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Considered one of the most influential British comedians since Charlie Chaplin, (he received the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy 2016 BAFTA/LA) Ricky Gervais is the creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek, and the critically acclaimed Netflix hit After Life.

Following the global success of his two previous Netflix stand-up specials ‘Humanity’ and ‘Supernature’, 2023 saw Gervais release a third special and his biggest to date, ‘Armageddon’. It won a Golden Globe, was the global number 1 most-watched show on Netflix, and followed a record-breaking international tour, selling out 85 arena dates across the world. Gervais’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing comedy gig ever.

Gervais has won countless awards across his career and enjoyed huge critical success for the outstanding three series of After Life. His hit series The Office is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries, with 13 remakes.

Ricky has hosted the Golden Globes awards five times, in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

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Ricky gervais reveals first batch of tour dates for new show armageddon.

Ricky Gervais has announced the first official tour dates for his brand new show entitled Armageddon.

The outspoken comedian has been doing warm-up dates in London and the provinces in recent months. Fans who have seen the work in progress shows have been tweeting that this could be his most outrageous, controversial, taboo-busting show yet.

Gervais was previously on the receiving end of criticism for anti-woke jokes in his last show Supernature, but the show was still a massive hit on Netflix. 

Last week his Netflix comedy After Life won the Best Comedy Award at the National Television Awards.

The dates announced for November and December so far are in Oxford, Ipswich, Sheffield, Manchester, Cambridge and Cardiff.

There will also be two more warm-up shows at the Leicester Square Theatre on October 26 & 31.

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Ricky Gervais adds extra dates to 'Armageddon' 2022 UK tour: tickets on sale now

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• 21 October 2022

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The award-winning comic will perform extra nights in Oxford, Ipswich, Sheffield and Manchester this winter

British comedian Ricky Gervais has added extra performances to his 2022 Armageddon UK tour. Tickets are on sale now.

The After Life star recently announced a handful of dates for the trek, lining up performances in Oxford, Ipswich, Sheffield, Manchester, Cambridge and Cardiff for later this year.

Gervais will headline Oxford's New Theatre for an extra night on Thursday 3 November, the Regent Theatre in Ipswich on Wednesday 16 November, Sheffield's City Hall on Wednesday 23 November and the O2 Apollo in Manchester for two consecutive nights on Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 December. See a full list of tour dates and venues below.

The run of shows follows two previously-announced work in progress shows in Cambridge and Leicester Square Theatre in London later this month. The Armageddon Tour comes after the stand-up's SuperNature Tour which subsequently turned into a special for Netflix.

Ricky Gervais 2022 UK tour dates: Monday 24 October – Corn Exchange, Cambridge Wednesday 26 October – Leicester Square Theatre, London Monday 31 October – Leicester Square Theatre, London Wednesday 2 November – New Theatre, Oxford Thursday 3 November – New Theatre, Oxford ( NEW DATE ) Tuesday 15 November – Regent Theatre, Ipswich Wednesday 16 November – Regent Theatre, Ipswich ( NEW DATE ) Tuesday 22 November – City Hall, Sheffield Wednesday 23 November – City Hall, Sheffield ( NEW DATE ) Monday 28 November – O2 Apollo, Manchester Tuesday 6 December – O2 Apollo, Manchester ( NEW DATE ) Wednesday 7 December – O2 Apollo, Manchester ( NEW DATE ) Monday 12 December – Corn Exchange, Cambridge Thursday 15 December – International Arena, Cardiff

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Considered one of the most influential British comedians since Charlie Chaplin, (he received the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy 2016 BAFTA/LA) RICKY GERVAIS returned to the stage with_ SuperNature_ in 2021, following the global success of his recent Netflix stand-up special Humanity, which was…

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Ricky Gervais has added more UK dates to his upcoming UK tour , Armageddon, after the first five shows sold out.

Gervais will begin touring the UK next week, with shows set to continue throughout the summer, before eventually coming to London for four dates in September.

