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SPOILERS: Martin Freeman Talks Becoming Bilbo Baggins In 'The Hobbit'
12/14/2012
Martin Freeman, 41, the British actor hitherto most famous for portraying Tim Canterbury — the character on whom Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) was originally based — in the BBC Golden Globe-winning The Office, created by Ricky Gervais, as well as his roles in Love, Actually, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the BBC Benedict Cumberbatch series, Sherlock, in which Freeman plays Dr.
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Ricky Gervais Addresses New 'Golden Globes' Hosts Tina Fey And Amy Poehler
10/17/2012
After three consecutive years of shocking and offending A-listers at the annual Golden Globe Awards, British comedian Ricky Gervais will officially not be returning to host the live NBC presentation in 2013, as it was recently announced that NBC veterans and consummate comedic duo Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will do the honors.
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EMMY SPOILERS: Host Jimmy Kimmel Talks Nominees, Promises 'Weird Stuff'
09/21/2012
While the analysts and experts are fussing about which esteemed actors will walk away with winged gold statues at the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night at Los Angeles' Nokia Theater, first-time host Jimmy Kimmel is anxiously awaiting the world's reaction to the antics he has planned.
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FUNNY: Celebrities Tweet Their Reactions To iPhone 5
09/12/2012
The newly-released iPhone 5 may not stop you from drunk-dialing your exes — yet — but it is 18% thinner and 20% lighter than its predecessor, making it the thinnest smartphone in the world according to Apple.
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'The Office' Will Pack Up Its Desk After Nine Seasons
08/22/2012
After nine seasons, the mockumentary-style comedy The Office — once merely a fledgling, farfetched American remake of a British sleeper hit and now a verified mainstay of Thursday night television on NBC — will be finishing out its run at the end of the upcoming season in 2013.
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Life's Too Short
02/20/2012
Still enamored by familiar, multi-camera set-up sitcoms with laugh tracks, Americans have been reluctant to drink too deep of the well that is black comedy – a genre that British television has steadily refined into an artform.
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The Ricky Gervais Show
04/07/2010
The love affair between HBO and Ricky Gervais continues in The Ricky Gervais Show, which is an animated series of six-year-old podcasts. The premise of the show is that Ricky Gervais, his longtime collaborater Stephen Merchant, and a producer and friend of theirs, Karl Pilkington, who is one of the supidest men ever to be podcasted, sit around and talk.
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The Invention of Lying
10/12/2009
While this broadly drawn rom com with added gimmick is far from the most inspired concept – its little more than a reverse Liar Liar and something that ten years ago would have surely been earmarked as a throwaway vehicle for Jim Carey – it does serve to highlight just how much a comedy script can benefit from being written with a specific comedian in mind.
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Golden Globes 2012: The Funniest Moments
01/16/2012
The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards have come and gone, leaving as many bruised egos and crushed hopes in their wake as empty spray-on tan bottles. About 16.8 million viewers — roughly the same as last year's numbers — tuned in to see host Ricky Gervais serve Hollywood its own (heavily insured) rear end on a silver platter, but those who did were probably disappointed.
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Golden Globes Nominates Brad Pitt, 'Descendants,' 'The Help'
12/15/2011
The nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday morning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California. Leading the pack with this year's nods are the George Clooney drama, The Descendents, the civil rights movement piece, The Help, and the black-and-white The Artist.
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FUNNY: Ricky Gervais' Lost Golden Globe Jabs
01/10/2012
Comedian Abbi Crutchfield finds the jokes Ricky Gervais cut from the Golden Globes
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Ricky Gervais Prepped For More Globes Zingers
01/06/2012
When Ricky Gervais hosted The Golden Globes last year, he famously ruffled a few feathers by making fun of Hollywood right in front of of their faces. Some people thought he crossed the line, but just as many laughed till they were in stitches.
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Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Duet New Year's Song
12/30/2011
They've known each other for 12 years and filmed two movies together, and now Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are expressing their love of music together on YouTube. The friends and costars did a cover of Frank Loesser's 1947 song, "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" — with her playing the ukulele and him strumming the guitar — and posted it on her website, HelloGiggles.
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Ricky Gervais's Lost Golden Globes Jokes
09/04/2011
Comedian Abbi Crutchfield finds the jokes Ricky Gervais cut from the Golden Globes
