Ricky Gervais to host Golden Globes

Ricky Gervais will host next year’s Golden Globe Awards on NBC. The “Invention of Lying” star/director/writer, 48, said he’s thrilled about being chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because “I feel I can get free reign as a host,” Gervais said in a press release yesterday. “I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don’t turn down.”