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Ricky Gervais reveals The Office casting that surprised him: ‘He made it even better’

Gervais opened up about casting his breakthrough sitcom during an appearance on the ‘Smartless’ podcast

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Fans Appalled By The Food At Critics Choice Awards After Star Brutally Calls It Out On Stage

"Looks like first class on United."

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Ricky Gervais proves he really doesn’t care about his legacy in crass Netflix special Mortality

COMMENT: Despite its weighty title, ‘Mortality’ captures the co-creator of ‘The Office’ grumbling about his perceived critics and everyday annoyances, Kevin E G Perry finds

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Ricky Gervais reveals he cut Jason Momoa joke from Globes appearance over fears it was racist

The British comedian’s new Netflix special, ‘Mortality,’ came out Tuesday

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais lashes out at ‘middle-class, elitist’ critics in new stand-up special

Comedian has previously been criticised for jokes about trans community

The Independent UK

Harry Potter and Star Wars actor Warwick Davis made an OBE in New Year Honours

Davis got his first break in Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi at the age of just 11.

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais to skip Golden Globes

Comedian Ricky Gervais has admitted he's going to skip the Golden Globes ceremony next month despite being nominated for an award because it's "too far to go" and he'd prefer to stay at home with his girlfriend Jane Fallon and their cat.

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Ricky Gervais speaks out after LGBTQ+ backlash ahead of new Netflix special

He claims there’s ‘one thing it seems to be fine to take the mickey out of’

The Independent UK

Stranger Things to Y Crwydryn: the seven best shows to stream this week

Expect a fan-serving finale as the much-loved series wraps things up, plus a poetic odyssey through Wales that’s a melancholy treat

The Guardian - UK

The best comedy on TV this Christmas

Here are the best comedy shows to keep you chuckling despite being with your family

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais pays tribute to beloved dog from After Life with statue

The statue was erected on Sunday in Hemel Hempstead, where the comedy-drama was filmed

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Comedian Ricky Gervais unveils statue paying tribute to dog from After Life

The death of Vislor Antilly was announced earlier this year.

Evening Standard

Ricky Gervais donates eye-watering amount of tour money to charity

‘To celebrate my Mortality Tour, my Netflix Special, my Golden Globes nomination and the spirit of Christmas, I am donating £2.43m to animals’

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais donates almost £2.5m from tour proceeds to animal charities

It means the total amount of donations made across the comic’s four recent specials is more than £5 million.

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‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

New film is based on TV series inspired by The Office, whose lead character is said to resemble the chancellor

The Independent UK

Jeffrey Epstein dreamt up bizarre series starring Johnny Depp, Courtney Love – and even Stephen Fry

The disgraced financier had an idea for an interview series called ‘Strange Bedfellows’, but none of the stars he fantasised about featuring seem to be aware of its existence

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Ricky Gervais warned £5m mega-mansion on banks of River Thames at risk of 'life-threatening' floods

The comedian, 64, has already faced delays to the project due to the huge number of bats in the area

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Ricky Gervais warned his plan to rebuild riverside home is at risk of exposing him and others to dangerous flooding

In a blow for the comic, Ricky Gervais has been warned his plan to rebuild his riverside home is at risk of exposing him and others to dangerous flooding.

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Who will be in Celebrity Traitors 2026?

All the latest rumours following the season which took the nation by storm

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It Took A While, But They Eventually Made It: 34 Hollywood Stars Who Found Fame After 30

From minor roles to breakout performances that changed everything, these 34 Hollywood stars prove it’s never too late to make it big.

Evening Standard

These gutted stars who turned down Celebrity Traitors face snub for next series

As Jonathan Ross says Ricky Gervais rejected the BBC hit, The Standard hears famous faces who passed on The Celebrity Traitors are now ‘kicking themselves’

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Chadwick Boseman's widow to accept his Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Late actor Chadwick Boseman is to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame five years after his death and the award will be accepted on his behalf by his widow Simone Ledward-Boseman.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m still processing how awful it was’: your zero-star screen disasters

From a Dustin Hoffman performance less witty than a stunned mollusc to the worst piece of garbage ever inflicted on TV viewers, here are Guardian readers’ most atrocious watching experiences ever

The Guardian - UK

Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong

To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

The Guardian - UK

Penelope Wilton: ‘They wanted me to tone down my death in Shaun of the Dead. It was too frightening’

The venerable screen and stage star reveals why she insisted on meeting a bloody end in Edgar Wright’s zomcom, loved working with Ricky Gervais and which of her film roles has the biggest Rastafarian fanbase

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