The Invention of Lying

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A late entrant to the world of comedy, Gervais only started to try to tap his talent for making people laugh in 1998, at the age of 36.

Before that, he had spent seven years spent as an entertainments manager for a student union.

And his initial ambitions were musical, playing in a failed Eighties band called Seona Dancing.

He later, briefly, managed the band Suede, before landing a job on London's XFM radio station where he started developing a taste for comedy, and a character called Seedy Boss who would later become The Office's David Brent.

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Deeply deeply untalented, unfunny man

Jenavive, January 2009

Terrible live show Fame. £30 for 40 minutes too big for his boots!

Louise Hinton, November 2008

He tells jokes about Stephen Hawking. Coming from someone that thought Joey Deacon was the BBC's gift for light entertainment, I think it's superb that we've finally got someone that's both offensive and funny at the same time. The fact that he's also managed to conquer Britain and America with his comedy suggests that I'm not alone on this one. He's a guilty pleasure, as all the best pleasures are.

Richard, August 2008

The Office is alright but I can't see why it is viewed as being the 'most original comedy ever'. Programmes like The Day Today were doing this sort of thing half a decade before The Office came along, but because the concept was stretched out to half an hour people seem to have heralded it as the best thing since sliced bread.

Billy, May 2008

All you people who dont find RG comical - are you serious? He is genuinely funny ,happy and comedic. He is the epitome of self deprecation

clever trevor, May 2008

He has produced some brilliant stuff no doubt. But his world does have a feeling of cruelty about it. There were times when I felt sorry for David Brent.

Paul, October 2007

Fantastic stand up. Genius sitcoms. Amazing podcasts. It is a shame that some people don't understand his satirical comedy, but just as he said himself, he doesn't want those people to find him funny.

Natasha, October 2007

There are David Brent characters in all parts of the world; the difference is Gervais takes them too seriously and decides it's OK to laugh at them. This is where his comedy fails to win everyone over. He might have appeared in films in Hollywood but surely that just demonstrates how little Hollywood understands or cares about comedy; they'll just run with the herd.

David, October 2007

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