Ricky Gervais

Gervais fails to make girlfriend Jane Fallon laugh

Ricky Gervais has landed back to reality with a bump. The comedian failed to crack a smile as he carried a giant umbrella around NYC, sheltering himself and partner Jane Fallon from the rain

Ricky Gervais: "No more Globes for me"

Ricky Gervais has ruled out a fourth stint as host at the Golden Globes - insisting he's going out on a high.

Ricky Gervais suprises everyone... by being tame

After last year's headline-making roast of Hollywood's elite, and his promise to take no prisoners this year, it's fair to say that expectations were high when Ricky Gervais took to the podium to host his third Golden Globes Awards last night.

Ricky Gervais at Golden Globes: What the critics say

Ricky Gervais returned to host the Golden Globes for the third time last night and his performance received a fairly negative response from critics.

Is comedy cruelty a laughing matter?

The purpose of comedy, said 17th-century playwright Moliere, "is to correct the vices of men" and no one, he insisted, should be exempt. Ricky Gervais would surely agree.

Golden Globes to put Ricky Gervais on a 7 second delay

Executives at the major broadcaster NBC, which will screen the Golden Globes for five hours in primetime, have insisted on a 'seven-second delay' as they are feeling more than a little nervous about Ricky Gervais's third turn as host.

Ricky Gervais mocks celebs days before Golden Globes

Ricky Gervais is taking the mickey out of US celebs again - just days before hosting the Golden Globes.

Video: Ricky Gervais set to host 2012 Golden Globes

Comedian Ricky Gervais is set to host the Golden Globes for the third time on 15 January.

Despite causing controversy last year, Gervais said audiences can expect a performance with the same tone.

The comedian said he initially thought the organisers, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, would be a "challenge" but he says they now know what to expect from him.

Stephen Merchant 'too exhausted' to write second series

Stephen Merchant, who co-wrote The Office and Extras with Ricky Gervais, has admitted that he thinks he will struggle to pen the second series of Life's Too Short, as he is too tired.

The sitcom that appears to prove The Office's Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are creatively bankrupt, Life's Too Short distilled everything they've done before (a mockumentary format poking fun at a disabled character, with meta-jokes and celebrity cameos) but did nothing new or interesting with those ingredients. For half the seven episodes, it didn't even feel like a Warwick Davis-starring sitcom, as so much was an excuse to shoehorn in Gervais, Merchant and a guest-star-of-the-week. Things improved slightly for the last three episodes, once the storyline with Warwick's divorce became a bigger focus, but my goodwill was exhausted by then. It just wasn't insightful or clever, as everything here had been done better in Extras, and poor Warwick was forced to play himself-doing-a-David-Brent impersonation. A sore disappointment from two writers who used to demand only the best, but are now happy to devise stupid shows for their friends (see also Karl Pilkington's An Idiot Abroad).