Ricky Gervais hits out at Tom Hanks for thinking he's 'above' infamous Golden Globes jokes

The Office star continued: “I could say a lot worse things about them, but I don’t want it to get really nasty and for no reason.

“I think people who laugh at a joke, they get a round of applause because people go, ‘Oh that’s good, they can take it,’ we don’t want people to be above it.

“We even let people be privileged as long as they say, ‘I know I’m privileged but I’m nothing really,’ we don’t like people to go ‘Oh I deserve it, how dare you talk to me like that.'”

Ricky concluded on Christian O’Connell’s Stuff Of Legends podcast: “And we sense that, if we really think these people start believing their own hype, we want to bring them down a peg or two.”