Ricky Dene Gervais is a Global Icon, an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, and acted in the British television sitcoms The Office, Extras, and Life’s Too Short with Stephen Merchant. He also created, wrote and starred in Derek and After Life.
Ricky has become one of the most popular and omnipresent comedy performers of the 21st century, hosting the Golden Globe awards, lending his talent to films, becoming a voice artist and appearing on numerous talk shows. He has become one of the best known British comedy figures in America. He is also regularly the subject of controversy due to his dark comedy. Some critics have called him insensitive and outrageous. Gervais has responded by saying “offense is the collateral damage of free speech”, he has said that he doesn’t aim for a mass audience, he’s just pleased he’s managed to get one, and he has compared his style of comedy and the audience he has acquired with being Iggy Pop in preference to being Phil Collins
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