How did Ricky Gervais do as Golden Globes host?

When I talked with Ricky Gervais a few weeks ago, he said his game plan as host of the Golden Globes was to keep things rolling and have fun with it. He also said comedians are "meant to push the barriers a little bit and see what happens." He defini

More Karl Pilkington nuggets from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant - TCA Report

Yesterday, Nick told you about Ricky Gervais' plans for his Golden Globe hosting stint on Sunday, as well as some details about his new HBO show The Ricky Gervais Show. Just as a reminder, the HBO show is an animated version of his wildly popular pod

Ricky Gervais to guest-star on The Office?

While promoting his new, self-titled animated HBO show based on his podcasts, Ricky Gervais hinted that his boss character of David Brent may make an appearance on the American version of The Office. Gervais and his writing partner and co-creator Ste

Ricky Gervais Makes Dig About Mel Gibson's Drinking

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Quickies: Glamour Puss

Mischa Barton leads a glamorous life, shopping at high class joints like Burlington Coat Factory. (EvilBeet) Jimmy Kimmel lays the smackdown on Jay Leno. (LitelySalted) Amy Winehouse has OCD now, apparently. (AgentBedhead) The 2010 Golden Globe predi

Best TV of the '00s: Comedic Actor

More of our best of the decade coverage, which started on Tuesday. You can read the other posts at the link above. Here, we talk about the funniest actors of the last ten years. If you want to be a great comedic actor, you can never let on that you k

Ricky Gervais' podcast coming to HBO

Remember The Ricky Gervais Show? That hilarious podcast that featured the genius of Karl Pilkington and was the most downloaded thing in the history of the universe of everything? It's coming to HBO. The world's most successful podcast is getting th

Sneak Peek: Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes

I never really thought we'd get an in-depth interview with Ricky Gervais on a show like CBS' 60 Minutes, but he's going to be profiled on this Sunday's episode. Lesley Stahl did the interview (and it was co-directed by Gervais, it seems). Here's a pr

Chris Martin is Cheating on Gwyneth with Kate Bosworth

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is reportedly cheating on wife Gwyneth Paltrow with actress Kate Bosworth. Ooh, it’s about to get all kinds of Dynasty in here! According to Star Magazine [Everyone is talking] about Chris Martin’s hot make-out ses

Ricky Gervais to Host Golden Globes

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SpongeBob is getting married

I'm not sure how this is going to change the show (though a show with freaky sponge/squirrel mutant children might be interesting), but SpongeBob SquarePants is getting married! Yes, the yellow square will finally tie the knot with the lady squirrel

Rita Rocks season two -- An early look

Rita Rocks is premiering its second season on Lifetime tonight, along with Sherri Shepherd's new sitcom, Sherri. For those of you who haven't seen the show before, Rita stars Mad TV's Nicole Sullivan, who plays Rita, a suburban mom of two daughters w

LOL: Chris Rock Speaks the Truth About Roman Polanski

I've been surprised by the groundswell of support for the notion of freeing Roman Polanski since he was arrested on Sunday in Zurich. Ok, Debra Winger saying the arrest was part of a "philistine collusion"...whatever. But then a whole bunch of great

Shutter Island Movie Trailer #2

Paramount Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Shutter Island. You might recognize some of the scenes as the new trailer starts off pretty close to the first release, playing off of the s

Spike Lee and Robert De Niro Serialize Alphabet City for Showtime

All the big names are going to cable. We just reported on Martin Scorsese's work on an HBO series called Boardwalk Empire (starring Steve Buscemi) and now two other giants of the New York filmmaking scene are heading to showtime: Spike Lee and Robert