Ricky Gervais
- 63 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director, executive producer and stand-up comedian
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Gervais raises £200k for charity in anti-touting deal
Over £200,000 has been raised so far for good causes from UK Platinum Ticket sales alone of Ricky Gervais's 120-date worldwide tour, Humanity. This figure will be split equally between the RSPCA and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th October 2017Ricky Gervais signs big money deal for SiriusXM show
Ricky Gervais will present an uncensored weekly talk show for US satellite broadcaster SiriusXM in a deal set to make the comic one of the world's highest-paid radio broadcasters.
i Newspaper, 19th October 2017Ricky Gervais: reality TV prays on the vulnerable
The funnyman says the shows 'appeal to the worst of our instincts' during talk at Oxford Union.
Janine Yaqoob, The Mirror, 14th October 2017Who's the real Ricky Gervais?
Life, death, Bowie, Brent and beyond - nothing is off-limits as Ricky Gervais shares all with Balance.
Balance, 9th October 2017Weirdest musical moments in British comedy
A selection of some of the strangest songs and musical moments in British comedy.
Anglonerd, 9th October 2017Ricky Gervais interview
Ricky Gervais on cutting jokes, taking a knee and his new Netflix show about death.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 4th October 2017Non-Office viewer watches The Office film
The one gripe I have is that there is no transition from everyone hating Brent to everyone forgiving him. When did their epiphany happen?
Anglonerd, 27th September 2017What happened to the comedy trademark?
Comedians once embraced a signature quip or look, so why have such tropes fallen out of favour?
James Kettle, The Guardian, 7th August 2017How The Office changed the British Sitcom
It was 16 years ago this month that The Office debuted on UK screens, and it remains to this day a high watermark of British comedy. It's perhaps the only 21st Century sitcom that can rival the stalwart classics of Blackadder and Fawlty Towers et al in terms of its lasting impact on UK popular culture.
Rob Keeling, Cult Box, 27th July 2017Star comics on camera in their early Fringe days
A stash of film shot in the 1990s chronicles the rise of comedy's big names including Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Jo Brand.
Dan Glaister, The Guardian, 16th July 2017