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Get ready for buttons to be pushed, lines to be crossed and laughs to be had.

Outspoken creator and star of the British “The Office” Ricky Gervais is crossing the pond and heading to the U.S. and Canada for four huge shows in June, July and August as part of his massive, international ‘Armageddon Tour.’

That includes back to back gigs at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Friday, June 30 and Saturday, July 1.

Want to see Gervais live as he prepares material for his 2024 Netflix special?

Well, thankfully, you can still pick up last-minute tickets for the five-time Golden Globe host’s pair of Big Apple gigs.

They’re not particularly cheap though.

At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on seats was $158 before fees on Vivid Seats.

Should you choose to see the funnyman in Canada come August, you’ll find much more affordable inventory.

Based on our findings, some tickets started at $60 USD before fees for those shows.

For more information on catching the original Michael Scott — David Brent, for those in the know — live, keep reading.

We’ve got everything you need to know and more below.

All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.

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Ricky Gervais has announced a slew of new arena tour dates for his massive ‘Armaggedon’ World Tour.

Produced by Live Nation, the show will see Gervais continue to take his brand-new stand-up show to audiences around the globe, throughout this year and into 2024.

The acclaimed British comedian has already visited some of the biggest venues in the UK across the Armageddon tour, and today announces further UK dates in Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Nottingham, Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol. In the autumn, he will return to London for four dates at the prestigious London Palladium (13th – 16th September) and a massive show at London’s OVO Wembley Arena (6th October).

With some of the biggest European venues already under his belt in Amsterdam, Prague & Helsinki, Gervais now announces further arena gigs across Europe for 2023, in Vienna, Dublin, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, Stockholm, Berlin and Munich.

Stateside, Gervais was already lined up to play two sell-out shows at NY’s Radio City Music Hall (30th June & 1st July), and a night at LA’s Hollywood Bowl (6th May), which is set to be one of his biggest stand-up gigs yet.

Today, further US & Canada dates have been announced in New York (Beacon Theatre, 1st May), Toronto (Scotiabank Arena, 10th August) and Montreal (Place Bell, 12th August).

“Ricky Gervais is Britain’s biggest comedian. He sells out arenas around the world,” said Ian Coburn, Live Nation.

“When I was invited to play the iconic Hollywood Bowl, I said “What if it rains?” This pretty much sums up how British people think,” said Gervais.

Tickets will be available starting with a Live Nation presale beginning Wednesday 29th March at 10am local time. The general on sale will begin Friday 31st March at 10am local time onlivenation.com. Tickets for previously announced dates are available now on livenation.com .

As Gervais has done with his previous tours, a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to charity.

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Considered one of the most influential British comedians since Charlie Chaplin, (he received the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy 2016 BAFTA/LA) Ricky Gervais is the creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek, and the critically acclaimed Netflix hit After Life.

Following the global success of his two previous Netflix stand-up specials ‘Humanity’ and ‘Supernature’, 2023 saw Gervais release a third special and his biggest to date, ‘Armageddon’. It won a Golden Globe, was the global number 1 most-watched show on Netflix, and followed a record-breaking international tour, selling out 85 arena dates across the world. Gervais’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing comedy gig ever.

Gervais has won countless awards across his career and enjoyed huge critical success for the outstanding three series of After Life. His hit series The Office is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries, with 13 remakes.

Ricky has hosted the Golden Globes awards five times, in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

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British comedian Ricky Gervais is extending his massive comedy outing and adding more dates for his highly-coveted 2023 run! The Armageddon tour brings the iconic host, actor, comedian, and director to U.S. shores, and he’ll be stopping in New York this summer! On Friday, 30th June 2023, the two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning star is taking over the Radio City Music Hall with his much-awaited stand-up set! The show will feature The Office star’s latest material and never-heard-before punchlines and quips. Don’t waste any time now. You should hurry and score your tickets now to this incredible stand-up comedy show featuring one of Britain’s greatest comedians, Ricky Gervais!

Ricky Gervais has been one of the most prolific and highly-influential personalities and comedians over the past several years. He rose to international prominence when he created, wrote, and starred in the popular television series, The Office. The series, which was a mockumentary of the day-to-day lives of office employees, earned Gervais the Best TV Comedy Actor Award at the British Comedy Awards in 2002. The show eventually had several local adaptations, including the American version of The Office, starring Steve Carell.

After wrapping up the award-winning show, Gervais moved to creating and starring in several more critically-acclaimed sitcoms, such as Extras, An Idiot Broad, and After Life. Gervais also won Best Comedy Performance at the Bafta Television Awards three years in a row from 2022 to 2004 for The Office and again in 2006 for Extras. In 2007, Gervais won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards for Extras.

