London: A Ricky Gervais fan gave up a suicide bid after watching the funnyman's TV show 'The Office'. Jody Parrish had written a note and was moments away from taking his own life last week when he accidentally stepped on a remote control and began playing a DVD of the sitcom, reported Sun online. The 32-year-old, who recently split from his partner of six years, reveals he spent hours giggling...
02:49 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Los Angeles: Comedy duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host next year's Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills, bringing perhaps a gentler touch to a ceremony helmed for the past three years by acerbic Briton Ricky Gervais. Organizers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and NBC said on Monday that Fey and Poehler would bring their tried and tested chemistry to the January 13, 2013 gala dinner for Hollywood's...
01:31 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Los Angeles: Jerry Seinfeld hits the road again with a new Web series called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee featuring the stand-up comedian and TV star driving around and joking with famous friends, including Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin, Michael Richards, Colin Quinn, Bob Einstein and Larry David. The show, at www.comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com, debuts on July 19 and is billed online as a 'one-minute test drive' with Seinfeld behind the wheel of...
05:52 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Los Angeles: Ricky Gervais said on Friday he has already come up with jokes against 'specific targets' for his weekend Golden Globes Award hosting gig -- and that he will stand by every gag. But the comedian said he had felt no enmity with any of the A-list Hollywood stars who will be attending Sunday's televised awards dinner and ceremony, and knew no-one who was upset by his acerbic comments...
12:27 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Los Angeles: Host Ricky Gervais may have turned off the audience members and critics at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, but viewers seemed turned on, watching the show in larger numbers than one year ago. The Golden Globes, an annual film and TV awards show in Hollywood, drew just under 17 million total viewers to network NBC, which was up slightly from 2010 when British comedian Gervais, who is known...
11:09 AM, Jan 18, 2011
