BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
(FOUR) AUDIO STAR
He’s famous for a lot of things. One thing that the American audience doesn’t realize is that he’s a pretty big audio star across the pond. Gervais got into radio as an events manager. He would also go on to be the musical advisor for a BBC show. Once The Office started he and Merchant started a Saturday radio show. They did this on and off for a few years. In 2005 they took their show to podcast. This was popular as hell. The show would reach mass success and broke records.
(THREE) WRITER
Gervais has also written books! First he wrote the children’s book “Flanimals” in 2004. In 2005 he released a sequel titled “More Flanimals”. Then from there, there are a few more. There is quite a bit of push and merchandising from them. Along with this, the scripts for his shows The Office AND Extras was released in book format.
(TWO) BOXER
Ricky Gervais was a boxer? Yeah… once. He had a charity boxing match against some famous rich guy in 2002. Very uncharacteristic of Gervais he went at it strong. He trained and put in efforts to get fit for it. The BBC televised the fight, which had to be awesome for Gervais as he won after a split decision.
(ONE) MOVIE STAR
When he’s not doing stand up… or apparently doing a whole lot of other things. Gervais is still an actor. I think some people forget this. They automatically think he’s just that weird English guy who hosts award shows, appears on talk shows, and takes credit for Steve Carell’s life. Of course we know his TV stuff, but he’s done some fine movie work as well. Once we get past the Night at the Museum stuff at least. He did Ghost Town, a very underrated comedy and then The Invention of Lying which I dare anyone to watch and not find enjoyment in.
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