Hugh Hefner Didn’t Mind Ricky Gervais’ Globes Jokes One Bit

Ricky Gervais’ biting comedy routine at Sunday night’s Golden Globes was tasteless enough to make Chelsea Handler blush and could get the sharp-tongued blacklisted as a host on the Hollywood awards circuit, Tinseltown tattles say. But at least one of Ricky’s targets is jumping to the funnyman’s defense.

Hugh Hefner’s been copping cradle-snatcher jokes for decades now – of course he wasn’t offended by Gervais’ Golden Globes dig!

The Playboy founder, 84, proposed to girlfriend Crystal Harris, 24, over the holidays and it didn’t go unnoticed by the Golden Globes host.

Ricky quipped during his opening monologue on Sunday night: “Talking of the walking dead, congratulations to Hugh Hefner, who is getting married at age 84 to 24-year-old beauty Crystal Harris. When asked why she was marrying him, she said, ‘He lied about his age. I thought he was 94.’”

“Calm down; just don’t look at it when you touch it,” Ricky advised Harris.

Hugh got a good chuckle out of that one.

“The Golden Globes was a blast,” he Tweeted. “They made fun of everyone, including Crystal & me. A great night….Jokes about age will begin to seem lame as we all begin to live longer, fuller lives.”

Commenting on his controversial hosting duties at the 2011 Globes, Ricky Gervais says he isn’t fazed by the backlash over his stinging slurs.

“I don’t know what line I crossed. I didn’t draw the line.”