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- Duration: 8:15
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- published: 26 Dec 2011
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- Duration: 4:59
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- Duration: 3:31
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- published: 30 Dec 2011
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YouTube Rewind 2011
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- Duration: 2:19
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Skydive Dubai - May 2011
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- Duration: 9:17
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2011年の日本の地震 分布図 Japan earthquakes 2011 Visualization map (2012-01-01)
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Productivity Future Vision (2011)
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- Duration: 89:33
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Hick (2011)
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30 May 2013
Syria has already received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is reported to have said in a Lebanese TV interview. Russia vowed to go ahead with sending the weapons soon after an EU decision not to renew an arms embargo on Syria. Mr Assad is also reported to have told Hezbollah-linked Al Manar TV that also said the tide of the war was turning ... Hezbollah ... Type ... Source ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
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31 May 2013
Although the death toll in this war has reached into the tens of thousands and uncollaborated reports indicate the government forces have started using chemical weapons against rebel controlled territories, almost nothing will justify the United States aiding either side in this war ... America must depend on the Israelis who are not ruling out an attack into Syria in order to destroy the missile batteries ... Suggested by the author. ... Tweet....(size: 6.3Kb)
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31 May 2013
Nigerian authorities have have arrested three Lebanese men in northern Nigeria on suspicion of being members of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah. Soldiers uncovered a hidden arms cache that authorities believe belonged to members of the Shia political party and armed group, the military and secret police said on Thursday ... All suspects reportedly admitted to being members of Hezbollah under questioning ... News....(size: 8.8Kb)
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30 May 2013
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30 May 2013
- Fawzi Koofi, an Afghan MP, was left out to die under the sun the day she was born, according to a story she recounts in her autobiography. She is now set to run in Afghanistan's presidential elections next year. . Among Westerners, she is regarded as a champion for Afghan women. In Afghanistan, her record is more mixed ... A widowed mother of two, Koofi's has earned her considerable Western media attention ... News....(size: 12.5Kb)
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01 Jun 2013
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01 Jun 2013
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01 Jun 2013
In this way, his own pursuit of a good life is inextricably bound to the fate of the city and to the similar pursuit carried out by other inhabitants of the city(Kleingeld & Brown, 2011) ... Any cosmopolitan expectations on a good Athenian extended only to concern for those foreigners who happen to reside in Athens(Kleingeld & Brown, 2011) ... 4) "the renewed interest in Hellenistic philosophy"(Kleingeld & Brown, 2011)....(size: 14.8Kb)
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01 Jun 2013
Indiaˈs economic growth was at 6.2 per cent for the 2011-12 fiscal ... Mining and quarrying sector contracted by 3.1 per cent during the fourth quarter of last fiscal, as against growth of 5.2 per cent in output in the same period of 2011-12 ... Farm sector output expanded by just 1.4 per cent in January-March this year, as against 2 per cent in the same quarter of 2011-12....(size: 2.8Kb)
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01 Jun 2013
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01 Jun 2013
MFB), a global branded marketer of intimate apparel, today reported fourth quarter 2012 net sales of $135.1 million, an increase of 8.5% over the fourth quarter of 2011. Full year 2012 sales totaled $600.3 million, a decrease of 1.0% when compared to fiscal 2011 ... Financial Results for Fourth Quarter 2012 versus Fourth Quarter 2011 ... Financial Results for Fiscal 2012 versus Fiscal 2011 ... 2011 ... 2011 ... 2011 ... 2011 ... 2011 ... 2011....(size: 40.1Kb)
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01 Jun 2013
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This article is about the year 2011. For the number (and other uses), see 2011 (number).
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1980s 1990s 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 2030s 2040s |
| Years: | 2008 2009 2010 – 2011 – 2012 2013 2014 |
| Gregorian calendar | 2011 MMXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2764 |
| Armenian calendar | 1460 ԹՎ ՌՆԿ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6761 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 167–168 |
| Bengali calendar | 1418 |
| Berber calendar | 2961 |
| British Regnal year | 59 Eliz. 2 – 60 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2555 |
| Burmese calendar | 1373 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7519–7520 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年十一月廿七日 (4647/4707-11-27) — to —
辛卯年十二月初七日(4648/4708-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 1727–1728 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2003–2004 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5771–5772 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2067–2068 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1933–1934 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5112–5113 |
| Holocene calendar | 12011 |
| Iranian calendar | 1389–1390 |
| Islamic calendar | 1432–1433 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 23 (平成23年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4344 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 100 民國100年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2554 |
| Unix time | 1293840000–1325375999 |
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2011 (MMXI) was a common year that started on a Saturday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations; the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 2nd of the 2010s.
The United Nations designated 2011 as the International Year of Forests and the International Year of Chemistry.[1] It was marked by a wave of revolutions in the Arab World known as the Arab Spring, including the beginnings of several unresolved protest movements and armed conflicts.
