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Ricky Gervais

About Ricky Gervais

English comedian, writer, director, and producer born 25 June 1961 in Reading. Co-created and starred in The Office (UK) and Extras with Stephen Merchant. Created, wrote, directed and starred in After Life for Netflix. A polarising stand-up and awards-show host with a career built on mocking celebrity pretension.

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Ricky Gervais as Tony Johnson with a black Labrador at his side in a Cotswold village churchyard with a Norman church tower and autumn countryside behind them, After Life title overlay.
Tony and his Labrador in the churchyard of a sleepy Cotswold village – Ricky Gervais' grieving newspaperman at the heart of After Life.
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