Three-time Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais is set to helm the awards ceremony for a fourth year.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced on Monday that Gervais will be hosting the 2016 Golden Globes taking place this January.
“Tina and Amy are a hard act to follow, but Ricky is completely fearless and entirely up for the job,” said NBC head Paul Telegdy. “He always did us proud. Welcome back, Ricky.”
A new poster for the Golden Globes was released today to celebrate his return:
Gervais had previously predicted he wouldn’t be returning to host. “I’ve told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do it again, though. It’s like a parachute jump,” he said in 2012. “You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realise you didn’t die and it was quite an amazing thing to do.”
The show has only had three hosts in recent years. Gervais hosted the 2010, 2011, and 2012 ceremonies, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler followed his act in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Before that, the last time the show had a host was in 1995 when John Larroquette and Janine Turner helmed.
The 2016 Golden Globes will air Sunday, January 10 on NBC. The nominees will be announced on December 10.