Ricky Gervais will host Golden Globes for fourth time

After swearing he would never host the Golden Globe Awards again, Ricky Gervais has agreed to emcee the telecast for the fourth time in January.

The British comedian hosted the show for three consecutive years from 2010 to 2012 before Amy Poehler and Tina Fey took over the duties through this year.

That Gervais would take on the role again comes as somewhat of a surprise, given his public assertion on his blog that he’d told his agent “to never let me be persuaded to (host) again.”

“It’s like a parachute jump,” the 54-year-old wrote in 2012. “You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realize you didn’t die and it was quite an amazing thing to do.”

Poehler and Fey were pretty much universally beloved as a hosting duo, but Gervais proved to be more polarizing.

His barbed sense of humor had him aiming at not only familiar targets such as Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson. In 2012, he made a risque double entendre involving Jodie Foster’s sexuality and her movie “The Beaver.” He even took a dig at his own host, saying he had to help Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berk “off the toilet and pop his teeth in.”

The tone was so acerbic that presenter Robert Downey Jr. even called Gervais out on stage: “Aside from the fact that it’s been unusually mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I’d say the vibe of the show is pretty good.”

The 73rd Golden Globes will take place Jan. 10, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and air on NBC.

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