"I was a pop star for a year," Ricky Gervais tells PEOPLE's Editor-in-Chief Jess Cagle in the latest episode of The Jess Cagle Interview (streaming now on People TV) Dana Rose Falcone is a ...

Before he became a stand-up comedian, in the late 1990s, Ricky Gervais worked in music (he was an early manager of Suede), ...

Question from Adam Wilson, Beverley: Was 'Free Love Freeway' written especially for The Office or was it one of Ricky Gervais' own from "the band days" before he started acting? Ricky: No ...

Ricky Gervais had to contend with a stony-faced response ... Gervais cracked the joke at Geldof’s expense in the wake of Band Aid 40– a fresh attempt at making the hit song “Do They Know ...

He later, briefly, managed the band Suede, before landing a job on London's XFM radio station where he started developing a taste for comedy, and a character called Seedy Boss who would later become ...