Ricky Gervais Wikipedia. Ricky Gervais. Gervais in October 2. Birth name. Ricky Dene Gervais. Born1. 96. 1 0. June 1. Reading, Berkshire, England. Medium. Stand up, television, film, books, radio, music. Alma mater. University College London. Years active. 19. Genres. Black comedy,1cringe comedy,1observational comedy,2satire,3insult comedy,4musical comedy. PartnersJane Fallon1. Websiterickygervais. Ricky Dene Gervais8 born 2. June 1. 96. 19 is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and musician. Gervais worked initially in the music industry, attempting a career as a pop star in the 1. Seona Dancing and working as the manager of the then unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. Gervais appeared on The 1. OClock Show on Channel 4 between 1. In 2. 00. 0, he was given a Channel 4 talk show, Meet Ricky Gervais, and then achieved greater mainstream fame a year later with his BBC television series The Office. It was followed by Extras in 2. He co wrote and co directed both series with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, he played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Ricky Gervais Show Season 3' title='Ricky Gervais Show Season 3' />On 5 December 2005, Guardian Unlimited began offering free weekly podcasts The Ricky Gervais Show featuring Gervais, Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. Throughout. Live Feed, a Hollywood entertainment news blog, covers breaking television show news and provides TV Nielsen ratings analysis. The best podcast episodes of all time Cmon. How can you listen to 10 years worth of podcasts Is something a podcast if it first aired on terrestria. He reprised his role as Brent in the comedy film Life on the Road. He has also starred in the Hollywood films Ghost Town, and Muppets Most Wanted, and wrote, directed and starred in The Invention of Lying and the Netflix released Special Correspondents. He has performed on four stand up comedy tours and written the Flanimals book series. Gervais also starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the podcast. The Ricky Gervais Show, which has spawned various spin offs starring Pilkington and produced by Gervais and Merchant. He hosted the Golden Globe Awards in 2. Gervais has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, one Golden Globe Award and the 2. Photoshop Cs6 Portable Mac. Rose dOr, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In a 2. 00. 4 poll for the BBC, he was named the third most influential person in British culture. In 2. 00. 7 he was voted the 1. Channel 4s 1. 00 Greatest Stand Ups1. In 2. 01. 0 he was named on the Time 1. Early lifeeditGervais was born at Battle Hospital in Reading. Speed Manual Transmissions here. He was raised in Whitley, along with brother Larry born 1. Marsha born 1. 94. Robert born 1. 95. His father, Lawrence Raymond Jerry Gervais 1. Franco Ontarian from Pain Court, Ontario, emigrated while on foreign duty during the Second World War and worked as a labourer and hod carrier. He met Gervaiss mother, Eva Sophia ne House 1. English, during a blackout they settled in Whitley. She died, aged 7. He attended Whitley Park Infants and Junior Schools, and received his secondary education at Ashmead Comprehensive School after a spell as a gardener at the University of Reading, he moved on to University College London in 1. He intended to study biology but changed to philosophy after two weeks, and earned an upper second class honours degree in the subject. During his time at UCL, he met Jane Fallon, with whom he has been in a relationship since 1. He is the former boss of Coldplay drummer Will Champion. In 1. 98. 3, during his final year as a student at UCL University College London, Gervais and college friend Bill Macrae formed the new wave pop duo, Seona Dancing. They were signed by London Records, which released two of their singlesMore to Lose and Bitter Heart. The songs failed to chart inside the UK top 7. Despite not being successful in the UK, Seona Dancing did manage to score a hit in the Philippines with More to Lose. He also worked as the manager for Suede before they became successful in the 1. In 2. 01. 3, Gervais performed a live tour as David Brent along with a band under the name Foregone Conclusion. Gervais and the band performed songs written under the Brent character including songs such as Equality Street and Free Love Freeway. Gervais also produced a series of You. Tube videos under the title Learn Guitar with David Brent, featuring acoustic guitar versions of nine songs. In 2. 01. 6, as part of the Life on Road film promotion, Gervais published the David Brent Songbook 2. These were also recorded for the album Life on the road, under the name of David Brent and Foregone Conclusion. Gervais later worked as an assistant events manager for the University of London Union ULU, then moved from ULU to a job as head of speech at the alternative radio station Xfm. Needing an assistant, Gervais interviewed the first person whose curriculum vitae he saw. It belonged to Stephen Merchant. In 1. 99. 8 Gervais was made redundant when the station was taken over by the Capital Radio group. Around this time he was also a regular contributor to Mary Anne Hobbs Radio 1 show, performing vox pop interviews in unlikely locations. After the first series of The Office, Gervais and Merchant returned to Xfm in November 2. Saturday radio show. This was when the pair first worked with Karl Pilkington, who produced the shows and later collaborated with them on their series of podcasts. In October 2. 01. Gervais began hosting the weekly radio show Ricky Gervais Is Deadly Sirius on Sirius XM. PodcasteditOn 5 December 2. Guardian Unlimited began offering free weekly podcasts The Ricky Gervais Show featuring Gervais, Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. Throughout January and February 2. Guinness World Record for the worlds most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 2. Two more serieseach with six podcastswere released between February and September 2. In late 2. 00. 6, three more free podcasts were released. Together called The Podfather Trilogy, they debuted individually at Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. These three were known by Ricky and Steve as The Fourth Season. In October 2. 00. Tunes this podcast was originally given out for free during a performance of Gervais Fame tour in London. On 2. 5 November 2. Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington released another free full length podcast, which lasted just over an hour. In August 2. 00. 8, Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington recorded their fifth season of audiobooks, totalling 4 chapters, which were released on 1. September 2. 00. 8. These audiobooks were described as the guide to. As of May 2. 01. 1, there are 1. Guides in total Medicine, Natural History, Arts, Philosophy, The English, Society, Law Order, The Future, The Human Body, The Earth, The World Cup 2. Comic Relief. 3. 8 The conversations typically begin on topic, but constantly stray away from the topic at hand. TelevisioneditEarly television appearanceseditGervais has contributed to the BAFTA winning The Sketch Show ITV, penning several sketches. His mainstream TV debut came in September 1. Channel 4s Comedy Lab series of pilots. His one off show Golden Years focused on a David Bowieobsessed character called Clive Meadows. Gervais then came to much wider national attention with an obnoxious, cutting persona featured in a topical slot that replaced Ali Gs segments on the satirical Channel 4 comedy programme The 1. OClock Show in early 1. Among the other regular featured comedians on the show was Mackenzie Crook, later a co star of The Office. Two years later, Gervais went on to present his own comedy chat show for Channel 4 called Meet Ricky Gervais it was poorly received and has since been mocked by Gervais himself.