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Ricky Gervais

English comedian (born 1961)

Ricky Dene Gervais (jər-VAYZ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director and musician. He co-created, co-wrote, and acted in the British television sitcoms The Office (2001–2003), Extras (2005–2007), and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) with Stephen Merchant. He also created, wrote and starred in Derek (2012–2014) and After Life (2019–2022).^[1]

Gervais has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and the Rose d'Or twice (2006 and 2019). In 2003, The Observer named Gervais one of the 50 funniest performers in British comedy.^[2] In 2007, he was placed at No. 11 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups,^[3] and at No. 3 in their 2010 list.^[4] In 2010, he was included in the Time 100 list of World's Most Influential People.^[5]

Gervais initially worked in the music industry. He attempted a career as a pop star in the 1980s as the singer of the new-wave act Seona Dancing. The band did have success in the Philippines with the song "More to Lose".^[6] He also managed the then-unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. He appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 between 1998

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Now synonymous with one of the most successful sitcoms of recent memory, Ricky Gervais' career has also encompassed a variety of roles which cumulatively reveal a far more subtle talent than seemed apparent at first. He was born on the 25th June, 1961 in Reading. After attending UCL, he drifted into a strange variety of jobs including briefly managing the band Suede and fronting a New Romantic group called Seona Dancing, which may have been intended seriously but which was mercilessly parodied later on.

His comedy career began when he met Stephen Merchant while working at London radio station XFM, while also acting as music advisor on This Life (BBC, 1996). He made his television debut in a one-off comedy show called 'Golden Years' (Comedy Lab, Channel 4, tx. 8/9/1999), which he co-wrote with Merchant, and in which he inaugurated his gallery of awkward, socially inept losers by playing Clive Meadows, a David Bowie-obsessed oddball. He then acquired greater attention by playing a caricatured version of himself on The 11 O'Clock Show (Channel 4, 1998): a bigoted, xenophobic character who was as irritating as he was funny. A spin-off series, Meet Ricky Gervais (Channel 4, 2000) was ignored at the time but, in retrospect, can be seen as hinting at many of his com