Extras, is a British sitcom about extras working in television, film, and theatre, the series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and was created, written, and directed by Ricky Dene Gervais, an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and musician, born on which date?
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Extras (TV series) Extras is a British sitcom about extras working in television, film, and theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and was created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also starred in it. "Extras" follows the lives of Andy Millman, his platonic friend Maggie Jacobs, and Andy's substandard agent and part-time retail employee Darren Lamb as Millman muddles through life as an anonymous "background performer" who eventually finds success as a B-level sitcom star.
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Ricky Gervais Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, singer, and musician.
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Richard Blackwood Richard Clifford Blackwood (born 15 May 1972 in Clapham, London) is a British "comedian", actor and rapper. He is currently playing Vincent Hubbard on the BBC soap opera "EastEnders".
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Hardware (TV series) Hardware is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 2003 to 2004. Starring Martin Freeman, it was written and created by Simon Nye, the creator of "Men Behaving Badly" and directed by Ben Kellett.
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Spencer Jones (actor) Spencer Jones is an English actor, comedian and writer. Jones has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and around the UK with his one-man show. He was co-creator and co-star of the CBBC comedy "Big Babies", and has a regular role in the sitcom "Upstart Crow".
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Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award.
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Jack Haig Jack Haig (born John Cecil Coppin, 5 January 1913 – 4 July 1989) was an English actor who specialised in supporting roles, mainly in Television comedy, he was best known for his role on sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! as Monsieur Roger LeClerc
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Roy Clarke Royston (Roy) Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms "Last of the Summer Wine", "Keeping Up Appearances", "Open All Hours" and its sequel series, "Still Open All Hours".
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Jay Simon Jay Simon (born 17 December 1966 in London) is a British stage, film/television and voice actor best known for screen roles including: the Flight Attendant in "The Wedding Date", Billy Hennessy in Jack Higgins' "Midnight Man" and Lionel Symon in Stephen Poliakoff's "Perfect Strangers".
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The Ricky Gervais Show The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy radio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington, later adapted into a podcast and a television series. Despite being named after the more famous Gervais, it mostly revolves around the life and ideas of Pilkington. The show started in August 2001 on Xfm, and aired in weekly periods for months at a time throughout 2002, 2003, 2004, and mid-2005. In November 2005, "Guardian Unlimited" offered the show as a podcast series of 12 shows. Throughout January and February 2006, the podcast was consistently ranked the number one podcast in the world; it appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Record for the world's most downloaded podcast, having gained an average of 261,670 downloads per episode during its first month. According to the BBC, by September 2006, the podcasts of the series had been downloaded nearly 18 million times. s of March 2011 , the podcast has been downloaded over 300 million times. The animated series adapted for television debuted for HBO and Channel 4 in 2010.
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Paul Merton Paul James Martin, known professionally as Paul Merton (born 9 July 1957) is an English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter.
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Tim Minchin Timothy David Minchin (born 7 October 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician and director. He was born in Northampton, England, to Australian parents, but raised in Perth, Western Australia.
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Daniel Maier Daniel Maier (born 1968, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a comedy writer and performer for television, radio, print and the stage.
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Graham Fellows Graham David Fellows (born 22 May 1959 in Sheffield, England) is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.
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Matthew Crosby Matthew Crosby (born 12 February 1980) is an English comedian and writer.
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Steve-O Stephen Gilchrist Glover (born June 13, 1974), better known by his stage name Steve-O, is a British-American actor, stunt performer, producer, comedian, author, musician, and clown. His entertainment career is mostly centered on his performance stunts on the American TV series "Jackass", its related movies, and its spin-off series "Wildboyz".
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Edwin Apps Edwin Apps (born in 14 May 1931) is an English television actor and writer. He appeared in many British and French television series and films, which include "Whack-O!", "I Thank a Fool", "Danger Man", "The Avengers", "Steptoe and Son", "My Wife Next Door", "Special Branch", "Katts and Dog", "", "Vatel", "Joséphine, ange gardien", "15 ans et demi" and others. He created and co-wrote sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters" (1966–71) with his wife, Pauline Devaney.
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Joe Wilkinson Joseph "Joe" Wilkinson (born 2 May 1975) is an English comedian, actor and writer.
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Philip Franks Philip Franks (born 2 February 1956) is an English actor and theatre director, known to the public chiefly for his roles in British television series.
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Chris Robson Chris Robson (born 2 September 1971) is an English stage, television and film actor. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.
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Daniel Rigby Daniel Rigby (born 6 December 1982) is an English actor and comedian.
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Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specialising in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.