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Invention of Lying opens in New Zealand 26 Nov The NZ Herald chats with Ricky about the movie and more. Read here. Ricky and Elmo sing at Carnegie Hall A report on Ricky's New York Comedy Festival show with pic... Ricky's the one on the left. Read here. More Oscar-hosting speculation The L.A. Times has been running a readers' poll... Read here. Article on US TV comedy Irish newspaper The Independent discusses the rise of US sitcoms. Read here. Watch the video here. Cleese on Comedy Ricky gets a little mention in a John Cleese feature. Read here. Ricky pays a visit to Bikini Bottom The 10th anniversary special episode of SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Ricky, Tina Fey, Pink, Will Ferrell and Robin Williams, will air on November 6th at 8:00 p.m. EDT on Nickelodeon. Spectator takes a look at Ricky's new movie The American Spectator reviews The Invention of Lying. Read here. Film 4 Give Film Four... Stars. Here's the review... Read here. Results are in at Cinema Verdict The Invention of Lying reviewed... Read here. Ricky to host Oscars? Awards Daily tips Ricky for host of this year's Oscars. Read here. Magazine in Newspaper The Evening Standard reports on Ricky's takeover of Esquire this month. Read here. Daily Express Expresses Opinion The Express reviews The Invention of Lying Read here. Invention of Lying Review In Birmingham's Sunday Mercury... Read here. "The Invention of Lying is a Landmark Comedy" So says First Showing.net. Read here. The Seattle PI asks... ...What's So Great About Ricky Gervais? Read here. Ricky on the World Wide Welsh Wales Online reviews The Invention of Lying. Read here. New post in New York Post The New York Post's PopWrap section offers 5 truths about 'Invention of Lying' Read here. Ricky's T4 Takeover Ricky becomes guest presenter on Channel 4's T4 this week. Watch some sneak peeks here. 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. From The Red Carpet Articles from the premiere of Night At The Museum 2. Read what Empire said here. And this from The Guardian. Happy Birthday To U(S version of The Office) The Office - An American Workplace has reached its hundredth episode. Varity reports... 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. Diamond Dog A Bowie/Gervais composition gets taken literally. Watch 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. Box Office Battle In the US, Night At The Museum 2 has been vying with the new Terminator film for top spot in the movie charts. Here's HitFix's report on how NATM2 wins hands down. And these are from contactmusic.com and googlenews. Night At The Museum 2 Wales Online talked to the cast and has this to say... Read the article 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. 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. Hot Weather Wildlife Tips Ricky would like you to spare a thought for the animals this summer. Read about practical things you can do here. YouTube Monkey News Here's a new Monkey News animation from YouTube... Watch here. Ricky to perform with Springsteen in New York. Tickets might cost a couple of hundred quid, but it is for charity Find out more here. Predictive Text Oscarologist picks This Side of The Truth Read his blog here. Bloke from Spaced Blasts Ricky The Daily Mail reports Simon Pegg's comments on the radio. Read the article here. Voice Recognition Entertainment Weekly vote Ricky's as one of the great Simpson's guest voices. Ricky Oscar Bravo? America's premier entertainment mag puts Ricky to the vote. Check out the poll here. Extras Special out on DVD in the UK Long after its release in the US, the Extras Christmas Special comes to the UK in DVD form - available on its own and as part of a complete series box set from November 3rd. You can order now from Amazon.co.uk here. 6 EMMY Nominations for Extras Xmas Special and 8 for The Office Nominations have been announced for this year's Primetime Emmys. Extras is in the running for best writing, direction and editing as well as best made-for-TV movie. Ricky and Ashley Jensen are up for best lead actor and best supporting actress respectively. The Office is nominated 8 times; for writing, direction, editing and sound with Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson up for acting awards and the show itself is shortlisted for best comedy series. Ricky is an icon Artist Michael Forbes shows his new collection at The Opera Gallery in New Bond Street from Friday 27th June. He mixes pop culture icons like Elvis with Mickey Mouse and Marilyn with Batman. Ricky got a painting all to himself. (sort of) here are some examples. The Office - A global phenomenon The Emmy Magazine has an article comparing international versions of The Office here. See for yourself