Ricky Gervais delivers relatively inoffensive monologue

"So, where was I?" asked Ricky Gervais at the beginning of last night's Golden Globes monologue. However, anyone expecting the same kind of insult-laden offend-a-thon as last year might have been disappointed, as this time around, things were a little easier on the star-filled audience.Word was doing the rounds before the ceremony that Gervais had to turn his script in to FPAA bigwigs for approval, and the end product did indeed seem to be a little tamer. Put it this way, Tim Allen wouldn't have been crying into his tux this time around.That said, Ricky still found plenty of time to puncture the inflated sense of importance of the ceremony as a whole. "For any of you who don't know," he explained, "the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem."And errant Oscar host Eddie Murphy also got a bit of a going over. "Bit of trivia for you actually," smirked Gervais, "Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler, between them, played all the parts in the movie The Help!"You can watch Ricky's opening monologue in full below... Not quite so skin-crawlingly awkward then, but pretty chucklesome nonetheless. Looks like a fourth consecutive year on hosting duties is likely in the bag...