Golden Globes host Gervais ready to play favorites (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Golden Globe Awards patron Ricky Gervais has concern ideas most who should intend Sun and who should hit been appointed in the prototypal locate — for instance, him.

Gervais said he plans to study in the footsteps of Bob Hope, who, as Academy Awards host, jokingly whined most existence unnoticed for his movies. Gervais unsuccessful to intend a nod for “The Invention of Lying,” which he marked in, co-wrote and co-directed.

“There module be questions asked,” Gervais warned, adding he strength inspire the chair of the tone Foreign Press Association, the ceremony’s organizer, onstage for questioning.

“Look nervy to that,” he said, with more than a contact of glee.

He also places tongue-in-cheek blessed on justice Day-Lewis, who’s up for singable or comedy performing honors for “Nine.” The oft-acclaimed Day-Lewis has conventional Oscars for the dramas “There Will be Blood” and “My Left Foot.”

“How advise he advise in on comedy? It’s meet not fair,” Gervais said. “He doesn’t requirement it, does he? I requirement it more than he does. … It’s same Barack Obama having a go. He doesn’t requirement to. Just display off. Stop it.”

Gervais, the ceremony’s prototypal patron in 15 years, isn’t permanent by some expectations of tolerance for the Globes, transmission 8 p.m. EST Sun on NBC from Beverly Hills.

“Am I meant to be impartial? Because I’ll expiration that straightforward away. Whoever wins (for prizewinning TV drama), I’m feat to provide it to either `Damages’ or ‘Dexter,’” he said.

Gervais is complete partizan most Showtime’s “Dexter,” which he considers a collection act.

“It’s quite dumbfounding that you’re totally on the lateral of a program killer,” he said sincerely, then couldn’t baulk adding a quip: “Which is good.”

Although he confessed that, as of a pair weeks ago, he hadn’t seen every the nominees, he’s a bounteous follower of “Up in the Air” and its star, martyr Clooney. The flick is “a proper, grown-up, queer humanities comedy, which proves they crapper be done,” Gervais said, adding that Clooney is “such a magnificent funny actor.”

Another nominee, the enlivened flick “Up,” is “lovely, much a course film” and his selection of terminal year, Gervais said.

Nominee or not, Gervais figures he’s a succeeder anyway: He gets to encourage the Jan. 19 promulgation of the DVD of “The Invention of Lying” and the Feb entry of HBO’s enlivened program “The Ricky Gervais Show,” supported on his favourite podcasts and frequence books with author Merchant and Karl Pilkington.

As for his move to hosting the ceremony, he doesn’t organisation some skits and is exclusive roughly manufacture his monologue. “Then we’ll wager what happens,” said Gervais, grapheme and co-creator of “The Office” in Britain, the foundation for NBC’s Globes-nominated edition starring Steve Carell.

Could Gervais verify conception in a Globes song-and-dance number?

“If I’m inebriate enough; I’m sure not intellection to. But who knows what module hap by behave three?” he said.

And what’s his designed countenance for the evening?

“I intellection fruitful and sweaty and crumpled. What were you thinking?”

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