what the French-Canadian David Brent (named David Gervais as an homage to Ricky) is like in this clip. Plus here's a clip of the French version called Le Bureau. Look at the little French Robin Ince. Extras wins two more awards Extras, the HBO-BBC sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, has taken the gong for best comedy at the Banff international TV awards. Extras also earned a Special Jury prize for best entertainment. Extras also won a Globe, a Bafta and an Emmy this year. Not bad for the disappointing follow up to The Office This Side of the Truth extras casting Walk-on role castings over in Boston, for Ricky's new film, made the local paper... Read the article here. Six Degrees of Separation Ricky features in a game of six degrees... Read on here Plus an in-depth interview that's surfaced. Read it here. Question Time Last Year, Ricky made the Time Magazine 100 most influential people in the world. Here he takes questions from its readers. Read the Q&A here . Number One Fan A funny interview with the American David Brent, Steve Carrell, in which he dishes the dirt on Ricky's toilet etiquette Read it here . 'Happiness' and 'Slough' in same sentence. An interesting article about humour, happiness and whether Slough is Ricky's fault. Read it here. Unintended Christening Ricky unknowingly names hot new beat combo 'Does It Offend You Yeah?' Details at the NME here. UK and US Comedy. Discuss. An article in which The Office is used to help illustrate the difference between British and American humour. (Or "humor" if you're in the US) Read it here. Matt Groening wants Ricky back "We loved having him on the show. Whatever he wants to do - we'd love to have his character return. Or he could do something completely new," Groening said. Full story here... Simpsons Songs CD News from Billboard magazine in the US tells of a new compilation of songs from the The Simpsons which will herald the premiere of the 19th series this September. Ricky's serenading ballad 'Lady', which his character sings to Marge, is included. read more here Sky High Ricky's episode of The Simpsons reaches 2.2 million viewers in th UK - Sky's highest rated Simpsons episode ever and the second highest rated show on Sky One ever. Ricky plays Charles - husband to a dragon of a wife and father to a prodigious child - who takes part in a TV wife-swap. Read a review here Simpsons creator praises Ricky The Simpsons creator Matt Groening said Ricky did such a good job writing an episode of the hit US comedy show that he wants him to do more. read more here...

Read all about it. The Evening Standard review of The Invention of Lying is online. Read here. Daily Record Review Scotland's Daily Record considers The Invention of Lying. Read here. Esteemed Critic's Critique The revered Roger Ebert pronounces on The Invention of Lying. Read here. Just In Time. The venerable TIME magazine presents its opinion of Ricky's new movie. Read here. Guardian Review... The Guardian reviews The Invention of Lying. Read here. Invention of Lying - New Review Cinema Blend offer their appraisal of Ricky's new movie. Read here. Entertainment Weekly's Verdict EW.com review of The Invention of Lying is online now. Read here. The Mirror reflects on The Invention of Lying Their review is online now... Read here. BS in Boston The Boston Globe looks at The Invention of Lying... Read here. Ricky's Comedy Under The Microscope The Guardian takes an analytical view of Ricky's comedic standing. Read here. New York Magazine Review The Invention of Lying comes under the scrutiny of New York magazine's movie critic... Read here. Ricky Impresses at The Emmys The Telegraph reports that Ricky stole the show as he presented an Emmy at this year's awards in Los Angeles. Read here. Or see for yourself via YouTube Invention of Lying Review Round-up The Guardian has a summary of Ricky's new film's critical reception. Read here. The Invention of Lying - in review Here are the first reviews of The Invention of Lying. It's in cinemas from October 2nd. Boxoffice HitFix The Hollywood Reporter Variety Exclusive Invention of Lying Clips As publicity starts rolling for The Invention of Lying's opeing on October 2nd, film entertainment web sites HitFix and Total Film have exclusive clips on show. Adult Swim showing The Office US TV channel Adult Swim is to broadcast The Office - that's the original UK version. Ricky has filmed some special promos. Watch them here. US version of The Office gets syndicated It'll be going out nationally in the US 5 days a week starting from the very beginning. Read more about this 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. 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.. 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. 