Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais's disbelief at Derek DVD's 18 certificate

Ricky Gervais has been left stunned after censors gave the Derek DVD an 18 certificate.

Karl Pilkington: I owe my success to Ricky Gervais

He's returning to our TV screens to travel the globe yet again in The Moaning of Life 2, but Karl Pilkington says none of it would be possible if it wasn't for two people: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Ricky Gervais puts London home on market for £7,750,000

Ricky Gervais puts stunning London home on market for more than £7.7million, after splashing out on £10million mansion.

Ricky Gervais helps himself to an Emmy

Ricky Gervais gets big laughs as he helps himself to an Emmy and pretends to cry over his 'win'.

Ricky Gervais to release Life on the Road soundtrack

The Office creator will make a record of David Brent's songs to coincide with the release of his new film.

To celebrate 25 years of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse as a telly double act, they assemble a mock "audience with" show, featuring the pair impersonating celebrities from Ricky Gervais and a foul-mouthed Stephen Hawking to, for reasons unknown, Bill Gates. Questions from the "celebs" are then used to introduce clips of their work together. They may not want to be remembered by the number of gags that fall painfully flat over what is, at best, a very mixed hour.

Why can't the BBC do good comedy anymore? Recently we've had truly awful things such as Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown's Boys and, currently showing, the embarrassing Mountain Goats. The last time the BBC managed to provoke a laugh from me was with Murder In Successville on BBC3, a channel soon to be shoved online only.

And there were laughs in the one-off special of Burnistoun, but this was shown in Scotland only. When it comes to the BBC's mainstream, UK-wide comedy, where oh where is the good stuff?

Maybe they feel this terrible dearth of excellent comedy, as they're giving us a reunion show with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse looking back - yes, looking back - to the good old days.

The programme puts Enfield and Whitehouse on stage together in front of an admiring crowd and parodies the An Audience With... shows, but the nice twist is that when we flash to shots of the audience we see Enfield and Whitehouse in the crowd, dressed up as various famous people, and asking cheeky questions. Jimmy Carr, Harry Hill, Ricky Gervais and Prince Charles are all gloriously ridiculed and in between we have great clips of the comedy pair's old shows.

Martin Freeman: "Ricky Gervais made me laugh more"

Martin Freeman has praised his Office co-star and creator Ricky Gervais, saying that the writer made him laugh more than anyone else while they were filming the hit BBC comedy.

The Bad Education Movie review

The Bad Education Movie won't change the world, and viewers probably have to be both British and in the right frame of mind to best appreciate its highjinks, but this film will make a world of difference to Jack Whitehall's career, offering opportunities similar to those taken by James Corden and Ricky Gervais.

Ricky Gervais is the funniest man alive

In a sprawling, over-the-top Observer exclusive just before the Emmys, the creator and star of ]Derek talks about white angst, Laurel & Hardy and the Golden Globes.