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...If the Golden Globes’ repeated hiring of Ricky Gervais suggested a past appetite for caustic, edgy humour — the comic became famed for his merciless roasting of the A-listers in attendance — this year’s...
...I think another point is, you know, some of the humorous portrayals of the archetypal managers are along the lines of the Ricky Gervais in the office, right?...
...Apparently, edgier comics such as Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr (I mean, who the hell were they asking?) have far more influence. Not that Kay gives a monkey’s: he’s too busy reaping the profits....
...Ricky Gervais’ May Netflix special, SuperNature, hinges on jokes about trans people where their genitals are the punchline....
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...Here’s Ricky Gervais from his most recent Netflix special, Super Nature. Ricky GervaisThe worst thing you can say today that you cancel on Twitter, death threats . . ....
..., the target of cuts (big companies are forever boasting about plans to remove “layers of management”), or the butt of satire: think Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers or Ricky Gervais or Steve Carell as the...
...Ricky Gervais, a far subtler comedian, is also ostentatiously taking on the joke police with aggressively offensive routines....
...Netflix faced protests from employees (mainly in the US) about its decision to broadcast routines from comedians Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais, which critics said were transphobic....
...Gervais who have criticised the hunts....
...On the face of it, at the Golden Globes awards ceremony this week, the host Ricky Gervais did something rather different. He insulted the audience....
...It was looking up for bereaved Tony (Ricky Gervais) at the end of series one, as he went around performing small acts of restorative justice, but dramatically as well as realistically his new serenity couldn...
...In episode one, “Jobseeker”, Mandy has a tense meeting with her long-suffering benefits adviser (Tom Basden, who like Greenidge and Morgan appeared in the Ricky Gervais comedy After Life)....
...But office buildings in subprime locations (think of Ricky Gervais’ operation in the TV series The Office) might be converted into homes, just as derelict factories became lofts in the 1980s....
...Ricky Gervais has been open about how much direct inspiration he took from it for The Office, let alone for his own behind-the-scenes series, Extras....
...Could there be some mash-up with Skype or the Teams video conferencing service where workers produce Ricky Gervais-type Office dance videos?...
...It’s 20 years since The 11 O’Clock Show, which launched the careers of Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen, went off air....
...Ricky Gervais didn’t mince his words when he opened the 77th Golden Globes earlier this month: “No one cares about movies any more. No one goes to the cinema . . . Everyone’s watching Netflix . . ....
...Reliable purveyor of awfulness Ricky Gervais returns in a slightly softer guise in After Life (Netflix, from Friday)....
...In the 2000s it won fame as the setting for Ricky Gervais’ BBC sitcom The Office....
...At the recent Golden Globes, the belligerent Ricky Gervais pushed hard on this point; “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world,” he said....
...Showbiz moralising is not without its critics: at this year’s Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais told Hollywood’s finest that they were in “no position to lecture the public about anything”....
...Who played a fictionalised version of himself as the main character in the sitcom Life’s Too Short, written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant? What’s the biggest city in Alabama?...
...In fairness, Ricky Gervais, Marc Maron and the film-maker Kevin Smith were among the early adopters, but nowadays you can’t move for famous types hosting their own shows, among them Lena Dunham, Gwyneth...
...The mood of morbidity might have had something to do with the fact that I’d just watched After Life, on Netflix, in which Ricky Gervais plays a grieving widower who spends a good deal of the show beside...
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