Worldwide comedy giant Ricky Gervais will be honored this June in Canada as he receives the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award at the Banff World Television Festival.

“This is probably the greatest honour of my career,” says Gervais “Only the Nobel Peace Prize can top this, but I will only accept that in person if the ceremony is held somewhere as beautiful as Banff. I think they Fedex luckily.”

Peter Ustinov was a British actor and comedian, who won a truck load of awards himself; he was a highly respected radio host and diplomat as well, as he served as a UN Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. Past winners of the award that bears his name are John Cleese, Bob Newhart, Martin Short, Tracy Ullman and Kelsey Grammer. The Banff festival runs from June 13 – 16.