The comedian and actor has also added more dates to his European and North American tours, which will see him perform in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, Barcelona, Oslo, and Berlin, among others.

Gervais expressed his excitement about the tour on Twitter, saying: “I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. I went to the local comprehensive at the end of my road. Life was tough, I guess.

“And yet, all I can remember is having a  laugh. Anyway, in May, I’m playing The Hollywood F****** Bowl.”

How to get tickets to Ricky Gervais’ tour

Tickets for the new dates on the Ricky Gervais tour will go on sale on Friday, March 31, at 10am.

They will be available to buy from LiveNation.com and fans can set a reminder for when the tickets go live.

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April 4/5 – Newcastle O2 City Hall (sold out)

April 19 – St Albans Arena (sold out)

April 24/25 – Manchester O2 Apollo (sold out)

May 22 – Cambridge Corn Exchange

May 25 – Leeds First Direct Arena

May 30 – Manchester O2 Apollo

June 14 – Cardiff International Arena

June 21 – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

July 20 – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

September 4 – Birmingham Utilita Arena

September 13/14/15/16 – London Palladium

October 6 – London OVO Arena Wembley

December 11/12 – Bristol Beacon

Gervais also revealed that the Armageddon tour will be available to watch on Netflix in 2024, once he finishes touring the world in 2023. His previous specials, SuperNature and Humanity, are currently available to stream.

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Ricky Gervais’s brand new stand-up special is just around the corner on Netflix, and we’ve got our first look and the first trailer for the new special too. Here’s what you need to know about Ricky Gervais’s new Netflix special, SuperNature which is set to arrive at the end of May 2022.  

The new special is the second Gervais has produced exclusively for Netflix. His first, titled Humanity , was released in March 2018 (four years ago) and is largely considered to be one of his best stand-up performances to date . Humanity was the comedian’s first time back in front of an audience for 7 years.

The special was filmed last year as Gervais performed his SuperNature set at locations around Europe and in the UK such as the London Palladium, the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, and the SSE Arena at Wembley.

It’s been reported that SuperNature was the biggest comedy tour in 2021 grossing over $30 million in ticket sales.

SundayWorld described the new special as “brilliantly ridiculous” adding “Gervais touches on his uncomfortable medical examinations, how he is dealing with life now that he has toasted his 60th birthday and a series of topics most comedians would avoid for fear of being struck down by the apology police.”

Here’s how Netflix lists the new special:

“Ricky Gervais gives his take on the rules of comedy, spoiling his cats and how super actual nature is in his second Netflix stand-up special.”

A first look clip at the new special can be found on Netflix (or we’ve screen-capped and posted it on Twitter below) which gives you the first minute of the special according to The Guardian who notes that Ricky “starts his latest live show, SuperNature , with a lesson in irony.”

You can find an exclusive clip on Netflix right now! https://t.co/duC1Q3Ts6I pic.twitter.com/DkaDfODlyk — What's on Netflix (@whatonnetflix) April 27, 2022

Ricky Gervais: Supernature is due to release on Netflix on May 24th, 2022.

#SuperNature streams on Netflix around the world from May 24th 💥 pic.twitter.com/XqIPJjPUgc — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 2, 2022

Beyond SuperNature and Humanity , Gervais has produced and starred in After Life which concluded with its third season earlier in 2022. He’s also working on a new untitled project for Netflix under his overall deal which was signed back in June 2019 .

Elsewhere, you can still find Gervais in The Willoughbys and Derek, which are both streaming exclusively on Netflix.

Netflix has had a relatively quiet start to 2022 when it comes to stand-up specials. By the end of April 2022, they’ll have released 17 specials altogether including sets from David Spade, Mike Epps, Taylor Tomlinson, Ms. Pat, and Ali Wong.

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Ricky Gervais: Supernature

Review of his new Netflix special

‘Comedy evolves,’ Ricky Gervais tells his SuperNature audience as he explains the nature of stand-up. But his comedy barely does.

