Ricky Gervais says that despite the acrimony over his job hosting the Golden Globes, he was asked to consider returning next year.

In a diary of his experience hosting the Globes for Heat magazine, Gervais says that organizers asked him to “consider a third year.” Gervais said he was inclined to turn it down because he doesn’t know what he could do better.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents the Globes and didn’t immediately comment Tuesday.

Gervais’s hosting job in January was his second time around. It quickly became infamous because of the pointed jokes he made about many Hollywood stars. Association president Philip Berk earlier said Gervais “definitely crossed the line.”

The NBC broadcast drew nearly 17 million viewers. That was slightly more than last year’s.

Even Ben Stiller looks bored out of his mind in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and he got paid several million dollars to star in it. Sitting through the movie puts you in a similar state of mind, except you’re the one paying the money.

Not that we’re singling Stiller out. Pretty much no one involved with this listless, rote sequel to the 2006 smash hit seems to have put much effort into it. After all, the original made half a billion dollars at the box office the world over. With numbers like that, a built-in audience for a sequel is guaranteed to line up on opening weekend.

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