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. Future Brent Jonathan Ross has a new toy. Watch on YouTube. More about the Israeli Office The Telegraph has uncovered more details about the cast of the Israeli remkae of The Office. Read here. Rotten Tomatoes Catch Up With Ricky Ricky has news about his forthcoming movie, Man From The Pru, and shares his thoughts on possible future TV projects. Read the full story here. Plus Ricky receives his 'certified fresh' award and in this article he talks about a possible further Extras Special. Ricky on Classic FM Ricky has an in-depth chat on the DNA-List. Listen to the podcast at iTunes here. The Offices The McGill Tribune has an interesting article about the US and UK versions of The Office. Read it here. Ricky in Local Paper A North London reporter catches Ricky in his office. Read the article here. Ricky on Mayo Ricky talks about Ghost Town and and things... Listen here. Guardian Interview The Guardian goes 'beyond the cringe'. Read the interview here. Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People Buy tickets to Ricky and Dicky here, Ricky Gervais and Richard Dawkins that is, amongst others, at The Hammersmith Apollo on December 21st. Get there early as Ricky is on about 8.15 Merry Xmas. (there is no God) Find out more about Richard Dawkins on his official website. Sarah Palin Running for Office Sarah Palin has a Brent moment under questioning... Watch here. Observer's Observations on US/UK Comedy Here's an interesting article comparing UK and US comedy... Read it here. Steve Carell Interview Here is a nice interview with my US Office counterpart. Read it here.... Ricky - Live in L.A. - The Verdict The first reviews of Ricky's stand-up show at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood are online now. This from the OC Register and read the LA Times review here A nice thing about the American Office Read it here. More Foreign Office News Variety and the Hollywood Reporter talk about the forthcoming Russian version of The Office Ricky has done a little thing he wants you to see. Please help if you can Ricky rolls into New York New York's Daily News looks forward to Ricky's stand-up show at Madison Square Garden Read the article here Variety Enthuses about Extras Read the article here. Ricky Plays Liberty City Players of a new video game can take a break from the general mayhem to watch Ricky do some stand-up... Read more here. The 100 most powerful people in British culture Ricky is the only comedian to make the top 100 most influential people in British culture in the Sunday Telegraph's exclusive survey. Here's the survey. Prime Directive Ricky starts directing his first Hollywood movie this week. Here's a little article from Suite101.com. Universal Imports News from Variety confirms that Universal Pictures have picked up distribution rights to Ricky's new film This Side of the Truth outside of the US. Read the article here. +++++ News Release +++++ Office Relocation Spinoff of "The Office" highlights new NBC shows NBC will launch a spinoff of its popular workplace comedy "The Office" following the broadcast of the National Football League's Super Bowl championship next February, the network said on Wednesday. Created by Ricky Gervais, The Office is currently one of Americas biggest shows. Gervais said, "I'm very excited to see if we can make lightening strike twice. The Office is the first big successful remake for about thirty years. Every week I hear of 'so and so to be remade for America'- and that's the last you hear of it. I'm not sure why ours worked and worked so well. Maybe we where lucky or maybe it's because we are still involved." Flanimals Tops Publisher Chart Million selling Flanimals top publishers chart. In fact it tops it, goes through the middle and out the other end. See for yourself here. World Domination Continues - Extras Arrives in Canada The Office in its original format is shown in over ninety countries and has six remakes currently in production. Now it's the turn of Extras... Series 1 and 2 of Extras will air in Canada starting on Tuesday 22 Jan at 11pm on the Comedy Network Read morehere Ricky Breaks Another Record The Office has entered the record books as the most successful British Comedy of all time. With Emmys, Golden Globes, Baftas and every other award going, overseas sales have beaten even Fawlty Towers and The Office is shown in nearly ninety countries in its original format. Add to this such remakes as the US, Canadian, and French versions of the show and the global DVD sales (over 3 million copies) and you have a global phenomenon. ITV's Greatest Living Britons Ricky's picked up an award in the TV category of the ITV awards ceremony, joining an impressive list of winners including The Queen, who took the top award Read about it here.

