Ricky Gervais
- 63 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, executive producer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 40
Who's the real Ricky Gervais?
Life, death, Bowie, Brent and beyond - nothing is off-limits as Ricky Gervais shares all with Balance.
Balance, 9th October 2017Ricky Gervais interview
Ricky Gervais on cutting jokes, taking a knee and his new Netflix show about death.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 4th October 2017Non-Office viewer watches The Office film
The one gripe I have is that there is no transition from everyone hating Brent to everyone forgiving him. When did their epiphany happen?
Anglonerd, 27th September 2017What happened to the comedy trademark?
Comedians once embraced a signature quip or look, so why have such tropes fallen out of favour?
James Kettle, The Guardian, 7th August 2017How The Office changed the British Sitcom
It was 16 years ago this month that The Office debuted on UK screens, and it remains to this day a high watermark of British comedy. It's perhaps the only 21st Century sitcom that can rival the stalwart classics of Blackadder and Fawlty Towers et al in terms of its lasting impact on UK popular culture.
Rob Keeling, Cult Box, 27th July 2017Star comics on camera in their early Fringe days
A stash of film shot in the 1990s chronicles the rise of comedy's big names including Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Jo Brand.
Dan Glaister, The Guardian, 16th July 2017Ricky Gervais, comedy review
Much more than another day at the office.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 10th July 201716 years of The Office: David Brent's 12 finest moments
16 years ago on 9th July 2001 we were first introduced to David Brent, the general manager of Wernham Hogg, a fictitious paper company in Slough, and the role that made Ricky Gervais a household name.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 9th July 2017Ricky Gervais slammed for insenstive AIDS joke tweet
"The 80's called (and Jim Davidson shortly after) they want their prejudiced jokes back."
Attitude Magazine, 21st June 2017Ricky Gervais interview
Though it's only been 16 years since we first met David Brent on The Office, it's not an understatement to say that Ricky Gervais's tragic-comic creation utterly changed the landscape of TV comedy.
Stacey Wilson Hunt, Vulture, 21st June 2017