"Actor: Ricky Gervais"

• David Brent: Life on the Road | Blu Ray | (12/12/2016) from £4.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD sees the highly anticipated big screen debut of one of comedy's best-loved characters, David Brent (Ricky Gervais). The film catches up with Brent twelve years on from the BBC mockumentary ˜The Office' to find he is now a travelling salesman with Lavichem, a cleaning and ladies' personal hygiene products company. However, he hasn't given up on his dream of rock stardom and is about to embark on a self-financed UK tour with his band, ˜Foregone Conclusion'.

• The Office: Complete Box Set (Series 1 - 2 plus Christmas Specials) | DVD | (22/11/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £22.46 (128.12%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson); and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim (Martin Freeman), whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of ! the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by codirector-cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character. Fawlty is an exaggeration of reality, and therefore a safely comic figure. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller The second series exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais is once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, but in this series, Brent's to-the-camera assertions concerning his management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil (Patrick Baladi) takes over as area manager. To compensate, Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer-motivator-comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace. Meanwhile, Tim, who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish Gareth, continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis), a sympathetic character persisting in a relationship with a man about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity--an impromptu office dance, a mixture of "Flashdance and MC Hammer" as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. --David Stubbs The brilliant and devastating comedy of The Office is brought to a satisfying conclusion in The Office Special, originally a two-part Christmas special on the BBC, set three years after the end of the faux-documentary's second season. The former office manager David (Ricky Gervais) now ekes out a desperate existence as an oblivious quasi-celebrity, making awkward, humiliating visits back to the office staff he still believes loves him. Gawky Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) has risen to manager and become a petty tyrant, while the sweet but snide Tim (Martin Freeman) continues to pine for former receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who fled to Florida with her fiance. When the documentary crew pays for Dawn to return for the holiday party, an unpredictable reunion looms ahead. The Office fuses scathing humor and genuine empathy, turning excruciating social discomfort into inspired satire. Fans will find this special rewarding in all respects. --Bret Fetzer

• The Ricky Gervais Show | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The hit HBO animation featuring Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington.

• Ricky Gervais Live 3 - Fame | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (635.45%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Ricky Gervais returns with this brand new stand up show Fame where he turns his comic attention to the world of the celebrity and everything that fame can bring both good and bad. Ricky just keeps getting better and better as a stand-up and this show should be the funniest yet after all it's a subject he's well acquainted with.

• How To Lose Friends And Alienate People / Ghost Town | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  How To Lose Friends And Alienate People: How To Lose Friends And Alienate People Stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity fame and glamour. His alternative magazine Post Modern Review pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen that will either make him or break him. Ghost Town: Deadpan hilarity and quirky charm come alive in Ghost Town starring Britain's favourite comedian Ricky Gervais (The Office) as social reject Bertram Pincus. Emmy award winner and seven times Bafta winner Gervais proves his Hollywood worth in this transatlantic feel good love story about a man a woman and a ghost. Pincus is a New York City dentist with horrendous people skills. When a routine surgery goes awry Pincus is pronounced dead but is miraculously revived seven minutes later. The ill-mannered Manhattanite suffers only one lasting after-effect; the ability to see and speak with the dead. Word soon gets out in the spirit community and Pincus is irritated to discover he's the go-to-guy for every phantom with unfinished business in the city. At the forefront of the ghostly mob is recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear - Little Miss Sunshine Baby Mama) who is determined to stop the remarriage of his widow Gwen (Ta Leoni - Spanglish Fun with Dick and Jane). The laughs unfold when the prickly and romantically inexperienced Pincus smitten with Gwen tries to woo her away from her betrothed - with hysterically awkward results. With sharp performances and beautifully dry Gervais execution Ghost Town won't fail to make viewers laugh out loud. With a host of special features including commentary from renowned director David Koepp and 'making Ghost Town' this is one DVD that should be in the collection of every Ricky Gervais fan.

