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Walk onstage with a beer in your hand at a televised industry gala. Joke with Kate Winslet in front of a room full of 2009 Golden Globe attendees about choosing a Holocaust drama as a road to certain awards show kudos...In the case of Ricky Gervais, absolutely....
Tags: Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais, Barry Adelman, Los Angeles, Surnames, The Office, Golden Globe Award, Adelman, Entertainment Culture
09am UK, Monday November 30, 2009 Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online Ricky Gervais was the target of a £200,000 scam by fraudsters who used the identity of his character David Brent. Ricky Gervais starred as David Brent in The Office. Picture: BBC The gang...
Tags: Ricky Gervais, David Brent, United Kingdom, London, The Office, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
From the trailers and the postering, The Invention of Lying looks like nothing much more or less than Ricky Gervais ( The Office ) moving in on Jim Carrey's territory with a Liar Liar or Yes Man slice of pseudo metaphysical fluff. And that's no doubt...
Tags: Ricky Gervais, Jim Carrey, New Zealand, Wellington, The Office, Jennifer Garner, Yes Man, Entertainment Culture, The Invention of Lying, Liar Liar
Saturday November 28, 2009 Rating: * * * * Verdict: An uneven effort, but better than your average romantic comedy. A great idea from Ricky Gervais, the award winning creator of The Office , and his co-writer and co-director Matthew Robinson, but unfortunately...
Tags: Ricky Gervais, romantic comedy, New Zealand, Auckland, The Office, Tina Fey, Comedic genres, Entertainment Culture, The Invention of Lying
What's a venerable awards ceremony to do when ratings are down, other newbie awards shows are nipping at its heels and the world in general is moving at a much faster pace than when it began?...NBC-TV and Dick Clark Prods. have decided to do things a...
Tags: award shows, HFPA, Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., Philip Berk, Golden Globes, party atmosphere, Los Angeles, Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Ricky Gervais, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
I find myself thinking, 'how did I get here?'", says Ashley Jensen, shaking her head in disbelief. "When I'm walking up the red carpet at the Golden Globes. Or they're announcing my name next to Dame Eileen Atkins in the Emmy nominations, I just think,...
Tags: Ashley Jensen, Ricky Gervais, Los Angeles, Botox, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Hollywood Hills, Ugly Betty, albums, Jim Zwerg, David Meece, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture, British television, Extras
Just because Stephen Hawking – a famously disabled spastic – created black holes while sitting in his wheelchair, it doesn't mean you will be able to." These were the opening lines in Campus, the improvised sitcom pilot by Green Wing creator Victoria...
Tags: Ash Atalla, casting offs, David Brent, comedies showcase, Larry David, having sex, wheelchair user, disability actors, New Zealand, Auckland, The Office, Wheelchair, Ableism, Stephen Hawking, Disability, Ricky Gervais, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues
Jumping on the animation bandwagon, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. said Tuesday that there will be five feature animated film nominees at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, rather than the three it has had each year since the category was launched...
Tags: HFPA, animation features, Academy, annual golden, 67th annual, Golden Globes, ani category, expands ani, globe expands, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Ricky Gervais, Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Academy Award for Best Picture, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
If you saw Ricky Gervais' widely panned tour this year you will have watched, as part of the show's opening sequence, the burly ginger American comic Louis CK deliver a recorded plea for certain bodily fluids to keep Gervais alive. While the skit was...
Tags: Ricky Gervais, United Kingdom, London, Entertainment Culture, The Office, Louis C.K.
Interviewing Ricky Gervais feels more like my own private stand-up show than just an opportunity to quiz The Office star about his latest Hollywood outing. I've barely walked into his Soho hotel room and he's cracking jokes about the fruit on the table...
Tags: Ricky Gervais, Los Angeles, Ghost Town, David Koepp, The Office, The Invention of Lying, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest