Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais won't host Top Gear as he can't drive

After reports suggested he might take over from the sacked BBC star, the comedian said he feels he would not bring much to the role.

Ricky Gervais could bring back hit show Derek

The 53-year-old Office star has said he "might" bring back the show because he loved the main character so much.

Ricky Gervais interview

This week sees the DVD release of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, with Ricky Gervais back in action as the museum director Doctor McPhee. This sees him reunited with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan and the much-missed Robin Williams.

Gervais talks to HuffPostUK about why he was so tickled by this particular franchise, what and who makes him laugh and what made Williams so special...

Ricky Gervais movie to get Netflix premiere

Ricky Gervais' new contemporary comedy film Special Correspondents is to premiere worldwide on Netflix next year, the streaming service announced Monday.

Mr Nasty: Hi-de-Hi and 1980s hardline left wing comedy

In this blog a couple of days ago, Ricky Gervais' TV series Extras was mentioned. I had not realised that comedy scriptwriter Mark Kelly - an occasional popper-upper in this blog - had, at one time, been a real TV extra. He also used to perform stand-up under the name Mr Nasty.

Nurse was one of the radio comedies upgraded with moving pictures. Esther Coles was terrific as Liz, a careworn Community Psychiatric Nurse administering salutary chats and sedatives to a whole host of comic grotesques.

The grotesques were all played by Paul Whitehouse, as they seemingly always are. Whitehouse has been shapeshifting outrageously for many years, first in The Fast Show, then in 2005's Help (a similar endeavour where he played each of a psychiatrist's 20 or so patients), but most recently in a series of adverts for car insurance. This has had the unfortunate effect of making what should be virtuoso appear merely so-so. In Nurse his transformations were a distraction from what was a rather wonderful study of those who need help and those who give it.

Small strands of Liz's home life were dotted around the periphery - an ex-husband, a teenage son, both at the other end of the phone - suggesting that this was a series with legs. Take out the Whitehouse showboating and you had something both funny and poignant. So much recent TV comedy seems to have become very, very sad - Nurse was similar in timbre to Getting On (set in a hospital geriatric ward) or Ricky Gervais's Derek (set in a nursing home). All a world away from the karaoke catchphrase comedies of the Nineties where kids would be trilling 'Suits you sir,' the next day. Comedy has become essentially non comic.

Is new comedy 'Nurse' too sugary sweet?

The jokes have been made already ('Goodness, this is a long Aviva car insurance advert') and the comparisons to Ricky Gervais' Derek have been posted well in advance. And it's true that Paul Whitehouse's bittersweet new sitcom for BBC Two, about a hard-pressed Community Psychiatric Nurse, does bear an unfortunate and uncanny resemblance to both. But here's the rub - the Aviva adverts are funnier. And it's so soppy that it makes Derek look like a Michael Haneke film.

David Brent... according to Ricky Gervais

The Office creator and star delves into the motivations behind his chilled out entertainer.

Ricky Gervais acting classes just keep getting better

Over the past few daysRicky Gervais has taken a break from bath selfies, hip hop singalongs and his moody cat Ollie and has instead been sharing his top tips for acting out a wide range of scenarios.

Doc Brown to star in Ricky Gervais's 'Life on the Road'

The rapper - otherwise known as actor Ben Bailey Smith - will star with the former office manager in the spoof rock documentary.