Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. David Brent Ricky Gervais is headed stateside. The button-pushing comic kicks off the North American leg of his ongoing ‘Mortality Tour’ on … Read more
Hollywood is lucky that Ricky Gervais isn’t hosting the 2025 Golden Globes. The 63-year-old comedian hosted the award ceremony five times before, but this year Nikki Glaser is emceeing Sunday’s show. However, Gervais took to X (formerly on Twitter) on Friday to reveal the jokes he would’ve told if he was the host. Ricky Gervais … Read more
A former writer on the US version of “The Office” says a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the workplace sitcom left him “a bit rankled.” Mike Schur, who wrote on “SNL” before he left the late night show to work on “The Office,” shared his thoughts about a sketch called “The Japanese Office” during an … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Mortality is typically not a very funny topic. Still, that won’t stop Ricky Gervais from exploring the touchy subject on his ‘Mortality … Read more
“Extremely sad news. The very funny and very lovely Ewen Macintosh, known to many as ‘Big Keith’ from The Office, has passed away. An absolute original. RIP,” Gervais posted on X early Wednesday morning. Source link #Office #actor #Ewen #MacIntosh #played #Big #Keith #dead
Ricky Gervais was once a thriving pop star before he made his career in comedy. The British comedian, 62, actually moonlighted as a singer in the 1980s, forming a band called Seona Dancing. The “Office” star created the pop duo with friend Bill Macrae during their senior year at University College London in 1983. The … Read more
Lincoln Townley has gone from a seedy life of drugs and strippers to doing portraits of Jody Foster and schmoozing with Michael Caine. Celebrity paintings by Townley – besides Foster and Caine, he’s captured the likes of Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Lady Gaga, Matt Damon and others – sell for hundreds of thousands … Read more
A defiant Ricky Gervais said his jokes about sick and dying children will remain in his Dec. 25 Netflix special, “Armageddon” — despite fan outrage and an online petition over his offensive and “ableist language.” “In the actual skit, I say, ‘I’ve been doing a lot of video messages recently for terminally ill children. Only … Read more
They wish he would just go away. Ricky Gervais, 62, is under fire for labeling terminally ill children “baldies” and calling them “retarded” in his upcoming Netflix stand-up special “Armageddon.” In a clip Gervais posted to his social media pages last week, he jokes about making videos for sick children via the Make-A-Wish Foundation. “I’ve … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Get ready for buttons to be pushed, lines to be crossed and laughs to be had. Outspoken creator and star of the British “The Office” Ricky Gervais is … Read more
In her poem “Solitude,” Scorpio Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote the famous lines, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.” For our part, we’ll keep company with the comics and find our cures in the form of riotous laughter. Interested in discovering the funniest zodiac sign, Psychicworld.com, took a peek at … Read more
Welcome back to Dunder Mifflin…with a twist. An Australian version of “The Office” is in production, but this time, instead of being led by Michael Scott, a female boss Hannah Howard (played by Felicity Ward) will be in charge. The American version of the hit show, which aired from 2005-2013, was a mockumentary about the quirky … Read more
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe at the Golden Globes in a new interview with Rolling Stone — and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hit back. Kimmel, 55, was asked about the “no-holds-barred roast” approach to hosting award shows — popularized by Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes — and if it’s “representative of … Read more
The 2023 Golden Globe Awards are filled with dramas — and I’m not talking about “The Fabelmans” and “Tár.” This time it’s real-life celebs who are causing a stir. After the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the loony international journalism group that puts on the show) was eviscerated in 2021 when it was revealed it didn’t … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. In a year where inflation rose, crypto crashed and even Tom Brady got dumped, it’s pretty obvious we all could use a good laugh. Thankfully, many of the … Read more