RICKY GERVAIS THE ANTI-CELEBRITY

WITH YET ANOTHER HIT TV SERIES UNDER HIS BELT, AND PLENTY OF TIME ON HIS HANDS, THE FUNNYMAN SETS HIS SIGHTS ON WHINING STARS

Unapologetic comedian Ricky Gervais has made a sport of skewering the lives of spoiled celebrities, ridiculing them mercilessly in his role as five-time host of the Golden Globe Awards. And these days, the coronavirus pandemic – and the response of the pampered and privileged – have provided him with plenty of new fodder.

“You won’t hear me complain,” he told The New York Times about locking down in London with his girlfriend of 38 years, Jane Fallon. “Not when, every day, I see some millionaire celebrity going, ‘I’m sad that I’m not on telly tonight.’ Or, ‘I had a swim in the pool that made me feel a little bit better’.” In fact, for The Office creator, “life hasn’t changed much. I didn’t go out a lot, and there’s always enough booze in the house for a nuclear winter.”