Ricky Gervais on hosting the Oscars: "They’d never let me do what I wanted"

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"I mean that’s why the Globes got me," he tells Today. "They said I could write my own jokes and say what I wanted, no rehearsals.” If the Oscars gave Gervais the same no-notes offer, 'I’d do it,' but that would never happen. I’d be canceled halfway through.”