The name Razzle gains a fair bit of mainstream attention, having been mentioned on numerous British comedy programmes, including Meet Ricky Gervais, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, and in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous where it is implied that Patsy once posed for the magazine ( albeit in the early 1970s ).

Capital Radio set about increasing Xfm's listening figures, recruiting famous DJs such as Zoë Ball, former BBC Radio 1 presenter Kevin Greening, and re-recruiting comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant who took voluntary redundancy when Capital Radio bought the station, after the pair rose to fame with the first airing of The Office.

The station has previously employed a number of DJs that have since gone on to even greater fame including Ricky Gervais, Karl Pilkington, Stephen Merchant, Simon Pegg, Christian O ' Connell, Russell Brand, Justin Lee Collins, Adam and Joe, Alex Zane and Dermot O ' Leary

Rebecca De Mornay has also been referenced in an episode of The Ricky Gervais Show co-starring with " Clive Warren " ( Clive Owen ) as part of a movie pitch by Karl Pilkington.

The Oxford University Dramatic Society found it necessary to edit it when staging it in February 1906, with Gervais Rentoul as Angelo and Maud Hoffman as Isabella, and the same text was used when Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton staged it at the Adelphi Theatre in the following month.

A loose clique of stars, including Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Jessica Stevenson, Mark Heap, Ricky Gervais, Tamsin Greig and Bill Bailey have revolved around these series, with the most obvious acknowledgement of this coming in the scene in the film Shaun of the Dead when the two groups of survivors troop past each other, with cameos galore.

This magnificent mountain and its summit is actually shared between the neighbouring French commune of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and that of Courmayeur in Italy, and conseqently the title of highest commune in France sits with the less well known but equally historic neighbour of St Gervais.

The date above conflicts a little with the account we have by an eminent inhabitant of Arles, Gervais de Tibury, who was passing through Beaucaire in 1214.

He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show.

Gervais, along with siblings Larry ( born 1945 ), Marsha ( born 1948 ) and Bob ( born 1950 ), was born and brought up in Whitley, Berkshire.

During Xfm London's The Ricky Gervais Show and in further newspaper interviews with The Independent, Gervais noted that he believes his birth was unplanned due to the age difference between his oldest sibling and himself.

During one interview with The Independent, Gervais tells the author that even his mother admitted his birth was unplanned.

Gervais has stated that his upbringing and childhood were stable and trauma-free, with a high level of honesty and openness between his family members.

Gervais then came to much wider national attention with an obnoxious, cutting persona featured in a topical slot that replaced Ali G's segments on the satirical Channel 4 comedy programme The 11 O ' Clock Show in early 1999, in which his character used as many expletives as was possible and produced an inordinate amount of politically incorrect statements.

" You can forgive Gervais a certain arrogance after the success of The Office, but ..." He remarks on the confused tone of the series, taking in the clash between the broad comedy of characters Barry ( Shaun Williamson ) and Darren ( Stephen Merchant ), and the apparent parody of this style with When The Whistle Blows, and " given their total indulgence of Gervais, the BBC is portrayed as interfering, its comedy department run by a rather crudely stereotyped gay couple ".

In an interview conducted by New Orleans reporter Rosemary James with Pershing Gervais, James said Gervais admitted to concocting the charges.

" The songstress was also gearing up for the launch of a brand new single " Love Is the Answer ", with Cedric Gervais.

Being able to host large and intimate shows the LG Arena Birmingham does offer a wide range of comedians that are nationally and internationally known with acts such as Michael Mcintyre, Milton Jones, Ricky Gervais, Al Murray and Peter Kay bringing their shows to the Arena.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld visited City Island Diner on the island with Ricky Gervais in one of the webisodes of his Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

During his last years, Couperin lived in the organist's lodgings at St. Gervais with his two brothers, and died on 29 August 1661, aged thirty-five according to Le Parnasse François.

A smaller church Saint Gervais houses a treasury, best known for the purported skull of Saint Aubert complete with hole where the archangel Michael's finger pierced it ( probably a prehistoric trepanned skull ).

* " Free Love Freeway ", written and sung by Ricky Gervais, who starred as David Brent in the British television comedy series The Office

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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's second series of Extras featured a reference to a fictional episode of The South Bank Show focused on madcap children's television presenters Dick and Dom.

In 2006 Gervais and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge.

David Brent ( within the series, born 1962 or 1963 ) is a character in the BBC television mockumentary The Office, as well as a recurring character in the NBC series of the same name, portrayed by co-writer and co-director Ricky Gervais.

In September 2010, Merchant produced a television show alongside Ricky Gervais, and starring Karl Pilkington, called An Idiot Abroad.

Pilkington also co-founded RiSK, a television production company with his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

In September 2010, Pilkington featured in a television series produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant called An Idiot Abroad on Sky1.

In February 2007, Harris refused to appear on the second series of Ricky Gervais ' television series Extras.

Dempsey's favourite television shows include The Panel, Love is the Drug and Prime Time Investigates ; he also loves Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's shows and watches Curb Your Enthusiasm on TG4.

Jonathan Ross ( television presenter ) | Jonathan Ross and Ricky Gervais with the Live 8 concert in the background

Each episode has at least one guest star ; a television or film celebrity, who play what Gervais and Merchant have referred to as " twisted " versions of themselves ; an exaggerated or inverted parody of their famous public personas.

Jensen starred alongside Ricky Gervais in the BBC Two / HBO television programme Extras as the socially inept Maggie Jacobs.

After the first series of The Office, Gervais and Merchant returned to Xfm in November 2001 for a Saturday radio show.

She also stood in for Ricky Gervais while he filmed the second series of The Office.

Amongst the many other artists who have performed at the theatre are ; UCL alumnus Ricky Gervais has performed two of his standup shows in the theatre, where they were also filmed for release on DVD and was the venue for Crusader Norman Housley come-back lecture series: Contesting the Crusades, which he developed into a popular history book.

The Kill Keith movie was released in November 2011 and Chegwin also makes an appearance in the new Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant comedy series Life's Too Short, alongside Shaun Williamson and Les Dennis.

* The Office, comedy TV series starring Ricky Gervais

Novak recalls Gervais and Merchant saying that they deliberately altered Brent to become more of a " buffoon " in the second series, and thus more likeable.

Lindsay appeared in the 8th Ricky Gervais Video Podcast in which Gervais announced that Lindsay would be in the second series of Extras.

She has worked with actor / comedian Ricky Gervais, appearing in Gervais's stand up show Animals and playing Jennifer Taylor-Clarke in both series of The Office.

Green also appeared on Channel 4's Meet Ricky Gervais, which ran for one series in 2000.

She has also appeared as a guest on The Frank Skinner Show, and in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy series Extras.

In mid-2001, BBC Two aired the first series of The Office, co-written and co-directed by Merchant and Gervais and starring the latter as paper sales office manager David Brent ; the show initially received low ratings.

The series features Merchant in a supporting role as Darren Lamb, the incompetent agent to struggling actor Andy Millman, played by Gervais.

Actor Jon Hamm, appearing as his character Don Draper from the AMC series Mad Men, and talk show host Larry King, of CNN's Larry King Live, made cameo appearances in the show's cold open, with actor and comedian Ricky Gervais sending Conan a pre-taped message expressing his well wishes on the new series, then going on to express condolences for future job losses.