As host, the British comedian's jokes were so near-the-knuckle that when he mysteriously disappeared from the ceremony for an hour, the Internet was abuzz with speculation that he had been sacked midway through the broadcast.
After Gervais's performance at the Hollywood awards in January, Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said many of Gervais's jokes were "totally unacceptable . . . he definitely crossed the line. Some of the things were totally unacceptable."
The most controversial gag of the night was about the Church of Scientology. Referring to the film I Love You Phillip Morris, Gervais said it was about "two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay - so the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then."
"My lawyers helped me with the wording of that joke," he added as the audience gasped.
He also poked fun at The Tourist, the flop film starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp - both of whom were in the audience and smiled gamely. Explaining that it had been a big year for 3D movies, Gervais quipped: "It seems like everything this year was three-dimensional... except the characters in The Tourist."
There were jokes about Charlie Sheen ("It's gonna be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie calls it: breakfast") and Hugh Hefner's sex life. He also introduced Bruce Willis as "Ashton Kutcher's dad".
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