The show, released on Netflix today, opens with a riff where he feigns to name-check some female comics to prove women are funny but draws a blank. It’s pretty much the same gag he did about being unable to name any funny black British comedians in Extras 16 years ago.

But that’s the thin end of a wedge of deliberately offensive material that’s showing its age. What was once provocative – about Aids, abortion, Hitler, dwarfs and more – has now turned hack, and Gervais isn’t keeping up.

However, his audience vociferously lap this material up, especially given such once-edgy topics are catnip to the sizeable brigade who believe ‘you can’t say anything anymore’ – his core demographic.

For a man so vociferously opposed to religious fundamentalism, Gervais has his own unbending dogma: that ‘it’s only a joke’ excuses anything a comedian might say. So he hits back at ‘virtue signalling’ and the cancel culture that he believes disproportionately pummelled Louis CK (poor guy, reduced to filling Wembley Arena at £60 a ticket…)

When a Twitter critic accuses Gervais of being ‘as funny as a fart at a baby’s funeral’, he takes it as a compliment, revelling in the fact such a guff would be hilarious precisely because it is so inappropriate. Likewise, he tells a joke about hitting a disabled toddler, and reasonably explains that no one actually got hurt in the making of that punchline.

Yet on the substantial tranche of material about trans women, the morals are murkier. Sure, no one will start hitting toddlers because of a gag, but there are plenty of bigots who get their prejudices reinforced by comedians’ anti-trans quips and will take such hateful comments out into the real world.

Gervais has lots to say about trans women - obsessed, he is - and none of it complimentary. Of course he knows this will annoy people, that’s precisely why he does it; he revels in the reaction. But even if you buy his argument that a joke has no morality - this is still comically lazy stuff depending, as always, on some variation on the tired ‘well I identify as…’ trope. Still, it’s a lucrative stance: Netflix is a generous funder of transphobia, as Dave Chappelle has also found out.

‘I’m rich,’ is a punchline to a few gags in SuperNature, as Gervais acknowledges himself as a ‘white heterosexual multimillionaire’. And he turns it into the rather good joke that being in the 1 per cent makes him a member of a much smaller minority than most racial or sexual community.

Yes, he’s often funny. His best lines will make all but the most fervent liberals laugh despite themselves, which is his aim. But there are just not enough of those moments to break through the more pedestrian progressive-baiting-by-numbers that defines this special.

Gervais is hack on other topics, too, from rectal examination to nudity in gym dressing rooms to noting that living healthily might give you extra years, but they come at the end of your life, not in your prime.

Despite this, one of his strongest routines comes on the most clichéd of topics, the difference between cats and dogs, as he discusses their penises. This is also one of the few segments that refers directly to the purported theme of the special, that nature is so amazing we have no need to invent anything beyond that. What might this show have been had he stuck to his brief?

Instead he gets bogged down in a too-long act-out of what it would be like were he to transition into a woman, just to lean into the subject he knows will provoke controversy, and another imagining God inventing HIV to punish the homosexuals – a routine which would have been bang on the zeitgeist in 1986.

Nature got to be so ‘super’ because of evolution – but Gervais risks going the way of the neanderthal, dying on the hill that jokes are just jokes, never sincere or consequential.

Review date: 24 May 2022 Reviewed by: Steve Bennett

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Creator and star of ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’, Ricky Gervais has won three Golden Globes®, two Primetime Emmys® and seven BAFTAS. ‘The Office’ is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries with seven remakes. The NBC version is the most successful US remake of a British show in more than 30 years.  

Considered the most influential British comedian since Charlie Chaplin, Gervais is an award-winning stand-up comedian, with six international tours to date. His live stand up show ‘Fame’ became the fastest selling UK stand-up show in history. 

Gervais can most recently be seen in his Netflix stand up special “SuperNature,” which premiered in May 2022. He also starred in the dark comedy “After Life,” which he created, directed and executive produced. The series premiered to rave reviews and fan response in 2019, and returned for an equally lauded second season in April 2020. The third and final season premiered in January 2022, also to high acclaim.  

