By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

A-listers, assume the crash position.

Ricky Gervais, appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Thursday, said that he didn't think his much-maligned performance hosting last year's Golden Globe awards came off as nasty, adding that his audience "wasn’t a room full of wounded soldiers" but "the richest, most privileged people in the world!"

The British creator of The Office irritated many in attendance at the show last year with an assortment of digs at Hollywood's elite: He made references to Robert Downey Jr.'s past drug problems, Charlie Sheen’s ongoing chaos and The Tourist's poor critical reception. He really turned up the heat by praising the performances of I Love You, Phillip Morris stars Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as "two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay.