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When Ricky Gervais hosts the Golden Globes this Sunday (NBC, 8PM EST), don’t expect any pre-taped pieces or large choreographed numbers. Gervais, speaking to the press on a conference call, said he is avoiding all of that. He has planned what he wants to do, but he won’t rehearse it, alone or with anyone on the show.

“I want to host it a little bit more like someone from the Rat Pack would host it,” he says. “You know, just off the cuff and just playing the room and having fun with the people and roasting a few of the A-listers and hopefully it’ll be fun for the room and the people at home.”

“I do want people to have the feeling that anything can happen,” he adds. “I want to be reactive so I don’t want to just go out there and read an alter cue and do a very staid joke and have that sort of polite sort of titter.”

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