VIDEOS – Ricky Gervais is 50 today, top five reasons to love him

ByStarcasm Staff

Ricky Gervais bottle explosion
I’m a hopeless fan of Ricky Gervais, so in honor of his big 5-0 birthday today I’ve put together a list of reasons why everyone should love this cheeky little rich bastard from Reading.

He’s a ladykiller:

He LOVES little people AND little monsters, and brings them together for the good of everyone (or really, just for his own amusement):

He introduced the world to the greatest mind of our time, Karl Pilkington:

He’s an amazing musician:

He never offends the Hollywood elite:


Ricky’s currently working on a new sitcom, Life’s Too Short with Warwick Davis.

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