Archive: Ricky Gervais

‘Office Babies’ spin-off

Friday, February 19th, 2010 | 10 comments

The Office’s Ricky Gervais talks to Vanity Fair about his concept for a spin-off tentatively called ‘Office Babies’:

I’m filming it now … What we did is, we pretended to do a promotional thing where parents can come and meet famous people from The Office. So they leave their babies with us, and while they’re distracted getting autographs, we shoot the entire series. It’s just babies crawling over copiers and stuff, and then we overdub the footage. There are no actor fees. At least not until the second season, when it becomes a hit. Then they’ll be asking for a pay raise, you can be sure. But that’s when we’ll write them out.

Link: Ricky Gervais Reveals All About Office Babies Spin-Off: “It’s Definitely Happening”

Ricky Gervais and Steve Carell, Golden Globes 2010

Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | Add a comment

Here is Ricky Gervais, host of the Golden Globes Awards 2010, ribbing The Office’s Steve Carell.

Ricky Gervais coming to The Office?

Friday, January 15th, 2010 | 14 comments

Could The Office’s creator and original star Ricky Gervais possibly make an appearance on the U.S. version of the show sometime soon?

Here are some various tidbits:

From The Sun:

BUNGLING boss David Brent is to return, Ricky Gervais has confirmed.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Ricky said his Brent will clash egos with his US equivalent in the American version of hit BBC comedy The Office.

Revealing his plans for the episode, Ricky, 48, said: “I think it would be funny for David Brent to walk into the US Office and hear them go, ‘Oh my god, there’s two of them!’

“We don’t need to know about Brent’s back story – the English Office exists in a cocoon and in the DVD.

“Michael Scott could just bump into Brent, who is a bloke from England.

“I don’t think we’ll take any of the other UK characters over – we’ll probably leave it with just me because it’s just too complicated.”

From Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello:

I heard an unconfirmed rumor earlier today that Ricky Gervais was seriously considering reprising his role as original Office manager David Brent on the U.S. version later this season. Too good to be true, right? That’s what I thought. Well, about an hour ago, Ricky Gervais took the stage at press tour (he’s here promoting his new self-titled animated HBO comedy) and hinted that he might do something with the U.S. Office next season.

From the L.A. Times:

As for future plans, Gervais offered: “We might do something with the American ‘Office’ next season. But that’s in our heads at the moment.”

From USA Today:

Gervais, who wrote an episode of the American Office with Merchant, would like to write and direct another one. He doesn’t rule out an appearance on the show, either as the British Office’s David Brent or Extras’ Andy Millman.

“I think that’s not out of the question now. I think the time would be right there,” he says.

He has thought of one scenario in which The Office’s Jim and Pam are watching Extras and Michael Scott — the American version of Gervais’ Brent — comes along. “And (he) goes: ‘I don’t like that English guy in it. If they ever did an American remake, I reckon I could do that.’ That would be a lovely in-joke.”

What do you think of the idea? What could some possible storylines be?

Ricky Gervais on ‘The Tonight Show’

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | 16 comments

Here is Ricky Gervais’ visit to ‘The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’ last night (four clips):

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Ricky Gervais talks about Golden Globes hosting gig

Monday, December 14th, 2009 | 5 comments

Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the original version of ‘The Office’ and executive producer of the U.S. version, will host the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 17th.

(The nominations will be announced early tomorrow morning by Justin Timberlake, Diane Kruger, and The Office’s John Krasinski.)

Ricky fielded questions from the press last week; here’s a hilarious condensed version of the transcript, courtesy of NBC.

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Ricky Gervais on ’60 Minutes’

Sunday, December 13th, 2009 | 4 comments

‘The Office’ creator and executive producer Ricky Gervais appeared on ’60 Minutes’ tonight:

Other CBS clips of Ricky: Elmo & Ricky | A Visit to 60 Minutes | Ricky’s Office

David Brent photo used in failed bank fraud

Monday, November 30th, 2009 | 4 comments

From The Register:

Crooks tried to impersonate Ricky Gervais by using a picture of The Office character David Brent mounted in a counterfeit passport as part of a comically inept attempt to withdraw a large sum from the comedian’s bank account.

Link: Gervais pic used in amusingly failed bank fraud

Ricky Gervais to host Golden Globe Awards

Monday, October 26th, 2009 | 13 comments

The Office’s creator and executive producer Ricky Gervais will host the next Golden Globe awards show.

The British comedian will host the 67th Annual Golden Globes in January, PEOPLE has confirmed. “Not only is this the biggest Hollywood celebration of the industry, which includes both film and TV, but also an environment where I feel I can get free reign as a host,” Gervais said Monday. “I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don’t turn down.”

If this clip from last year’s Emmy Awards is any indication, Ricky should rock the GGs!

Link: Ricky Gervais to Host the Golden Globes

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