The comedian will take his fifth self-consciously obnoxious turn on the podium when he presents the 77th
Golden Globes awards ceremony on Sunday. Will the tedium ever end?
Ricky Gervais should not host the Golden Globes this year. He has said as much himself, again and again and again. The first time he was apparently going to quit the job was after his second ceremony, in 2011, until he read some negative reviews of his performance, which caused him to reverse his decision purely to “annoy them”.
But then he vowed that the next ceremony would also be his last – writing on his blog: “I’ve told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do it again” – only to return in 2016 for a fourth effort. Would he ever do a fifth? Unlikely. A Ricky Gervais Golden Globes performance in the age of cancel culture, he said, would be “the end of my career”.