Ricky Gervais
- 63 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, executive producer and stand-up comedian
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The Ricky Gervais Show - Preview
HBO have produced an animated version of Gervais's celebrated podcasts, and I'm happy to report that it works really well.
Anna Lowman, British Comedy Guide, 23rd April 2010Such is Ricky Gervais's cultural currency in the US that they're even hungry for his podcasts. The Ricky Gervais Show is the audio from Gervais's popular chats with fellow writer/director Stephen Merchant and their oddball former co-worker Karl Pilkington, fleshed out in cartoon form. If it sounds slender, be advised the material is strangely absorbing: with Gervais and Merchant set up to goad and mock him, Pilkington is given free rein to mumble his thoughts on topics from travel to newspapers, a kind of inspired rubbish.
The Guardian, 23rd April 2010Ricky Gervais, his co-writer Stephen Merchant and hapless producer Karl Pilkington have reunited to make these HBO-produced animated versions of their popular podcasts. It largely centres upon inane chatter with Gervais and Merchant encouraging naïve Pilkington to offer up his absurd life theories. The smug duo then mock him. Tonight Pilkington's subjects include an amusing riff on monkeys in space and a theory that 78-year-old humans should give birth as they die. Unfortunately what might work as pointless banter for the ears gains little when in cartoon form.
Toby Dantzic, The Telegraph, 23rd April 2010The Ricky Gervais Show Review: Drawing A Blank
I'm a fan of a lot of Ricky Gervais's work, including his audio podcasts with Karl Pilkington, and I inevitably enjoyed this as well. The whole point of a cartoon in this context, however, infinitely evades me.
Tom Ford, On The Box, 22nd April 2010Top 10 British comedy films
At last Ricky Gervais has done it. He's finally made a film that's good. And this got me thinking about my favourite all time British comedy films. And here they are, in chronological order to avoid favouritism.
Dave Heckler, UKTV, 22nd April 2010Ricky Gervais on The Ricky Gervais Show
'You don't want to hear two people trying to be Stephen Fry'
Tim Lusher, The Guardian, 21st April 2010BBC announces new Gervais and Merchant sitcom
The BBC announces Life's Too Short, a new sitcom pilot written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant about dwarf actor Warwick Davis.
British Comedy Guide, 21st April 2010Gervais's comedy army
Bill Hicks, Stewart Lee and a nursery rhyme with a 'blue' ending. Ricky Gervais reveals the moments that put comedy hairs on his chest.
Andrew Dickens, ShortList, 15th April 2010Ricky Gervais went on diet after gorging on sausages
Ricky Gervais has disclosed how he went on a diet after disgusting himself by gorging on 11 sausages in one sitting.
Heidi Blake, The Telegraph, 14th April 2010Ricky Gervais 'says no to bank's £1m offer to perform'
Ricky Gervais has revealed he turned down a bank's £1 million offer for a corporate gig, calling the sum "disgusting".
Natalie Jamieson, BBC News, 14th April 2010