Gervais was first asked to host the Golden Globes® awards ceremony in 2010, making him the first host of the Golden Globes® since 1995. The broadcast was seen by an estimated 250 million viewers. Gervais has since hosted the Golden Globes® in 2011, 2012, and 2016 prior to his most recent appearance as host for the 5th time in 2020.  

Gervais is also featured in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most downloaded internet show of all time. He has written, directed, produced and starred in ‘Cemetery Junction’, ‘The Invention of Lying’, and starred in ‘Ghost Town.’ In 2010, Gervais was named in TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and awarded the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award from the Banff World Television Festival. 

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Creator and star of ‘The Office’ and ‘Extras’, Ricky Gervais has won three Golden Globes®, two Primetime Emmys® and seven BAFTAS. ‘The Office’ is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries with seven remakes. The NBC version is the most successful US remake of a British show in more than 30 years. 

Considered the most influential British comedian since Charlie Chaplin, Gervais is an award-winning stand-up comedian, with six international tours to date. His live stand-up show ‘Fame’ became the fastest selling UK stand-up show in history.

Gervais can most recently be seen in his Netflix stand up special “SuperNature,” which premiered in May 2022. He also starred in the dark comedy “After Life,” which he created, directed and executive produced. The series premiered to rave reviews and fan response in 2019, and returned for an equally lauded second season in April 2020. The third and final season premiered in January 2022, also to high acclaim. 

Gervais was first asked to host the Golden Globes® awards ceremony in 2010, making him the first host of the Golden Globes® since 1995. The broadcast was seen by an estimated 250 million viewers. Gervais has since hosted the Golden Globes® in 2011, 2012, and 2016 prior to his most recent appearance as host for the 5th time in 2020. 

Gervais is also featured in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most downloaded internet show of all time. He has written, directed, produced and starred in ‘Cemetery Junction’, ‘The Invention of Lying’, and starred in ‘Ghost Town.’ In 2010, Gervais was named in TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and awarded the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award from the Banff World Television Festival.

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Ricky Gervais breaks world record with latest comedy tour

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The comedian now has a world record to add to his accolades

Ricky Gervais has bagged himself a world record with one of his stand-up performances on his recent comedy tour.

The comedian, who rose to stardom in the early 2000s for creating The Office and Extras, has spent most of 2023 taking his Armageddon tour across the world.

And one of his shows on the tour now officially holds the Guinness World Record for the  highest gross for a single stand-up performance  ever.

The stand-up’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in LA on May 6 this year grossed a whopping £1,410,000 ($1,790,206.50).

Along with Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, Gervais can now add a world record to his collection of accolades thanks to the history-making show in California.

Congratulations to @rickygervais – his Armageddon tour date at Hollywood Bowl in LA has the highest gross for a single stand-up performance 👏 https://t.co/Jg0q3Gtz4Z — Guinness World Records (@GWR) September 4, 2023

Speaking about the record, the British comic said: “As if packing out The Hollywood Bowl wasn’t enough, now Guinness World Records wants to put me in their big book. What a year!”

“Ricky Gervais is Britain’s biggest comedian. He sells out arenas around the world,” said Ian Coburn from Live Nation.  

His Armageddon tour will continue throughout the remainder of 2023, including three shows at London’s OVO Wembley Arena (6t October, 20th October, 13th December) and 11 nights at the London Palladium (13-16th and 28-30th September, 11-14th October). 

For those who can’t bag a ticket to one of the shows, Netflix has already secured the rights to the tour, so a special will be dropping on the platform once the tour has come to a close.

If you didn't manage to get tickets to see my record-breaking #Armageddon show live, (there were over 18 million ticket requests apparently), don't worry. Netflix have bought it, so you can watch it from the comfort of your home anywhere in the world after I've finished touring. pic.twitter.com/YtoeVvOCbk — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 13, 2023

When Gervais’ last show, SuperNature, landed on Netflix last year, it became one of the most-watched comedy specials that year. 

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