Apart from starring in award-winning comedy series, Gervais is a phenomenal stand-up comedian. He pursued stand-up comedy during the late ‘90s and became a successful act after an unforgettable performance at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2003, Gervais started touring the U.K. By 2009, Gervais headlined the New York Comedy Festival. In 2017, Gervais released his first Netflix comedy special, Humanity, followed by an international tour. After the phenomenal comedy run, he released two more highly-acclaimed Netflix specials, SuperNature and Armageddon.

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Ricky Gervais has added more UK dates to his upcoming UK tour , Armageddon, after the first five shows sold out.

Gervais will begin touring the UK next week, with shows set to continue throughout the summer, before eventually coming to London for four dates in September.

The comedian and actor has also added more dates to his European and North American tours, which will see him perform in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, Barcelona, Oslo, and Berlin, among others.

Gervais expressed his excitement about the tour on Twitter, saying: “I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. I went to the local comprehensive at the end of my road. Life was tough, I guess.

“And yet, all I can remember is having a  laugh. Anyway, in May, I’m playing The Hollywood F****** Bowl.”

How to get tickets to Ricky Gervais’ tour

Tickets for the new dates on the Ricky Gervais tour will go on sale on Friday, March 31, at 10am.

They will be available to buy from LiveNation.com and fans can set a reminder for when the tickets go live.

Ricky Gervais UK tour dates

April 4/5 – Newcastle O2 City Hall (sold out)

April 19 – St Albans Arena (sold out)

April 24/25 – Manchester O2 Apollo (sold out)

May 22 – Cambridge Corn Exchange

May 25 – Leeds First Direct Arena

May 30 – Manchester O2 Apollo

June 14 – Cardiff International Arena

June 21 – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

July 20 – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

September 4 – Birmingham Utilita Arena

September 13/14/15/16 – London Palladium

October 6 – London OVO Arena Wembley

December 11/12 – Bristol Beacon

Gervais also revealed that the Armageddon tour will be available to watch on Netflix in 2024, once he finishes touring the world in 2023. His previous specials, SuperNature and Humanity, are currently available to stream.

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Ricky Gervais breaks world record with latest comedy tour

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The comedian now has a world record to add to his accolades

Ricky Gervais has bagged himself a world record with one of his stand-up performances on his recent comedy tour.

The comedian, who rose to stardom in the early 2000s for creating The Office and Extras, has spent most of 2023 taking his Armageddon tour across the world.

And one of his shows on the tour now officially holds the Guinness World Record for the  highest gross for a single stand-up performance  ever.

The stand-up’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in LA on May 6 this year grossed a whopping £1,410,000 ($1,790,206.50).

Along with Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, Gervais can now add a world record to his collection of accolades thanks to the history-making show in California.

Congratulations to @rickygervais – his Armageddon tour date at Hollywood Bowl in LA has the highest gross for a single stand-up performance 👏 https://t.co/Jg0q3Gtz4Z — Guinness World Records (@GWR) September 4, 2023

Speaking about the record, the British comic said: “As if packing out The Hollywood Bowl wasn’t enough, now Guinness World Records wants to put me in their big book. What a year!”

“Ricky Gervais is Britain’s biggest comedian. He sells out arenas around the world,” said Ian Coburn from Live Nation.  

His Armageddon tour will continue throughout the remainder of 2023, including three shows at London’s OVO Wembley Arena (6t October, 20th October, 13th December) and 11 nights at the London Palladium (13-16th and 28-30th September, 11-14th October). 

For those who can’t bag a ticket to one of the shows, Netflix has already secured the rights to the tour, so a special will be dropping on the platform once the tour has come to a close.

If you didn't manage to get tickets to see my record-breaking #Armageddon show live, (there were over 18 million ticket requests apparently), don't worry. Netflix have bought it, so you can watch it from the comfort of your home anywhere in the world after I've finished touring. pic.twitter.com/YtoeVvOCbk — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 13, 2023

When Gervais’ last show, SuperNature, landed on Netflix last year, it became one of the most-watched comedy specials that year. 

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Considered one of the most influential British comedians since Charlie Chaplin, (he received the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy 2016 BAFTA/LA) Ricky Gervais is the creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek, and the critically acclaimed Netflix hit After Life. 

