Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervaisis an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and former pop singer and manager...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth25 June 1961
CityWhitley, England
gave honor network offer
It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
anybody bothered free radio
I want to do a radio show where I can say what I want, when I want and that's free for anybody who can be bothered to listen.
actively
It's the one thing I actively don't like: just being recognized.
boss somewhere stuck themes trying
As long as they keep the important themes -- a job, work, a boss going through a mid-life crisis, trying to make a difference, being stuck somewhere you do not necessarily want to be.
broad comedies exactly favorite focus groups guest laughter onto people stick time tracks vision watching
That's exactly what it did on BBC2. The people that get onto focus groups are force-fed big, broad comedies with laughter tracks and guest appearances. They're not going to like 'The Office' the first time they see it because they're not going to know what they're watching exactly. But if you stick to your vision and auteur it the way you think it should be done, there are enough people in the world that are like-minded and they're going to find it and it's going to be their favorite show.
enjoy people recognized understand
Because it was couched in realism, I think people recognized things. The more you understand something, I think the more you can enjoy it.
bad material
You can get away with bad material if you've got charisma.
boss decent identified job loved needs people picked
We picked on something people identified with -- a decent job at work, a relationship, a boss who needs to be loved and who is going through a mid-life crisis,
reading people half
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
naughty jail boss
If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.
cynical behinds
You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.
hit ideas list mad months people sam scripts send sent spend spent spoke three time wrote yes
We had a hit list of people we approached, ... We told them some of the ideas we had. Because we spent such a long time writing the scripts for each episode, it would be mad to spend three months on a script for Sam Jackson, send it to him, and he goes, 'Why would I do that?' So we got a preliminary yes out of them, and then went way, wrote the ideas, spoke to them on the phone, sent them the script, and they all said yes.
faithful quite scripts seen
We have seen some of the scripts and it is quite faithful (to the original),
english-writer
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.