Ricky Gervais has vowed never to present the Golden Globes again after his third stint was given a lukewarm reception by critics. Gervais caused outrage last year with a string of near the knuckle jokes at the expense of Hollywood royalty. But this year's effort wasn't quite so close to the funny bone, with one critic describing it as "forced and heavy handed". Not that Gervais agreed, describing it as "by far my favourite of the three". Evidently he wants to leave out on a high. "Phew! Thank fuck that's over. I had a blast actually. It was by far my favourite of the three hosting stints. 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," Gervais wrote on his blog. "The crowd were great this year too. I think they finally worked out that my gags only seemed rude and nasty but were actually not too scary at all. Or they were just drunker. Either way, it was fun but I'm glad to say I'm off to New York to chill out a bit. Ahhhhhh. And relax." Maybe Gervais should have listened to his own advice, telling Richard Bacon last August: "I shouldn't do it. It's a second encore. Don't do a second encore. I don't think I should do it. What am I going back as?" It just goes to show you can do too many Golden Globes. Life's too short.