Night at The Office The Guardian has a post-match analysis of The Office Night Read it here. The Invention of Lying - Review. "Imagine going to greet your blind date at their apartment and being told immediately upon the door opening how disappointing they find you..." Read on here... The Office in retrospect. Sunday's 'A Night at The Office' sparks press reflection on Ricky's opus. Read here in The Guardian. and Here in The Telegraph. Tickets are on sale now for Ricky's show at Carnegie Hall on November 5 - part of this year's New York Comedy Festival. America welcomes Office retrospective Read what the online press think about the forthcoming Night at the Office. New York Post Entertainment Weekly Broadcast Ricky and Steve report from the set of Cemetery Junction Emmy Nominations for HBO Stand Up Special Ricky's recent stand-up show at Madison Square Garden in New York, filmed for an HBO TV Special, has received nominations in three Emmy categories for this year's awards. Ricky Gets Off His Arse. Virtually. Ricky lends his support to a campaign to reform animal testing legislation through the medium of a digital march. Read more here and join in the campaign 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. 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. 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. 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. Little article about Ricky and Elmo Here's a considered piece of blogging about Ricky and Elmo. Read here. 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. 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. 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. 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 The Arts in The Times The Times Online has a preview of The Ricky Gervais Guide To The Arts. Read more here Another idiot pretending to be me. This time on "Twitter". I have no twitter page, facebook, myspace or any other outlet except rickygervais.com. 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. Ricky expands on possible Extras return Ricky has revealed that he has a "rough storyline" for another one-hour Extras special. Read on here Ghost Town on Blu-Ray The hi-def video release of Ghost Town is explored here. Quick Stop Entertainment Interview An extensive Q&A session session. Read it here. Rotten Tomatoes Interview Ricky spent an hour with the people from Rotten Tomatoes - the results of which are being converted to web pages and posted on a daily basis Here's Part 5 with links to previous posts . America wants Ricky to save comedy Variety wonders whether US comedy could be revitalised by taking a leaf out of Ricky's book. Here's the article. Watch Ricky on Conan Here's Ricky's recent appearance on the Conan O'Brien show in New York via YouTube. Part 1 here and Part 2 here. New News Stories Here's an article on how casting might go on the putative Extras Special. And here's a piece from Chortle that talks about UK comedy transfers to the US. LA ponders another Gervais Emmy Ricky's performance in the Extras Christmas Special is under consideration for an Emmy. The L.A. Times considers the consideration... Read the article here. And see the actual clip here Facts and FIgures The Ricky Gervais Podcast is downloaded an average of 4.54 million times a month. That's about 55 million downloads a year and over a million per week- nearly 4 times the amount that broke the world record three years ago. Myspace, Facebook etc. I have no myspace or facebook page. I have never had a myspace or facebook page. They are all bogus and will soon disappear. Sorry to anyone who thinks they were signed up to me or an official outlet. This website is the only official outlet. Cheers Ricky's US stand-up show on HBO Apparently Ricky is part of HBO's "Dream Team" - according to the Kansas City Star... Read the article here. Ricky in LA The Los Angeles Times heralds Ricky's recent stand-up shows... Read the article here. Ghost Town International release dates confirmed The UK release date for Ghost Town is confirmed as October 24th while America gets if first on September 19th. More about Ghost Town here together with release dates for other countries. Ricky's Movie Helps America A bit... Read about it here. New Video Podcast Camcorder footage from Ricky's weekend jaunt in a private jet with This Side of the Truth co-star Louis C.K. See the video here or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here. RG talks GTA on MTV Ricky popped up on MTV recently, mentioning his virtual appearance in the new Grand Theft Auto video game See the clip here. Wall Street Clash As the US Office ends its current run, the Wall Street Journal puts both UK and US versions under the microscope. Read the artice here. US TV in review Extras and The Office make best American shows of the season list Read about it here. Ricky, Steve and Karl back on air Ricky, Steve and Karl are to do a final show as part of the NME radio launch. Details here. A record eightth BAFTA for Ricky Ricky has entered the record books again by becoming the first person to win 8 Baftas. Last night at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles Extras was awarded an LA Batfa for comedy for the Daniel Radcliffe episode. Ricky tops comedy list Time Out has published its readers' top ten list of stand up comedians in which Ricky takes the top spot... Read the full list here Ricky up for third Banff award Extras battles it out for the top comedy gong at this year's prestigious Banff awards. The winners will be announced on June 9th in Alberta Canada. Time Out Comedy Vote Vote for your favourite comedian. It's pointless but it kills a few minutes. Vote here. Ricky responds to Grob-fearing reviewer A recent 1-star 'Flanimals' review has prompted Ricky to reply briefly... here Ricky Receives Greatest Accolade Of His Carreer The celebrated New York resatuarant, 21, has bestowed on Ricky a table of his own. Find out which one here. Other people given the same honour are Humphry Bogart, Richard Nixon, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Donald Trump, The Marx Brothers, Frank Sinatra, The Kennedy Family, Bill Clinton, Pavarotti and John Steinbeck. BAFTA No. 7 Both Ricky and Stephen Merchant were in the running for this year's comedy performance BAFTA. In the end Ricky won his seventh BAFTA, accepting via a satellite link up from New York. List of winners here.