Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais and Jane Fallon attend the Time 100 Gala celebrating the Time 100 issue of the Most Influential People In The World at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2013 in New York.
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Ricky Gervais is such a big fan of ours
I’m incredibly fond and proud of 'The Ricky Gervais Show'. What started out as a bit of a laugh and a little experiment with a new-fangled thing called ‘podcasting’ slowly turned into a global cult – but without all the brainwashing and stuff.
We had lunch and got to ask him any questions we wanted ... And I remember going home and thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh. If nothing else happens except that I got to have lunch with Ricky Gervais, this is amazing.’ And now — look. It’s 10 years later and we made, like, a whole show.More quotes »
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YouTube's Comedy Week shows how much comedy has changed
a live-streamed launch from LA on Sunday, the week of dedicated programming will pool together the high-profile likes of Ricky Gervais, David Mitchell, Ben Stiller and Sarah Silverman with up-and-comers who sound more like pop acts than comedy folk: Danisnotonfire, 6:56 AM from The Telegraph Read more »
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Fitzy & Wippa, a goat and Psy
How to make a successful YouTube video. The radio funnymen are stoked to be involved in the event, with big wigs such as Ricky Gervais, Arnold Schwarzenegger and comedian Sarah Silverman fronting the campaign internationally. "Ricky Gervais is such a big fan 2:10 AM from Adelaide Now Read more »
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Ian Burrell: YouTube's global reach is making it a powerful rival to TV
up as a student, has a staggering 1.8 million subscribers and has registered 377 million views. To give you a comparison, Ricky Gervais, the mainstream British comedian who has done most to engage with the YouTube audience, has 128,000 subscribers and 15 million 5/19/13 from The Independent Read more »
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'The Office' US 2005-2013: A retrospective of Dunder Mifflin's finest
a lot of beauty in ordinary things, isn't that the point?" - Pam Beesley Back in 2004, it was announced that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's award-winning BBC series The Office was to be remade in the US. Understandably, reaction among UK audiences was 5/19/13 from Digital Spy Read more »
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The “Office” Finale
much abandoned—and to some extent inverted—the original themes of the show. “The Office” was an American interpretation of Ricky Gervais’s caustic British mockumentary, which was, among other things, a devastating critique of reality TV. When the American from The New Yorker Read more »
