Ricky's Live Stand-up Show 'The Out Of England Tour' HBO Special
Ricky's recent coast to coast tour in July 2008 has been filmed for an HBO special which was broadcast on November 15th.
Extras Special on DVD in America
The Extras Christmas Special is out on DVD in the US. Originally it was only available as part of a box set but HBO have now relented and fans who already have series 1 & 2 can now complete their collection.
You can order it at Amazon US here.
Extras Box Set in US - Reviews
Released in its entirety on DVD in the US, Extras is "winning raves".
As the man says, "Gervais is riding high". Read the review here
and another from Dallas here.
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Total Film on Ricky's Reading Roots
and how his upbringing has influenced Cemetery Junction. Read the article here.
Empire Magazine talks to Ricky about Cemetery Junction
and get some early indications of what the film will be like. Read the article here.
Bid for Ricky's 'Flanbag' and support The Prostate Cancer Charity
You can be the proud owner of a unique Manbag tastefully adorned with a Pudloflaj, designed by Ricky himself. Take a look here and place a bid - proceeds to The Prostate Cancer Charity.
Bid For Ricky's T-Shirt
Ricky has painted a t-shirt which is being auctioned on Ebay - proceeds to Actionaid who are doing great work in developing countries. Here's the Ebay link and more about Actionaid here.
Interview in The Big Issue
Ricky talks about stand-up and Cemetery Junction... Read it here.
Ricky Headlines New York Comedy Festival
This November, Ricky will play New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall for one night only. Read more here at Chortle.
Filming Starts on Cemetery Junction
Ricky's next movie, and his first film collaborating with Stephen Merchant, has begun filming in London. Ricky stars alongside Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watson. Read more about Cemetery Junction in the press release and in Ricky's blog, which will have regular updates as filming progresses.
Major Office Retrospective
The BBC is set to broadcast a series of major retrospectives starting this summer with Series 1 of The Office. The three-and-a-half hour programme will include new interviews and deleted scenes. Read more in The Sun here.
The Office as study aid
Child psychologists are using David Brent's social faux pas to show how children pick up on socially embarrassing situations. Read about it here.
Stand-up Preview Review
As Ricky gets ready for his mini tour later this year, London's Ham and High newspaper went along to a recent warm-up show. Read their review here.
Ricky Gervais Live - 'Science' - UK tour starts August 09. Dates here.
A nice article about Ghost Town
'Big Hollywood' heaps praise on Ghost Town. Read the article here.
Vital Statistics.
The Ricky Gervais Show was downloaded 4,609,112 times in May.
The Ricky Gervais Guide to The English sold 200, 804 copies, the highest for a guide in one month. ('Medicine' has sold more but has been out longer obviously.)
And rickygervais.com was visited by 856,099 unique users.
More on the HBO animated series
TV Squad looks forward to the TV version of The Ricky Gervais Show, based on the record breaking audiobooks. Read more here.
Diamond Dog
A Bowie/Gervais composition gets taken literally. Watch here.
Podcast Animations on HBO
US TV company HBO have comissioned a series of animations based on The Ricky Gervais Show podcasts/audiobooks. (Buy the originals here while you still can)
Read more here from Parade.com And here from TV Scoop.
NATM 2 Q&A
Den of Geek website turns up at Claridges to talk to the cast of Night At The Museum 2.
Read here.
Happy Birthday To U(S version of The Office)
The Office - An American Workplace has reached its hundredth episode. Varity reports...
Read here.
In The Pink
Ricky has been interviewed by the Financial Times
Read here.
Noughties' Highlights
Ricky did well in the "Best of the decade list".
Read here.
Steve Merchant Speaks
Here's an interview with Ricky's tall "sidekick"...
Read here.
Cleese Criticises Comedy
The great John Cleese knows what he's talking about...
Read here.
More on North American TV's "Ricky Night"
The Winnipeg Free Press has more on The Comedy Network's back-to-back night of Gervais.
Read here.
Karl on Channel B
Karl has a new video about writing a book.
Watch here.
Brent Sans Frontieres
A global round-up of the various international remakes of The Office from The Guardian's TV Blog explores their common themes.
Read more here.
Flanimals hit Hollywood
The Guardian reports on reports in Variety about the Flanimals movie currently in production.
Read more here.
Ben Stiller says nice things about Ricky
in an interview for the Mail on Sunday.
Read here.
Meeting at the cemetery gates
A big graveyard-based interview with Ricky in the Daily Telegraph.
Read here.
Bambi in Extras
Someone's put an amazing amount of effort into putting Ian McKellen's masterclass scene from Extras to a bunch of clips from Bambi.
Watch here.
Import Export
Here's a little piece from a US perspective about importing UK TV shows.
Read here.
Israel gears up for its own Office
The Jerusalem Post has a water cooler chat with the writer of the latest international remake of The Office.
Read here.
Plea to end comedy repetition
In a plea to end comedy repetition, here's a great interview with Graham Linehan, writer of Father Ted amongst other things.
Read here.
Furry Monster News
A nice article about Ricky's new best friend.
Read here.
Ricky plays Grob
Ricky has created a new Flanimal illustration for a cancer charity.
Have a look and maybe
bid for it here .
Benefit Gig
There's a charity stand-up comedy show on Monday 8 June at the Comedy Store in London. While Ricky's not on the bill himself it's an excellent line-up and in aid of Kids Company. Get Tickets Here.
