Ricky Gervais says he was overly ambitious in his gig hosting 2010’s Golden Globe Awards but felt he nailed his jokes the following year when he stirred controversy by brutally — or hilariously, depending on whom you ask — mocking stars from Angelina Jolie to Robert Downey Jr. to Charlie Sheen.
“I got it a bit wrong I think the first time,” Gervais, who returns to host the Globes Jan. 15, told Matt Lauer in a Today show interview. “I tried too hard with the schtick, the comedy, and I should have just gone out there and done zingers, I think, because the attention span of someone at an award show, particularly the Golden Globe, is about a second.”
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