Following the global success of his two previous Netflix stand-up specials ‘Humanity’ and ‘Supernature’, 2023 saw Gervais release a third special and his biggest to date, ‘Armageddon’. It won a Golden Globe, was the global number 1 most-watched show on Netflix, and followed a record-breaking international tour, selling out 85 arena dates across the world. Gervais’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing comedy gig ever. Gervais has won countless awards across his career, and enjoyed huge critical success for the outstanding three series of After Life. His hit series The Office is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries, with 13 remakes. Ricky has hosted the Golden Globes awards five times, in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2020

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Ricky Gervais has broken yet another record for his Armageddon comedy tour

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Ricky Gervais' Armageddon tour has broken yet another record.

The creator of The Office has spent the best part of the last year travelling the world, sharing his unique take on modern life with audiences far and wide:

And it'll come as no surprise to anyone that people have absolutely loved it.

Selling out shows wherever he's been, Gervais has performed to absolutely massive audiences.

Earlier this year, the former XFM presenter officially made it into the Guinness Book of Records following his show at The Hollywood Bowl, which raked in over $1.75 million (£1.41m). Not bad for a night's work, eh?

"Thank you Hollywood Bowl for one of the most surreal nights of my life," he said at the time. "What a venue. What a crowd."

Gervais continued: "I can’t even imagine what my mum would think about me playing the Hollywood Bowl.

"I hope she would be horrified by the language, tell me I looked fat, and be secretly proud."

Speaking previously about his entry into the iconic book, Gervais said it would have been a huge source of pride for his late mum.

"When I was little, I'd get the the Guinness Book of Records for Xmas every year," he wrote on social media.

"The whole family would read it. I think my mum would be prouder of me being in this book than anything else I've done."

But never one to rest on his laurels, Gervais recently added to that impressive accolade when he sold out his show at Toronto’s 20,000 capacity Scotiabank Arena on 10 August, the biggest of any British comic in Canada.

Speaking to LADbible about the latest feat, he said: "I think Armageddon is my favourite tour so far.

"To break the world record at the Hollywood Bowl was surreal, but breaking the record for Canada was very special too as I’m half Canadian. Why else would I have a daft surname like Gervais?"

And if he wasn't rolling in it already, Ricky's worldwide tour has so far made an incredible $32m (£26.4m) along the way, which isn't too shabby... just as long as some of that cash gets spent on his cat.

The tour is set for its final date at Wembley Arena in London on 13 December, ahead of the release of his next Netflix special.

So those of us who didn't manage to get tickets for one of his gigs can at least pretend we were there, right?

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Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and director Ricky Gervais comes to Bristol on his Armageddon World Tour.

Considered by some as most influential British comedian since Charlie Chaplin, Gervais is an award-winning stand-up with six international tours to date. His live show ‘Fame’ became the fastest selling UK stand-up show in history.

Gervais can most recently be seen in his Netflix special “SuperNature,” which premiered in May 2022. He also starred in the dark comedy “After Life,” which he created, directed and executive produced. The series premiered to rave reviews and fan response in 2019, and returned for an equally lauded second season in April 2020. The third and final season premiered in January 2022, also to high acclaim.

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Doors: 19:00 Sean McLoughlin (support): 19:30 Interval: 19:50-20:10 Ricky Gervais:  20:10 End: 21:20

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Location: Beacon Hall is located within Bristol Beacon. Head to Level 1 and follow signs to find the auditorium.

Address: Bristol Beacon, Trenchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR

Bicycle racks can be found in front of the main entrance on Trenchard Street, Colston Street, and on the city centre promenade. Find your nearest cycle routes using Cycle Planner .

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Trenchard Street multi-storey car park is 200m away, directly behind Bristol Beacon.

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Spaces for wheelchair users are in:

• row S in the centre of the rear Stalls (10 spaces)
• row Z in the left and right wings at the back of Lower Tier (4 spaces, 2 on each side),
• rows G/H on the left only at the back of Upper Tier (2 spaces)

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Assistance dogs and emotional support animals are allowed in the performance space. Seats in row F are most suitable. If you prefer, you can leave your animal with a member of staff during the performance.

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Ricky Gervais to debut new material at Dorset theatre

Comedian, actor and writer Ricky Gervais will debut new material at a 500-seat art deco theatre in Dorset next week.

Gervais, probably best known for the hit TV series The Office, is performing at the Regent Centre in Christchurch on Monday and Tuesday.

The work-in-progress show - Ricky Gervais and Friends - will see the star joined on stage by fellow comedians.

The venue said it was a "real honour" to be selected for the performances.

Tickets go on sale at 10:00 BST on Friday.

Theatre house and publicity manager Chris Cole described Gervais as "one of the most high-profile acts we've ever welcomed to the Regent".

Gervais - creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek and After Life - has enjoyed global success.