• The Office: Christmas Specials | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £4.89   |  Saving you £15.10 (75.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The two-part conclusion to The Office bids farewell to David Brent and his long-suffering co-workers in a surprisingly poignant not to say dignified manner. Supposedly accompanied by the fly-on-the-wall documentary crew three years after his highly undignified exit from Slough-based paper merchants Wernham Hogg, the first part reveals Brent as a travelling salesman by day and D-list "celebrity" by night, enduring humiliating club appearances organised by his clueless manager. But Brent can't keep away from his old stamping-ground in Slough, especially with the imminent prospect of the annual Christmas party. As much to spite suave rival Neil as anything else, Brent is on an agonisingly painful hunt for a date to bring along. Back at Wernham Hogg, lovelorn Tim has to endure not only the officious behaviour of Gareth, now his manager, but also a cheerless existence bereft of Dawn, who is living in Florida with boorish fiancé Lee. Matters are brought to a head for all concerned--including Lee and Dawn, flown over specially for the occasion--when they finally gather in the office for the party. As ever the script is full of priceless one-liners (witness big Keith's chat-up spiel, as he promises "at least one orgasm" to any woman), and the show is peppered with those direct appeals to camera (Tim's weary "I don't believe he just said that" look, Brent's desperate self-justificatory "Eh?"), as well as achingly effective silences that simultaneously enhance the fly-on-the-wall conceit and heighten the comic effect. Without descending into the sentimental or the trite, somehow The Office closes for business on a genuinely heartwarming note. On the DVD: This single disc has good, if unexceptional, bonus features. There's a behind-the-scenes documentary in similar format to those on the previous releases, a commentary from Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais on Episode 2, a funny and deservedly self-congratulatory featurette on the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the full video of David Brent's single "If You Don't Know Me By Now" plus a recording session for "Freelove Freeway" (with Noel Gallagher on backing vocals). --Mark Walker

• Ricky Gervais Live 2 - Politics | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £4.18   |  Saving you £17.81 (426.08%)   |  RRP £21.99

  ""Most comedians slog around the country for fifteen years playing to students drunks and even women in grotty venues with the vague hope that someone will give them their own TV show. I'm doing it the other way round. In my show I will be doing my usual brand of brilliant irreverent yet observational comedy covering such universal subjects as meeting Jack Nicholson driving around in limo's and not putting my hand in my pocket once. Sounds great to me!"" - Ricky Gervais 'Another

• Escape From Planet Earth | Blu Ray | (14/07/2014) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

• Extras - The Collection | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £32.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (21.22%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Extras is the spiritual successor to The Office created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Series 1: Ricky plays Andy Millman who having given up his day job to be an actor finds he just can't land the big parts. In fact he rarely gets a speaking role so spends most of his days stuck in a green room with other extras envying the A-list stars with his fellow actor Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Each episode Extras has a different setting and cameo appearances from guest artists including: Samuel L Jackson Kate Winslet Ben Stiller Ross Kemp Vinnie Jones and Les Dennis! Series 2: The second series sees Andy (Gervais) experience the highs he has longed for with his newly written sitcom 'When The Whistle Blows'. However while the show achieves high ratings Andy's creative integrity is under threat from the catchphrase-riddled mainstream appeal of it all. The answer; artistic credibility and celebrity friends which leaves poor Maggie out in the cold now working as a background artist on Andy's breakthrough venture. As before a slew of high-profile celebrities pop up for some hilarious cameos including Sir Ian McKellen Robert De Niro and Orlando Bloom amongst others all willing and able to humiliate themselves!

• The Invention of Lying | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £5.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (235.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a world where all that people speak is the truth, and nothing but the truth, the lying man is king...or so that's what perennial loser Mark (Ricky Gervais) thinks!

• Extras - Series 2 | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £6.29   |  Saving you £15.70 (249.60%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The story of a man with small parts. The second series sees Andy (Gervais) experience the highs he has longed for with his newly written sitcom 'When The Whistle Blows'. However while the show achieves high ratings Andy's creative integrity is under threat from the catchphrase-riddled mainstream appeal of it all. The answer; artistic credibility and celebrity friends which leaves poor Maggie out in the cold now working as a background artist on Andy's breakthrough venture. As before a slew of high-profile celebrities pop up for some hilarious cameos including Sir Ian McKellen Robert De Niro and Orlando Bloom amongst others all willing and able to humiliate themselves!

• Extras - The Christmas Specials | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As Andy's celebrity rises Maggie's life is in freefall. But is life at the top any better than it is at the bottom? Will Andy get respect as a serious actor and break free from the albatross that is the catchphrase hell of his sitcom character Ray? Or should he just settle for playing a giant slug in Doctor Who? Sit back and enjoy both Christmas specials that had the nation glued to their screens featuring the usual cavalcade of celebrity cameos in this hilarious and often touching rumination of the cult of fame.

• Robbie The Reindeer Trilogy - The Whole Herd | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £7.25   |  Saving you £0.75 (10.34%)   |  RRP £8.00

  Robbie The Reindeer Trilogy: The Whole Herd

• An Idiot Abroad 2 | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £2.29   |  Saving you £17.70 (88.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Everyone's favourite reluctant traveller is back in the departure lounge. But this time Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are sending Karl Pilkington around the world with a list of the ultimate things to do before you die. Armed with this definitive bucket list Karl will be dispatched to far flung corners of the world to swim with dolphins travel Route 66 and stay on a private desert island in an attempt to prove whether these so called 'things to do before you die' really are what they're cracked up to be. After seeing the Seven Wonders Karl's not exactly eager to travel again so he's only agreed to do another series if the rules change. Karl wants to choose where he goes and what he does from the Bucket List. Ricky and Steve are both happy to go along with Karl's wishes to get him through the departure gates. Once Karl's back on the road they'll be back to their old tricks though throwing in unwelcome surprises for Karl along the way to make sure he's always pushed out of his comfort zone...

