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The Golden Globes haven’t had a host in 15 years, but if you’re going to try something different you might as well get a comedian who seems perfectly tailored to host an awards show. 

“”We never thought a host was necessary,” Philip Berk told the Hollywood Reporter. “Only when NBC suggested the idea that a host might enhance the show, my response was the only person we could consider for the task would be Ricky Gervais, and we were lucky to get him.”

And get him they did.  Gervais joins a recent list of outside-the-box hosts, including Ellen DeGeneres and Hugh Jackman at The Oscars and Neil Patrick Harris at The Emmy’s. 

This announcement has me curious enough to check out the awards show, when I otherwise wouldn’t.  There’s a lot of people who don’t care about the awards but would watch to see Gervais’s acerbic wit gently prod celebrities.

Nominations for the Globes will be announced Dec. 15. The 67th annual Golden Globes  will air as a live broadcast Jan. 17, 2010 on NBC.

Let’s see? Ricky Gervais and Stephen Marchant are co-writers/co-directors, Ralph Fiennes shows up and there are “Schindler’s List” jokes.

Can I give you my money now to see this?

The Invention of Lying hits theaters on September 25, 2009

From Videogum:

This video is more or less taking two completely random, unrelated things (the hilarious exchange between Ricky Gervais and Patrick Stewart on Extras, and the Disney movie Bambi) and putting them together, but somehow I can think of at least four people who will absolutely love this.

Nay, I can imagine a million people loving this.

Thinking about that Elmo clip, made dig around for some other funny Gervais bits.  Here Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant asked to permit the staging of an operatic version of The Office to raise money for Comic Relief.

Would you pay to see to see an operatic version of The Office? Yes, yes you would.

[via Oh No They Didn't]

Ricky Gervais could get me to watch anything.  In fact, I rented Ghost Town the other day because of him (review forthcoming) and actually enjoyed it.  Such is the power of Mr. Gervais.

Whether it’s his acerbic, off-putting personality and sarcastically aloof sense of humor, the man can say just about anything in that psuedo-self-assurance and I would laugh.

Team him up with Elmo for an off-camera (yet still recorded, oddly enough) outtakes sort of thing and it’s gold.  Did you ever think anyone would ask Elmo about necrophilia?  Clearly this one is for the older kids.

Genius.  That is all.

We don’t know anything about this project, but the thought of Ricky Gervais and Larry David in some sort of movie together just about gives us the hugest comedy boner known to man. As if we would need to ruminate upon the genius of either of these men. Take heed and enjoy.  We haven’t watched this in its entirety, but when we have a solid hour to do so we are so there!