More about the Israeli Office
The Telegraph has uncovered more details about the cast of the Israeli remkae of The Office. Read here.
HBO Special Reviewed
DVD review site DVDTown has an article on Ricky's US stand-up show. Read here.
A nice article...
about the audiobooks and Karl Pilkington in particular. Read here.
Office VIII
Breaking news from the Middle East - The Office gets its eighth international remake. This time it's Israel. Read here.
Interview for US Comedy Special
New York's Daily News talks to Ricky about his HBO DVD and Ricky questions Elmo's consistency, sartorially speaking. Read here.
Backstreet Sesame Street
Another behind the scenes story from Sesame Street
Watch on YouTube.
Jarvis beating Gervais
Please bid for Ricky's pants. Currently, Jarvis Cocker's underwear is cleaning up. (Read about this at NME.com.)
Bid here at Ebay.
Les Less Miserable
Here's a nice article about Les Dennis and the consequences of his appearance in Extras.
Read here..
This Side Of The Truth set for U.S. release on 25 Sep this year. Here's the announcement...
Underpants Under The Hammer
A charity auction of signed celebrities' under garments is underway under the auspices of NNLSDropin, helping destitute asylum seekers.
Bid here at Ebay.
Nice article about humour.
A Times journalist's views on what's funny and when.
Read here.
Ricky on Graham Norton
YouTube has Ricky's recent appearance with Ronnie Corbett on The Graham Norton Show
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Karl Talks Telly
Karl did a little article for The Sun.
Read here.
Little article about Ricky and Elmo
Here's a considered piece of blogging about Ricky and Elmo. Read here.
Thank You
Ghost Town was this week's number 1 selling DVD in The UK
Buy it here.
Comic Relief 2009
Here's Ricky and Steve's contribution to this year's Red Nose Day on BBC1 in support of Comic Relief. Watch on YouTube
Sesame Street Outtakes Released
With Ricky's appearance on Sesame Street due in November, here's a sample of what not to expect when Ricky meets Elmo. Watch on YouTube.
Karl in Kiwi Conversation
A nice Karl interview; although we actually get about a million downloads a week now, apart from that it's lovely. Here it is.
Episode 4, Philosophy, Promo
There's a new podcast up at iTunes with an excerpt from the next episode in the new series of 'The Ricky Gervais Guide To...'
The show itself (Philosophy) will be out 17th March, meanwhile the free promo podcast is here(iTunes link).
PETA anti-fur campign
Ricky supplied the voice of a rabbit for a PETA campaign video along with PInk, who voiced a crocodile. More about this at the PETA web site.
Ricky voices anti-fur commercial
The Telegraph reports on Ricky's part in a video for the PETA anti-fur campaign launching in Paris tomorrow. Read the article here.
Gervais sketch hits peak for donations to Comic Relief
The BBC have announced that the moment when Ricky Gervais broke down and cried, in Comic Relief 2007, phone pledges hit an all time high. This quickly dropped however. See why here at YouTube Gervais is doing another piece for Comic Relief this year which will air Friday 13th March 2009.
Right to reply
Here's a nice interview with Karl in which he talks about what it's like working with Ricky. Read it here
A Very Good Article
about British comedy (And not just because he's nice about The Office). Read it here
US Stand-Up DVD Review
Ricky's HBO Special is out on DVD March 31 in America - here's the first review. Read more here
Exclusive Podcast at Shortlist
Ricky Steve and Karl got together to make a special podcast for Shortlist Magazine. Listen here
The Arts in review
Den of Geek have reviewed the latest Ricky Gervais Guide To... Read more here
Interview in The Times
The Times Online has an in-depth chat with Ricky about comedy infulences. Read more here
The Arts in The Times
The Times Online has a preview of The Ricky Gervais Guide To The Arts. Read more here
Obsessed With Film makes Ghost Town one of its films of the year
Matt Holmes writes: GHOST TOWN - Man, I was so ready to hate it but those Ricky Gervais re-writes, he aimed for Capra and he made a movie at least as good as Bill Murray's SCROOGED.
That's a big compliment. I said all I wanted to about this movie here.
Can't wait to see Gervais' THIS SIDE OF THE TRUTH which should be one of 2009's best.
Another idiot pretending to be me.
This time on "Twitter". I have no twitter page, facebook, myspace or any other outlet except rickygervais.com.
A nice article...
from California's Press Telegram about Ghost Town, stand-up and stuff. Here it is.
And the award goes to...
Ricky's won his first major film award in Hollywood, being named Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical at the International Press Academy Satellite Awards for his starring role in Ghost Town. Here's the list of winners
Ricky Wins Award
Ricky's won another British Comedy Award - best actor for his part in the Extras Xmas Special. Here's the video.
Podcast popularity continues unabated.
The Ricky Gervais podcasts were downloaded an average of 124,588 times a day in November. That's a total of 3,737,662 over the month worldwide.
Important Message from Ricky
It has come to my attention that once again someone on Facebook is passing themselves off as me.
I have no facebook page, no myspace page and this is the only official website.
Please inundate any other fakes you see with cries of "You're not the real Ricky".
But I am. Thank you. Ricky
Sneak Peek at Sequel to Night At The Museum
The Daily Mail has a first look at NATM 2 - with pics. It's here.