• The Office - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £12.46 (71.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base that the programme acquired watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional Slough paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television programme. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth, a paradigm of Andy McNab's readership; the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch; and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim, whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Alan Partridge or Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character than either. Partridge and Fawlty are exaggerations of reality, and therefore safely comic figures. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller On the DVD: Series 1 is tastefully packaged as a two-disc set appropriately adorned with John Betjeman's poem "Slough". The special features occupy the second disc and consist of a laid-back 39-minute documentary entitled "How I Made The Office by Ricky Gervais", with cowriter Stephen Merchant and the cast contributing. Here we discover that Gervais spends his time on set "mucking around and annoying people", and that actress Lucy Davis (Dawn) is the daughter of Jasper Carrott; as well as seeing parts of the original short film and the original BBC pilot episode; plus we get to enjoy many examples of the cast corpsing throughout endless retakes. There are also a handful of deleted scenes, none of which were deleted because they weren't funny. Series 2 is a single-disc release, but the extra features are enjoyable nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant feature in a gleefully shambolic video diary--highlights of which include Gervais flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes (mostly of him corpsing throughout dozens of takes) and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. --Mark Walker

• Derek - Series 2 | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £8.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (132.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A year has gone by since we last visited Broad Hill Retirement Home and the old gang is back. Derek Noakes (Ricky Gervais) is still spreading kindness wherever he goes. Kev (David Earl) is still drunk. Dougie (Karl Pilkington) is still grumpy. Hannah (Kerry Godliman) is still the salt of the earth. Wayward youth Vicky (Holli Dempsey) is now working there full - time and providing the residents with free slippers - no questions asked. And there are some new elderly tenants who've since joined.

• Derek - Series 1 | DVD | (11/11/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet Derek Noakes (Ricky Gervais) a tender, innocent man whose love for his job and the people he cares for shines through. He's 49 years old and loves animals, Rolf Harris, Jesus, 'Deal or No Deal', 'Million Pound Drop' and 'Britain's Got Talent' - but his main hobby is autograph hunting. He works in a retirement home with his mate and landlord, Dougie (Karl Pilkington in his very first acting role). Derek cares deeply for old people because they're kind and funny and tell him stories about the olden days. Hannah (Kerry Godliman) is a care worker at the home and is Derek's best friend. She's smart, witty and hardworking, but unlucky in love, and like Derek, always puts other people first.

• Ricky Gervais - 3 Disc Box Set | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Animals Fame Science

• An Idiot Abroad - Series 1-3 Boxset | Blu Ray | (24/12/2012) from £24.28   |  Saving you £10.71 (44.11%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Series 1Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world... under the pretence of visiting the Seven Wonders. However, along the way the 'Little Englander' must endure camel rides, jungle treks, tribal customs and local oddballs while dining on toads and testicles... and searching for a decent lavatory. Series 2This time we see Karl set out on the ultimate bucket list. Karl is dispatched to far-flung corners of the world to complete a definitive list of things to do before you die in an attempt to prove whether they really are what they're cracked up to be. Series 3In this final series, Ricky Gervais has persuaded Karl to embark on an epic journey following in the footsteps of the famous explorer Marco Polo, but this time he'll have a little company... Ricky is sending Warwick Davis to join Karl on his 5000 mile journey from Venice to China.

• Ricky Gervais - Live - Animals/Politics/Fame | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £39.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This set includes: Ricky Gervais: Live - Animals Filmed during a limited run at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London the show is based around Ricky's fascination with the animal kingdom and covers subjects as diverse as classifying bats gay animals and the Great War poets. From the moment the curtain goes up it becomes clear that David Attenborough has nothing to worry about as Gervais accompanies a short film on animal copulation with a unique and not entirely scientific narration! Fans will wonder if any subject is taboo as the comedy drifts from his interpretation of the Bible to parts of the animal kingdom that the BBC never dared to cover. Ricky Gervais: Live 2 - Politics Ricky Gervais recorded live at the Palace Theatre in London in 2004. Subjects up for discussion include Thora Hird and being mistaken for Johnny Vegas. Ricky Gervais: Live 3 - Fame Ricky Gervais returns with this brand new stand up show Fame where he turns his comic attention to the world of the celebrity and everything that fame can bring both good and bad. Ricky just keeps getting better and better as a stand-up and this show should be the funniest yet after all it's a subject he's well acquainted with.