Ricky Gervais
- 63 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, executive producer and stand-up comedian
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Ricky Gervais: SuperNature review
As is all too frequent these days, the longest riff is reserved for the humiliation of trans people.
Nick Hilton, The Independent, 24th May 2022Ricky Gervais: SuperNature review
"Comedy evolves," Ricky Gervais tells his SuperNature audience as he explains the nature of stand-up. But his comedy barely does.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th May 2022Ricky Gervais: SuperNature review - Gervais's laziest special yet
Ricky Gervais knows exactly which buttons to press, but his overreliance on old material and played-out angles makes his latest special uncharacteristically tedious.
Jonathon Wilson, Ready Steady Cut, 24th May 2022Netflix is carving out a niche for itself as the home of transphobic comedy
Ricky Gervais's new special SuperNature unsurprisingly includes anti-trans vitriol.
Mary Kate Carr, The AV Club, 24th May 2022Ricky Gervais's anti-trans special proves Netflix is on no-one's side but its own
Gervais's schtick is as predictable as it gets - and serves as further proof to an audience that Netflix has approached with simpering, condescending appeals that the streamer is not on anyone's side but its own.
Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 24th May 2022I watched the new Ricky Gervais stand-up special so you don't have to
Gervais is truly off-putting in SuperNature, a detestable combination of smug and obtuse. Only two of his bits are any good - one about a platypus, and a touching one about how Gervais and his male relatives and friends express affection. Both of these are too little too late, though. His retirement can't come soon enough.
Clare Martin, Paste Magazine, 24th May 2022Ricky Gervais's After Life-inspired Nottingham bench vandalised
A bench inspired by the final series of a Ricky Gervais TV show about loss has been broken into bits by vandals.
BBC, 23rd May 2022Ricky Gervais donates £427k to animal charities
Platinum Ticket sales for Ricky Gervais's UK tour dates of his stand-up show 'Supernature' raised profits of £427,243.42, which Gervais has split evenly and donated to three worldwide animal charities.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th May 2022Ricky Gervais says 'smart' people don't get offended at his jokes
Ricky Gervais has opened up about his style of comedy as well as touching on taboo subjects.
Tamara Davison, Evening Standard, 19th May 2022Ricky Gervais 'lost all respect' for Piers Morgan after TalkTV Taliban interview
Comedian Ricky Gervais has weighed in on Piers Morgan's Tuesday interview with the official Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen on his TalkTV show Uncensored.
Rebecca Cook, The Mirror, 11th May 2022