Meet Ricky Gervais
| Meet Ricky Gervais | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Talk show Comedy |
| Developed by | Talkback Thames |
| Written by |
Ricky Gervais Jimmy Carr Robin Ince Stephen Merchant |
| Directed by | Ian Lorimer |
| Presented by | Ricky Gervais |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Peter Fincham |
| Producer(s) | Iain Morris |
| Running time | 30 min per episode |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 22 September – 27 October 2000 |
Meet Ricky Gervais is a talk show written and hosted by the English comedian Ricky Gervais. It was produced by Talkback for Channel 4 in 2000 (repeated 2003) and ran for one series on Friday nights.
The show aired throughout the time Ricky Gervais was also writing the first series of the highly successful The Office for BBC2.
Guests were supposedly interviewed by Gervais in the original TV studio chairs of famous people. Gervais was seated in Michael Aspel's Aspel & Co leather chair and guests seated in Ronnie Corbett's monologue chair, and Grandad from Only Fools and Horses' armchair. The guests included John Virgo, Tommy Walsh, Michael Winner, Wayne Hemingway, Paul Daniels, Tony Hart, Penny Smith and Jimmy Savile.
The show regularly featured darts assistant, Tony Green, who would take his place as the general stooge and gameshow assistant. On the first episode, Gervais claimed that Green came free with the original Bullseye dartboard, which he supposedly found himself whilst building the rest of the set.
Also, the show did not have a theme tune so at the end of each show, Gervais asked viewers to record and send in their own mixes. Few were received. Two of the episodes used a theme tune co-written and performed by Stewart Ferris and Emma Burgess.
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