :)

That was pretty cool actually! So Antonio wasn't insulting Ricky; he was playing along. I thought he was angry! (Antonio es muy caliente. Classy too.) It's too bad they also bleeped out the entire last sentence that Ricky said as he left the stage; it kind of killed the joke all the way around.

BTW, I was able to listen to it again, following along with the words you posted, and I don't think I could have kept up with him even if he had been speaking English! What a tongue-twister! (Antonio is so talented. *sigh*)

PS: Luna said, "The same happens in USA, people from Texas pronounce very different than those from NY or WV or TN... And all is English, I think." Yes, it's all English, and that's interesting about the different pacing; we learned about various Spanish accents, but I'm surprised they never mentioned pacing in all my four years of Spanish. (I'm from one of those northern states where we speak really fast, and I actually speak faster than most people I know! If I'm talking to someone who's not fully fluent in English, I have to keep forcing myself to slow down--it's very difficult!)

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"Of course it is happening inside your head ... but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

He wasn't insulting Ricky but he didn't find the joke funny. Antonio looked very serious, which is very unusual of him. I think he decided to speak Spanish to respond to Ricky for mocking his accent. He proved Ricky can't understand Spanish and that he can speak two languages.

I agree, he did look angry, which is why I wondered what terrible thing he must have said back to him! He was too classy to stoop to insulting him back, but I guess he made his point! (If only the point he was responding to had been aired on TV instead of the entire sentence getting bleeped out.) It was kind of a stupid joke, but then Ricky's humor was so toned down compared to last year, NBC should just have gotten a different host. Of course, the home audience loves Ricky Gervais, but, with a hostile in-house audience, there was too much tension in the air.

Maybe Comedy Central should hire him to host celebrity roasts instead. It's amazing what a good sense of humor celebrities suddenly have about themselves in that situation! And, ironically, the jokes are much more cruel than anything he said about anyone last year. (At least he can't call Bruce Willis Ashton Kutcher's step-father anymore. )

Interestingly, on the Friday before the awards show, I saw Ricky on the Ellen DeGeneres show, and he said he doesn't know why everyone was so upset or surprised last year; it was just like his stand-up act. He wasn't insulting a room full of wounded soldiers, he said; these are some of the most privileged people on earth. On the other hand, privileged or not, I've heard that most celebrities--unless they're totally arrogant and narcissistic--are very insecure.

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"Of course it is happening inside your head ... but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"