Ricky Gervais’ top insults from last year’s Golden Globes

Ricky Gervais is set to host the Golden Globe Awards ceremony for the third consecutive year on Sunday. No doubt the nominees remember Gervais’ notorious second tour as host in 2011. At the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.‘s annual award show, his jabs at celebrities from Robert Downey Jr. to the HFPA’s president sparked debate about whether his jokes went too far or were just the right amount of poking fun at Hollywood’s rich and famous. Here are 10 of Gervais’ best-remembered barbs from the telecast last January. (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

Oct. 14, 2013 5:30 PM PT

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Revisiting Ricky Gervais’ zingers from the 2011 Golden Globes. -- By Emily Rome

On Scientologists, as compared with the characters in “I Love You, Phillip Morris”: “Two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay, so the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists.” (Patti Perret / Associated Press)

Introducing Robert Downey Jr.: “Many of you in this room probably know him best from such facilities as the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County jail.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

On Charlie Sheen: “It’s going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it, ‘breakfast.’” (Peter Kramer / Associated Press)

Introducing Bruce Willis: “Please welcome Ashton Kutcher‘s dad.” (Alexandra Wyman / Getty Images)

On Golden Globe-nominated “The Tourist,” starring Johnny Depp: “It was a big year for 3-D movies It seems like everything this year was three-dimensional. Except the characters in ‘The Tourist.’” (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

On Cher concerts: “‘Do you want to go and see Cher?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because it’s not 1975.’” (Cher is seen here at the Globes in 2010 with Christina Aguilera). (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)