VIDEO: First Look - Ricky Gervais Revives 'OFFICE' Character in New Web Series

By: May. 14, 2013
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Ricky Gervais will be bringing back his character David Brent from the UK version of The Office for an all-new web series, consisting of a series of guitar tutorials. The series, to be titled 'Learn Guitar with David Brent, premieres May 20th on YouTube. Check out the trailer below!

Gervais is well known for his the UK series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Officeand Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also starred in Hollywood films, Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show. More recently, he hosted the Golden Globe Awardsconsecutively between 2010 and 2012.

Gervais has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Emmy Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people.



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