Gervais says no to Globes

RICKY Gervais has said he never wants to host the Golden Globes again, describing it as “like a parachute jump”.

The comic, who recently hosted the awards for the third time, caused controversy last year with a series of near-the-knuckle remarks about some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

This year he came under fire from critics for not being funny enough, with one writing that his performance “felt forced and heavy-handed”.

Writing on his blog, Gervais said he had had “a blast” but did not want to do it again.

“I’ve told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do it again though. It’s like a parachute jump. You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realise you didn’t die and it was quite an amazing thing to do.”

The comedian’s much-hyped third stint failed to increase the TV audience, with the Golden Globes drawing in 16.8 million US viewers to NBC this year, a slight dip from last year's 17m.