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Third time's a charm for British comedian Ricky Gervais.  

Gervais hosted the 69th annual Golden Globes Awards on Jan. 15. 

This was not Gervais's first time hosting the award show. For the past three years he has taken the telecast to a controversial new level. 

At last year's show, A-list stars were slammed with remarks from Gervais's bullied humor. This year, many of them came prepared for the worst when he took the stage for his opening monologue. 

  Gervais opened the 2012 awards, at the Beverly Hilton hotel, with a series of sarcastic remarks aimed at obvious stars, Kim Kardashian and Mel Gibson. He took some low blows at movie flops and NBC, which ironically is the network that hired him back.  

  "Tonight you get Britain's biggest comedian, hosting the world's second biggest award show on America's third biggest network -- no-no sorry, fourth," Gervais said during his monologue.

Last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press, which hosts the Globes, was furious with Gervais's crude humor and insulting jokes. However, controversy gets attention, a point Gervais didn't let slip by. 

"Now, the Hollywood Foreign Press have warned me if I insult any of you, or any of them, or offend any viewers or cause any controversy what-so-ever, they will definitely invite me back next year as well," he said. 

Perhaps NBC's plan to reduce the offensive remarks was to simply keep Gervais off the air as much as possible. 

"Can it be considered ‘hosting' when Ricky Gervais only appears every 30 minutes during the #goldenglobes?" tweeted VanityFair.

Gervais managed to squeeze in a couple of raunchy jokes while he was on-air, but it was nothing compared to what the hysteria leading up to the show predicted.

" I enjoyed last year's show. This year I thought it was funny too. Everyone makes fun of everyone all the time. Celebrities need to learn to take things less personally. It's only tough talk," said junior Meaghan Duval.  

Senior Marissa Gagliardo didn't think this year's watered down version was as entertaining as last year's show. 

"The show this year wasn't anything I'll remember," she said. "Last year's show left a lasting impression in my mind. This year, I already forgot about," she said. 

However mundane Gervais seemed to be this year, junior Sarah Tully doesn't think any of his humor was appropriate.  

"I think what he says is inappropriate. I don't think he should act the way he does. There is no need for him to lash out at celebrities to gain laughs," she said. 

Whatever the audience felt about his performance, Gervais made it clear it only mattered that he had fun. 

Moments after the conclusions of the awards, Gervais took to his blog to comment on his performance   

"Phew! That's over," he wrote. "I had a blast actually."

While the Golden Globes were full of winners and losers, all the celebrities seemed to have left unscathed.