Transcript: Interview: Ricky Gervais discusses his show "The Office," adapting the show for American television, and being nominated for two Golden Globe Awards

Article: 'I don't play the Hollywood GAME' Ricky Gervais has come a ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... since Hugh Grant, but Ricky Gervais isn't about to let that go ... Extras has lost some of that David Brent paunch of late through hitting ... American suburbanite. With Gervais, however, what you see is ... hire," says 48-year-old Gervais. "I've done the odd bits ...

Article: Fact. There is life after The Office He could have been typecast ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Ricky Gervais may already have a couple ... published the day we meet - David Brent, the unforgettable middle ... monkey on the toilet." Gervais then riffs gleefully on the ... piquant because an image of Gervais as the Latin American revolutionary ...

Article: Control is something that is never far from the surface when ...
Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  September 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Gervais creates his own universe After The Office and Extras, Ricky Gervais has devised another ingenious ... surface when dealing with Ricky Gervais. The creator and star of The Office, Extras, David Brent and "the dance" has plenty ...

Article: PROFILE: RICKY GERVAIS: A lucky man lurks behind ...
The Independent - London;  December 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... notoriously, no accounting. Ricky Gervais, however, is to everybody ... the British Comedy Awards. Gervais himself walked off with the ... portrayal of the vile and pathetic David Brent, manager of the Slough branch ... the same, it is clear that Gervais has struck a chord: people ...

Article: Funny business The brilliant and excruciatingly embarrassing ...
The Independent - London;  September 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... face, and hides herself. Gervais shrugs, as if this sort of ... t. For a comedian Ricky Gervais has an extraordinary lack of ... Suede," as his character David Brent might say, though their ... hysterical chat show Meet Ricky Gervais. None of which hinted that ...

Article: Dressing as a woman, working in a tent and endless jokes - how ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... familiar. But most familiar of all is Ricky Gervais's monstrous alter-ego, David Brent, the loud, egocentric and excruciatingly embarrassing ... could only really have been modelled on one man - Gervais himself. I was already working at the University ...

Article: First night: Tacky David Brent still makes us ...
The Independent on Sunday;  December 28, 2003 ;     637 words ... ... workplace could survive under a David Brent/Gareth Keenan style leadership ... Mackenzie Crook) and David (Ricky Gervais) seem to have found it harder ... list celebrity circuit. Gervais has a weekend radio show with ... Brent signalled an end also to Gervais's massive talent. The series ...