Ricky Gervais Career goes from strength to strength with him spending a lot of his time in the US, however he returns to the UK this Autumn / Winter to perform Ricky Gervais Live Dates across the country. The Ricky Gervais Science tour as it is being titled is Ricky Gervais 4th UK Stand up Tour.
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Gervais made a few attempts at stand-up in the late 1990s, but his first successful show took place at the Cafe Royal, as part of the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Titled Rubbernecker, the show also featured Jimmy Carr, Robin Ince, and Stephen Merchant.
Gervais later toured the UK in 2003 with his stand-up show Animals. The Politics tour followed a year later. Both of these shows were recorded for release on DVD and television broadcast. The third part of the themed live trilogy, Fame, took place in 2007. It started in Glasgow in January and ended in Sheffield in April. Blackpool reported selling out of tickets within 45 minutes of them going on sale.[28] More dates were added.
Newsnight Review’s panel saw Animals during its Bloomsbury run and covered it in January 2003. They were not favourable, with Private Eye editor Ian Hislop being the most explicit in his criticism.[29] After this, Gervais closed each show by calling Hislop an “ugly little pug-faced cunt”. Further coverage on Newsnight Review has been overwhelmingly favourable, with the panelists playing themselves in promos for the second series of Extras. Panel regulars Germaine Greer, Mark Kermode, and Mark Lawson also appeared as themselves reviewing When The Whistle Blows in a series episode. Critic Mark Lawson is a great admirer of Gervais and Merchant, having interviewed them extensively for television, print Front Row, and the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Fame was the subject of some controversy in January 2007, when Gervais told a story, ostensibly about how people will do anything to become famous, to a Scottish audience.[30] The story referred to a question asked of Gervais five years earlier by a reporter: what could someone do to become famous like you? To which he replied, “Go out and kill a prostitute”. He followed up with the punchline, “I won’t do that bit in Ipswich”, referring to the December 2006 murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich. The joke drew criticism from the father of one of the victims Tania Nicol: “These days, they want to make a joke out of anything. I feel he’s just being uncaring, quite honestly”. Gervais did not apologise but did defend himself: “I do want people to know that that happened five years ago and is not related to anything now. That is the problem with comedy, a joke that is funny today can be a terrible faux pas tomorrow”.
He has performed stand-up in the U.S. three times—he performed two warm-up shows at the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center and headlined David Bowie’s High Line Festival in May 2007.[31]
Gervais’s next show will be entitled Science, an eleven date tour commences in August 2009 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow.[32]
In November 2009, he will headline the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival at Carnegie Hall, New York. [33]
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