Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais interview

An interview with Ricky Gervais to promote Derek being shown on Netflix in the US.

Ricky Gervais plans a David Brent tour

Comedian asks Twitter followers to suggest venues for Brent character's 'first world tour', after alleged album bidding war.

Birthday boy Ricky Gervais shares childhood photo

Ricky Gervais is well-known for his stand-up routines based around monkeys and has revealed when his fascination all started - with a special birthday tweeted picture.

Ricky Gervais 6% less good looking than Johnny Depp

According to Gervais's own Twitter poll, the comedy star is marginally less attractive than the Hollywood heartthrob.

Derek to make Netflix debut in September

Ricky Gervais' most recent TV series, Derek, is to make its debut on Netflix later this year, it has been announced.

Review: David Brent's guitar tutorial

For a character as soaked in pathos as David Brent, only the most depressing of hobbies would have been fitting for the Slough middle-manager 10 years down the road, and fortunately Ricky Gervais found it in the world of the YouTube guitar tutorial.

A biography of idiocy - how the show came about

The Ricky Gervais Show Series 3 was released on DVD this week. To celebrate this final chapter I thought I'd tell the lovely readers of The Huffington Post the story of how we got here.

Ricky Gervais's GQ Interview

Ricky Gervais is well aware that he sometimes annoys people even when he doesn't mean to.

I had managed to resist the allure of The Wright Way up until this week. If you watched the Ricky Gervais sitcom Extras, you would understand what I mean when I say that The Wright Way is a real world When The Whistle Blows. It is completely, and I mean completely, unredeemable in every conceivable way.

I know that Ben Elton is an easy and popular target nowadays, but let's face it; if this is what he is producing then he kind of deserves it. Perhaps ironically, The Wright Way does everything wrong that it possibly could. The writing is just horrible. Horrible to the point I was physically wincing every couple of minutes. There was even some 'yoot speak' in there this week. Every joke (and I use the term very loosely) was signposted from eight miles off, and almost exclusively unfunny.

The characters are neither believable nor wacky enough to be anything of interest, and the lines are delivered in an off-putting pantomime-style shout which makes the performances stilted to the point of being almost unwatchable.

I spoke last week about not really getting the 'live audience' set up, but that doesn't always mean the death of a show. However, the laughter track on this only highlighted more the complete absence of my laughter. I like to think that I go into things with an open mind, happy to have my predictions shattered, but watching a second episode of this would be tantamount to emotional self immolation.

If you have any love in your heart for the Elton of old, the one who brought us Blackadder and The Young Ones, then I implore you: do not watch this show. Also burn any copies of the Radio Times which list it. And your TiVo box, in case it accidentally records it.

Interview: Ricky Gervais

Hit Office character David Brent to return for special Youtube shows as comic reveals why he is axing The Ricky Gervais Show.