Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervaisis an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and former pop singer and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth25 June 1961
CityWhitley, England
blackboard amazing-things
That's the amazing thing about life. You can just rub it out, like a blackboard, and start again.
expressed horror karl nice past
Karl had expressed his horror in the past at the thought of a rectal examination, and I thought this 'fear' was a nice theme,
became fault les lonely perception played press whipping
But it's the press perception of him we played with, ... Les isn't a sad, lonely man. Through no fault of his own, he became a whipping boy.
amazing audience british countries face fat homes television
We make television for a British audience and it's still amazing to me that most countries in the world have my fat face beamed into homes once a week.
bad material
You can get away with bad material if you've got charisma.
ensemble icing
The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an ensemble piece.
applied born joke rather
He was born smart, and he can't let it go. He'd rather make a joke than listen. He's clever, but he hasn't applied it as well as some other people.
sit table
You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'
english-writer
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
backs hard red slapping
We were slapping each other's backs so hard we were red raw.
sale
Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?
hit ideas list mad months people sam scripts send sent spend spent spoke three time wrote yes
We had a hit list of people we approached, ... We told them some of the ideas we had. Because we spent such a long time writing the scripts for each episode, it would be mad to spend three months on a script for Sam Jackson, send it to him, and he goes, 'Why would I do that?' So we got a preliminary yes out of them, and then went way, wrote the ideas, spoke to them on the phone, sent them the script, and they all said yes.
andy bad idiot owes whereas
Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy has a different theme: The world owes him a living.
book books-and-reading english-writer join
Why by a book when you can join a library.