Stephen Merchant on Jimmy Kimmel September 18, 2008

I’m so happy that visiontellie3 uploading this video!  So many people in the U.S. are not familiar with the hilarious personality of Stephen Merchant.  Merchant works with Ricky Gervais in almost all his projects including, “Extra’s” and “The Ricky Gervais Podcast” which is downloaded like  55 million times a year!

The very tall comedian was on Jimmy Kimmel last night.  He chats about coming to America to interview porn stars, how he and Ricky Gervais met, Clint Eastwoods reaction to him, and the Emmys.

Late Night TV Rewind 7/17/08 July 18, 2008

The hot “Golden Girls” star Betty White confesses that she is sleeping with the drummer from Coldplay!

Ricky Gervais on David Letterman Part I (Congrats Ricky on your Emmy nominations for brilliant show Extra’s!)  There is a lot of tension going back and forth with Gervais and Letterman.

From Podfather to Blogfather! May 28, 2008

How many titles can Ricky Gervais have? The brilliant inventor of “The Office” is becoming a fellow blogger! Ricky has been spending some time across the pond making some movie magic. He has made two movies entitled, “Ghost Town”, “Men from the Pru” and a third movie where for the first time ever he is writing and directing entitled, “This Side of the Truth”.

How does this guy find time to do all that and blog?

Here is a clip of an interview where he talks about his role in “Ghost Town”

British Invasion May 2, 2008

Last night L.A. hosted the inaugural British Comedy Awards which celebrated the best of 2007′s t.v. and theatrical comedies. Guests in attendance include one of my favorite singers Joss Stone and Cat Deeley.

A special honor was given to Scottish actor Billy Connolly for Lifetime Achievement Award for Comedy. Billy says he was only given a weeks notice of the award so he wonders who was their first choice who obviously turned them down! He used to be on an old show here called Head of the Class.

Actor Simon Pegg, who was nominated for Best British Comedy Film and Best British Comedy Performer, flew in especially for the event. This guy is so funny! Most American audiences were introduced to him via Run Fatboy Run which is not one of the best examples of his work. He will be in the Star Trek movie playing the role of Scotty.

The jetlagged star insisted American and British humor isn’t so different, saying: “There’s much made of the supposed difference between us, but we all find the same things funny I think.”

Ashley Jensen was also in attendance. She is currently on the show Ugly Betty but is better known I think for her role as the clueless Maggie on the show Extra’s. During some Q & A she hinted that writers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant haven’t completely ruled out a return for the show.

Last year’s Christmas special, which featured Ricky’s character Andy rejecting his fame after appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, was believed to be the show’s final episode.

Ashley says if Ricky and Stephen do pen another episode, she’ll be on the first plane back to Britain.

“They’re onto various other projects already but I would love to do another one because it’s such a fun character to play, and it’s just such a beautifully written piece of work that I’m really fortunate to have been in and that I’m really proud to have been in,” said Jensen.

We hope to hear some good news about Extra’s soon!

P.S. If anyone saw the Christmas episode, I am still looking for that ringtone that was played during the scene at Carphone Warehouse!