Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais leaves stage due to heart attack fears

The 55-year-old comedian shocked fans at Bristol's Colston Hall last night when he left the stage for 10 minutes due to a health scare.

Ricky Gervais: Humanity, review

It feels as though British stand-up has gone a bit quiet in the past few years, at least compared to its morale-boosting boom period during the post-Credit Crunch bust. Is that partly due to the absence of Ricky Gervais?

It's a sturdy lineup for Mr Norton, who currently appears to have no competition whatsoever in the talkshow stakes. Tonight sees Tom Hiddleston chatting about new movie Kong: Skull Island; Ruth Wilson talking about Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre; Ricky Gervais on his new standup tour; and Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire on appearing in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at London's Old Vic. Oh, and Tinie Tempah playing live.

Ricky Gervais meets Garry Shandling: Most awkward yet

When Shandling makes a coffee and Gervais is stunned not to be offered one, it is the closest television has ever got to truth and feels genuinely hard to watch.

Ricky Gervais' shtick gets tricky in Trump & Brexit era

Playing a brash, bigoted bore in the Trump and Brexit era is double trouble for comedian-actor Ricky Gervais.

"I use irony, saying the wrong things so that hopefully people will understand the right things," Gervais told Reuters. "But now it's too dangerous. I get the wrong round of applause! I have to be so careful about what I say."

Ricky Gervais pledges profits of next gig to dog rescue

Ricky Gervais has pledged to give the profits of his next warm-up gig to a dog rescue charity in Devon.

Ricky Gervais: There's 'no point' marry Jane Fallon

Ricky Gervais ''doesn't see the point'' in marrying his partner of 32 years, Jane Fallon, as he believes they are married in all ways except ''from in the eyes of God''.