Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

  • Profession: Actor
  • Place/Date of Birth: Reading, Berkshire, 25 June 2020

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger was named TV and Film Book of the Year after it was turned into a Hollywood hit starring Meryl Streep.

Ricky plans Extras exit - Mar 20 2007
Ricky Gervais has decided not to make a third series of his hit comedy show Extras, it’s been revealed.

The comedian will bow out as acting extra Andy Millman with an Office-style one-off special, penned by him and writing partner Stephen Merchant.

"Ricky and Stephen are writing one more episode of Extras and that will be it," a spokesman for Ricky said.

"There is no storyline or cast yet, and things are in their very early stages."

The first two series of BBC2 show Extras featured celebrity cameos from the likes of Orlando Bloom, Kate Winslet and Ben Stiller. It’s not known who might appear in the final episode.

Ricky recently said a third series was unlikely.

His next project will be an ITV series based on his best-selling children’s book, Flanimals.

The joke’s on Ricky - Mar 1 2007
Ricky Gervais has revealed the secret of his successful stand-up routine - being the butt of his own jokes.

The Emmy-award winning actor and writer is currently touring the country with his latest one-man show Fame, but he insists he would never let his own celebrity go to his head.

"I’m always the one getting the raw deal and being outwitted. I’m not going out there as a winner," he says of the show. "I’ve got to be the butt of all the jokes. Any comedy has got to come back to the performer’s own inadequacies.

"I’ve never understood why a comedian would come on and say ’Aren’t I clever?’ That feeling that you’re better than an audience is ridiculous in a comedian."

The 45-year-old also confirmed that after two acclaimed series, Extras may have run its course now.

"I think it’s the end. I feel we’ve done everything we can with it. I won’t definitively say never again, like we did with The Office. But I can’t see another series at the moment."

Gervais defends himself after joke - Jan 17 2007
Comedian Ricky Gervais has defended himself after making a joke about the killing of prostitutes just weeks after five were found dead in Suffolk.

The award-winning comic, who is on tour with his live show Fame, recounted a story at his first venue in Glasgow about a time he was asked for his advice on becoming famous.

"Go out and kill a prostitute," was his advice, he told the audience, before adding: "I won’t do this bit in Ipswich."

Jim Duell, the father of 19-year-old Tania Nicol, who was one of the five victims of the Ipswich red-light killings, criticised the comedian’s remarks.

"These days they want to make a joke out of everything," he told the Ipswich Evening Star.

"If this comedian is saying things like this he is trampling on a lot of emotions. I feel he’s just being uncaring, quite honestly."

Gervais, who brings his show to Ipswich in March, stressed that the conversation he referred to in the show happened five years ago, and he was talking about people who will do anything to become famous.

"I do want people to know that that happened five years ago and is not related to anything now," he said.

Steve Wright, 48, of Ipswich, has been charged with the murders of Miss Nicol, Gemma Adams, 25, Paula Clennell, 24, Anneli Alderton, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29.

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Biography

Originally from Reading, Ricky Gervais now lives in Notting Hill. He once delivered for a pizza company but got the sack, and then went into the music business. He managed two as then unknown bands, one of which turned out to be Suede, and after that worked in radio at XFM and guesting for Mary Anne Hobbs’ Radio One show.

Ricky began to get a bit of recognition when he started appearing on The 11 O’Clock Show, where his unorthodox monlogues and strange interviewing technique began to attract attention. Ricky shot to wider fame with his excellent satirical comedy The Office which took Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards. Millions of luckless proles forced to work in dreary offices will be forever grateful to Ricky for finding the humour in their tragic plight. Thanks mate. Not to mention the sheer horror of working anywhere near Staines.

Since then Ricky has gone from strength to strength, releasing two successful comedy DVDs - ’Animals’ and ’Politics’; The Office has launched the careers of MacKenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Martin Freeman (forthcoming film The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy), and Ricky has giggled his way through interviews with buddy Jonathan Ross, and guesting on Xfm. New series Extras is already well in the pipeline. Not to mention those Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, and many other awards that must be proudly displayed on his mantlepiece.

November 2007

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