Ricky Gervais

Sean Lock raps Ricky Gervais over jibe row

Comic Sean Lock has blasted Ricky Gervais for using the word "mong" - calling it "lazy comedy".

Is Ricky Gervais the new Woody Allen or a witless bore?

Ricky Gervais is in danger of turning into a bad parody of his greatest creation.

Ricky Gervais' bad day at the office

For a man who admits he is 'one false move away from Jim Davidson', his latest schtick is either career suicide - or PR genius.

Storm over 'mong' jibes by TV's Ricky Gervais

Comic Ricky Gervais was rapped by disability groups last night for a string of "mong" jokes.

Ricky Gervais, please stop using the word 'mong'

The comedian is back on Twitter but some of his language is not welcome.

Gervais slams critics over 'Offensive' tweets

Ricky Gervais has branded his critics "humourless" after he was blasted by officials at a Down Syndrome charity for persistently posting a derogatory word associated with the condition on his Twitter.com page.

The makers of A League Of Their Own have got the title spot on. It stands alone, and seems proud to do so, as the crudest, crassest, most depressing programme on TV, although I haven't watched BBC Three recently so stand to be corrected. On last week's show there were jokes - using the term in same sense that Jedward call themselves singers - about giving Arsène Wenger oral sex, giggling about men kissing, Heather Mills having one leg and a comedian shouting "fucking posh fish" at a tank of fish (as opposed to randomly turning on the underwater upper classes).

There is another problem with the show. It's rubbish. Here's a joke from James Corden on what Phil Taylor likes to have for dinner: "Double eggs, treble chips then finish on a double ice cream." "I'm only joking," said Corden, helpfully, at one point. Corden appears to be turning into Ricky Gervais playing James Corden. Maybe the whole thing is a Corden in-joke, The Office of the comedy quiz world. There has to be something to explain its excruciating awfulness.

GQ: Life's Too Short exclusive

A video in which Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais discuss the clothing choices of Warwick Davis.

Interview: Stephen Merchant, comedian, actor, writer

It might not seem possible to live in the shadow of someone else when you are a towering 6ft 7ins tall, yet for a time, that was the impression Stephen Merchant gave. The 36-year-old, who co-wrote and co-directed the award-winning comedies The Office and Extras, often appeared to play second fiddle to the egregious Ricky Gervais.

Ricky Gervais: 'I may have been wrong about Twitter'

I may have been wrong about Twitter. I think I'm still right about how awful it is that celebrity couples tweet one another publicly, (get a fucking room... nauseating), and that, engaging with idiots is quite undignified, but I was wrong to just rule it out due to those things.