Ricky Gervais' monologue at the Golden Globes in full – and his best jokes

Ricky Gervais went down swinging in his fifth and final time hosting the Golden Globes, with another controversial opening monologue.

Just hours before winners including Olivia Colman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Taron Egerton, and Sir Sam Mendes clambered into their limos home with gold in hand, they were squirming in their seats.

Thankfully, none of the above came into the comic's firing line, but Gervais' opening diatribe wasn't so kind on other targets like Joe Pesci, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cats, and The Two Popes.

Ricky Gervais' monologue at the Golden Globes 2020 in full:

"Hello and welcome to the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards, live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel here in Los Angeles. I’m Ricky Gervais, thank you.

"You’ll be pleased to know this is the last time I’m hosting these awards, so I don’t care anymore. I’m joking. I never did. I’m joking, I never did. NBC clearly don’t care either — fifth time.

"I mean, Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars for some offensive tweets — hello?

"Lucky for me, the Hollywood Foreign Press can barely speak English and they’ve no idea what Twitter is, so I got offered this gig by fax.

"Let’s go out with a bang, let’s have a laugh at your expense. Remember, they’re just jokes. We’re all gonna die soon and there’s no sequel, so remember that.

"But you all look lovely all dolled up. You came here in your limos. I came here in a limo tonight and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman.

"No, shush. It’s her daughter I feel sorry for. OK? That must be the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to her. And her dad was in Wild Hogs.