Hollywood and your precious Golden Globes - brace yourselves. Ricky Gervais is back for a fourth night of constant piss-taking and putdowns. And we can't wait.

But it's not just celebrities that Ricky loves insulting or taking down - as these 30 cutting one-liners prove. Obvious warning: Contains VERY strong language, as you would expect...

ON HOLLYWOOD:

1. "Next up, Eva Longoria has the daunting task of introducing the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press. That's nothing, I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in."

2. "There were a lot of big films that didn't get nominated this year… nothing for Sex and the City 2. I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that poster."

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3. "It seems like everything this year was three-dimensional, except the characters in The Tourist."

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4. "The Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that… esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker, and more easily bought."

ON CELEBRITIES:

5. "Actors aren't just loved here in Hollywood, they are loved the world over. You could be in the third world and get a glimpse of a Hollywood star and it could make you feel a little bit better. You could be a little Asian child with no possessions and no money. But you could see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you'd think, 'Mummy!'"

6. "I hope I haven't offended anyone. It's not my fault [points at his drink]. I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson."

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7. "It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking – or as Charlie Sheen calls it: breakfast."

8. "Also not nominated, I Love You Phillip Morris. Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. So the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then. My lawyers helped with that joke."

9. "Many of you in this room probably know him best from such facilities as the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County Jail... [Robert Downey Jr]"

ON PEOPLE GENERALLY:

10. "Some of you are really smart. You know who you are. Some of you are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are."

11. "Next time someone is critical of you, just consider their life, and smile quietly to yourself."

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12. "Following someone on Twitter and complaining about what they tweet about is like phoning someone to tell them you don't want to talk to them."

13. "As my old nan used to say, 'If you haven't got anything nice to say, then f**k off & be a c**t somewhere else.' Wise words, nan. Wise words."

14. "Getting offended by a statement of fact does not make that fact any less true. But do continue to be offended by it. It makes me laugh."

ON ANIMAL CRUELTY:

15. "Well done. You managed to shoot a stationary, 14-foot peaceful creature with a high velocity rifle. Very sporting."

16. This:

17. "We need to stamp out this terrible sexism in the noble sport of trophy hunting. The men & women that do it are EQUALLY vile & worthless."

18. "Dear intelligent people of the world, don't get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now f**king stop torturing animals."

19. And this:

ON RELIGION:

20. "A Christian telling an atheist he is going to hell is about as scary as a small child telling an adult they wont get any presents from Santa."

21. "If you are threatened or offended by people disagreeing, challenging or even ridiculing your faith, your faith can't be that strong."

22. "Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it f**king ridiculous."

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23. "There are good atheists and bad atheists. There are good believers and bad believers. A c**t is a c**t, and no god has ever changed that."

24. "Imagine if you carried on believing in Santa and the Tooth Fairy into adulthood. And even killed and started wars over it. Ha ha. Imagine that."

25. "Same-sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't."

ON KARL PILKINGTON:

26. "Don't talk shit all your life."

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27. "No, it's perfectly round, your head. Perfectly spherical head. Your face is slightly too big for it - it almost goes over the sides. Perfectly round head... um, pug little nose, funny gimp eyes with no expression. Hangdog look, like a little mouth, like a little lamprey, not formed, not human formed. The way your expression is, it is like you've had a lobotomy. Your head goes weird at the back, it's got a little knot in it. It's really strange, your face. And you're stupid."

28. "Karl has got a head like a f**king orange!"

29. "For a simple man, you retain an awful lot of knowledge. It's just all rubbish. If you just replace all this rubbish with good stuff, you'd be an intellectual, really. Because your retention is fantastic."

30. "You are brain dead. You are one of the most stupid people. I would rather have the monkey drive me home than you."