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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais was born was born June 25, 1961 to Jerry and Eva, who even admitted that Ricky's birth was unplanned and his father was drunk when he filled out his birth certificate, which is the reason for the strange spelling in Ricky's middle name.
Gervais claims that his family, "much like The Waltons," made fun of each other regularly.
Gervais went to secondary school Ashmead School and went to further education in University College London, which is where he met his future partner Jane Fallon, also an actor.
Gervais currently lives in Hampstead, London, with his partner.

Gervais has contributed to the BAFTA-winning The Sketch Show (ITV), penning several sketches. His mainstream-TV debut came in September 1998 as part of Channel 4's "Comedy Lab" series of pilots. His one-off show Golden Years focused on a David Bowie-obsessed character called Clive Meadows.
In August 1999, while in a BBC production course, Stephen Merchant had to make his own short subject. He chose to make a docu-soap parody, set in an office. This sketch later formed the basis of the interview episode. With help from Ash Atalla, Merchant passed this tape on to the BBC's Head of Entertainment Paul Jackson at the Edinburgh Fringe, who then passed it on to Head of Comedy Jon Plowman, who eventually commissioned a full-pilot script from Merchant and Gervais.

Gervais released a children's book in 2004, Flanimals (illustrated by his friend Rob Steen), which depicted nonsense animals. After the success of this book, he released its sequel More Flanimals in 2005, with Flanimals of the Deep coming the next year. A new Flanimals book, Day of the Bletching, was released in October 2007.

Gervais is currently working on two more movies:
The Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The Side of Truth

Ricky Gervais is now one of the most famous British comedians and is extremely popular in the UK and is becoming very popular the world.


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Ricky Gervais - news / articles


  • Fame keeps Gervais from box office triumph - 10 October 2009
    -A remake of Fame has beat Ricky Gervais' new comedy The Invention Of Lying to the top of the U.K. box office last weekend (03-04Oct09).- -The Office star's movie, about a world where no one has ever lied, debuted at number two with $2.6 million , while the modern upda


  • Garner plays pranks on Gervais - 19 September 2009
    -Jennifer Garner played a series of pranks on Ricky Gervais on the set of The Invention Of Lying - after he laid down strict rules during filming.- -The upcoming movie was co-directed by Gervais and Matthew Robinson, but The Office creator Gervais placed a series of co


  • Gervais rejected star turn in Night at the Museum 2 - 17 May 2009
    -Actor Ricky Gervais turned down a starring role opposite Ben Stiller in Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian - so he could direct his own self-penned movie.- -The Extras star appeared as Dr McPhee in the first film of the adventure comedy franchise in 2006 a

Ricky Gervais - what members say


  • Office, The - Series 1
  • Office, The - Series 1 review by from Slough
    Rated - 5 stars 24 September 2004
    ...Absolutely brilliant. Ricky Gervais as David Brent is an amazing contortionist - able to put both feet in his mouth at once, and still be able to dig himself further into...  
  • Office, The - Series 2
  • Office, The - Series 2 review by from NEWTOWNARDS
    Rated - 5 stars 27 October 2003
    ...e all the better for only comprising of 12 episodes, all masterfully crafted by Ricky Gervais. ...  
  • Ricky Gervais: Animals - Live
  • Ricky Gervais: Animals - Live review by A customer from Wiltshire, England
    Rated - 4 stars Funny - but not that funny! 12 January 2004
    ...Perhaps I expected too much. Ricky Gervais in undoubtedly funny. But this did not make me really laugh. It was amusing enough though. His brand of humour worked better in ...  

Ricky Gervais - filmography


  • Ghost Town on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ricky Gervais,  Tea Leoni,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: David Koepp
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 39,019 members
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  • Ricky Gervais - Live - Fame on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ricky Gervais
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ricky Gervais returns with this brand new stand up show, Fame, where he turns his comic attention to the world of the celebrity and everything that fame can bring, both good and bad. Ricky just keeps getting better and better as a stand-up and this show should be the funniest yet, after all, it's a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,000 members
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  • Stardust - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Charlie Cox,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,313 member
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  • Valiant on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  tim curry (voice),  John Hurt
    Director: Gary Chapman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    High-flying comedy adventure about a little pigeon whose biggest dream is to join the Royal Homing Pigeon Service and serving crown and country during World War II.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 34,894 members
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  • Dog Eat Dog on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Alan Davies,  John Thomson,  Ricky Gervais
    Director: Moody Shoaibi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four friends hit upon a get rich scheme to kidnap a writer's dog....unfortunately they nab the wrong pooch and end up with the local lunatic criminal on their tale in this likeable comedy set in London.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 404 members
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  • The Best Comedy DVD In The World on DVD
    Starring: Peter Kay,  Tommy Cooper,  Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Provides a compilation of some of the greatest comedy moments from Stand Up, Television and Film. Includes clips from: 'Bo Selecta', 'Little Britain', 'The Office', 'Monty Python', 'Only Fools And Horses', 'Carry On' and much much more. All profits from the sale of this video will be donated to the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,254 member
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