His 2023 stand-up show Armageddon won a Golden Globe and his performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest grossing comedy gig ever.

The Office, a mockumentary-style series starring Gervais as awkward office manager David Brent, is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries, with 13 remakes.

The Regent, a former cinema in Christchurch's High Street, dates back to the 1930s and is now run as a non-profit venue.

The comedian will also be performing his new material at London's Leicester Square Theatre and Watford Palace Theatre in Hertfordshire.

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David Walliams: My new comedy show with Matt Lucas will be 'edgy'

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David Walliams says the new comedy show he’s working on with Matt Lucas will be ‘edgy’, in the vein of controversial stand-ups such as  Dave Chappelle , Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais .

The pair have faced a backlash for some of their characters in Little Britain and Come Fly With Me – with scenes branded racist and offensive.

But speaking about their reunion project, Walliams suggested they hadn’t completely toned down their sense of humour for modern sensibilities.

‘It’s little bit edgy,’ he told Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch on their Therapy Crouch podcast . ‘There are jokes in it that, I mean, are in terrible taste – I mean not in terrible taste – but, you know, like, like, Little Britain was, like Come Fly With Me, like a lot of comedy is, which is, on the edge.

‘It's walking a line. Some people might be a little bit shocked.’

When asked what he meant by that, Walliams replied: ‘Do you watch Netflix comedy specials? Dave Chappelle , Jimmy Carr , Ricky Gervais ? They're all really way over the line, edgy.

‘They're very exciting and funny and shocking and all these things and the thing is, a lot of people – not everybody, but a lot of people – like it that way, don't they?’

He likened his comedy to Monty Python’s Life Of Brian and Mel Brookes’ The Producers, which were both considered offensive when they were released.

He added: ‘I’ve always liked things that are on the edge, but I do think it depends where you're doing it and what time you're doing it. I like edgy comics.  Jimmy Carr , I think is amazing. Frankie Boyle was incredible… I've always liked the rude stuff, and the dangerous stuff and the shocking stuff.’

While details of the new project and which platform it might be for are scant, Wailliams said he and Lucas wanted to create ‘entirely new characters’ rather than revive old favourites.

He added: ‘It's good fun writing together, it does make a change from writing on your own, which is quite lonely [compared to] the two of us bouncing off each other. 

‘And also, you know, Matt is such an amazing performer with all his voices and everything, it's brilliant to see. And he can key into a performance a lot quicker than I can, so we've had a lot of fun.’

Walliams also revealed he visited Lucas on the set of Gladiator 2 in Malta when he was on the island to host a film award ceremony.

‘I got to see Matt, and got to see the sets. It was very exciting, because a lot of things are CGI now, but Ridley Scott likes to build – I mean, there will be CGI in the movie – but it's like walking around ancient Rome. It was one of those surreal experiences…'

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‘the office’ follow-up gets peacock series order.

The new comedy series, set in the same universe as the beloved Steve Carell show, will be set at a dying Midwestern newspaper.

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The Office follow-up series has found a home.

Peacock on Wednesday announced a formal series order for the untitled series that is set in the same universe as NBC’s former Emmy-winning Steve Carell comedy.

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Here’s the formal logline: “The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters.” The untitled mockumentary, which arrives as ABC has found Emmy gold with Abbott Elementary , hails from the studio behind the former NBC favorite, Universal Television.

The comedy is executive produced by Daniels and Koman, alongside the creatives behind the U.K. original version of The Office, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, as well as Howard Klein, Ben Silverman and Banijay Americas (formerly Reveille). 

Details on roles that Impacciatore and Gleeson are playing are being kept under wraps given the huge expectations that come along with anything connected to The Office,  though sources say Daniels and Koman have been casting a wide net to find talent availabilities for the latter half of this year.

As  The Hollywood Reporter   previously reported ,  The Office  creator Daniels opened up a development room in early January to explore a new series that will be set in the same universe as the former NBC hit (itself a take on the British Gervais comedy). Daniels tapped Koman to co-create the project, which the prolific writer-producer does not consider to be a reboot of his 2005 mockumentary.

The new take on  The Office  comes at a busy time for Daniels, who recently scored a final season renewal for his Amazon comedy  Upload.  The prolific creator and producer is also reteaming with Mike Judge for a new season of his beloved animated comedy  King of the Hill  for Hulu. Together, the duo also have a wildly successful animation company with multiple series across a slew of streamers. Rumors surrounding a revival of The Office have swirled for years. In late 2017, NBC floated the idea of bringing The Office back with a fully fledged revival featuring Daniels at the helm and a new star taking over for Carell. Nothing came of that effort.

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