Events[link]
January[link]
- January 1 – Estonia officially adopts the euro currency and becomes the seventeenth eurozone country.[2]
- January 4 – Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known collectively as the Arab Spring.[3][4]
- January 9–15 – Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July.[5][6]
- January 11 – Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903.[7]
- January 14 – Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power.[8][9]
- January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia.[10][11][12]
February[link]
- February 11 – Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held.[13]
- February 22 - March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring,[14] causing the 2011 energy crisis.
March[link]
- March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude[15] earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.[16]
- March 15 – Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest.[17][18]
- March 17 – Arab Spring and the 2011 Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 10-0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians.[19]
- March 19 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi,[20] military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.[21]
April[link]
- April 11 – Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara with support from French forces thereby ending the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war.[22]
- April 29 – An estimated two billion people[23] watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
May[link]
- May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.[24]
- May 16 – The European Union agree to €78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund.[25]
- May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia.[26][27]
June[link]
- June 4 – Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate.
- June 5 – Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi.[28]
- June 12 – Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.[29]
July[link]
- July 7 – The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.[30]
- July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.[31]
- July 20
- Goran Hadžić is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.[32]
- The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years.[33]
- July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program.[34]
- July 22 – 77 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya.[35][36][37][38]
- July 31
- In Thailand over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at 1,440 billion baht (US$45 billion).[39] Some areas are still six feet under water, and many factory areas remained closed at the end of the year. 815[40] people are killed, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.[41]
- Arab Spring: Because of the uncertaintities associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there are believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country.[42][43][44] The total dead throughout Syria may never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000.
August[link]
- August 5
- NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons.
- Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.[45]
- August 20–28 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.[46][47][48]
September[link]
- September 5 – India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute.[49]
- September 10 – Zanzibar ferry sinking: The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people.[50]
- September 12 – Approximately 100 people die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi.[51]
- September 17 – Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October.[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]
- September 19 – With 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan.[61]
October[link]
- October 4
- 2011 Mogadishu bombing: 100[62] people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.[63]
- The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 207.[64][65]
- October 18 – Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks.[66][67][68]
- October 20
- Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city, and ending the war.[69][70][71][72]
- Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.[73]
- October 23 – A magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings.[74]
- October 27 – After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion.[75][76]
- October 31
- Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion.[77]
- UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member, following a vote in which 107 member states supported and 14 opposed.[78]
November[link]
- November 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars on August 5, 2012.[79][80][81]
December[link]
- December 15 – The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War.[82][83][84][85][86]
- December 16 – Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,268 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines with 85 people officially listed as missing.[87]
- December 29 – Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line, thereby skipping December 30, in order to align their time zones better with their main trading partners.[87]
Deaths[link]
Main article: Deaths in 2011
Further information: Category:2011 deaths
January[link]
- January 2
- Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
- Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)
- Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
- January 4
- Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi of Iran (b. 1966)
- Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
- January 15
- Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
- Susannah York, British actress (b. 1939)
- January 18 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
- January 21 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)
- January 24 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949)
- January 29 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)
- January 30 – John Barry, English composer (b. 1933)
February[link]
- February 3 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
- February 5 – Brian Jacques, British author (b. 1939)
- February 6
- Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
- Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)
- February 8 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
- February 14 – George Shearing, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)
- February 27 – Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
- February 28 – Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)
March[link]
- March 4
- Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
- Simon van der Meer, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925)
- March 5 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922)
- March 6 – Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (b. 1935)
- March 15 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969)
- March 17 – Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
- March 18 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat (b. 1925)
- March 21 – Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (b. 1952)
- March 23 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932)
- March 26
- Paul Baran, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926)
- Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (b. 1935)
- Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934)
- March 27 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
- March 29 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)
April[link]
- April 5
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925)
- Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)
- April 9 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
- April 14 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)
- April 19 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953)
- April 24 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926)
- April 30 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911)
May[link]
- May 2 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)
- May 3 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
- May 7
- Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
- Willard Boyle, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
- May 9 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 67th President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
- May 16 – Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (b. 1986)
- May 19 – Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926)
- May 20 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
- May 27
- Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
- Gil Scott-Heron, American poet and musician (b. 1949)
- May 29
- Sergei Bagapsh, Georgian-born politician (b. 1949)
- Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (b. 1931)
- May 30 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)
- May 31 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
June[link]
- June 3 – Jack Kevorkian, American euthanasia advocate (b. 1928)
- June 4 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (b. 1930)
- June 7 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
- June 9 – M.F. Hussain, Indian painter (b. 1915)
- June 10 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, British travel writer, scholar and soldier (b. 1915)
- June 18
- Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
- Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
- June 23 – Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
July[link]
- July 2 – Itamar Franco, 37th President of Brazil (b. 1930)
- July 4 – Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1912)
- July 5 – Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928)
- July 8 – Betty Ford, American feminist, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1918)
- July 10 – Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
- July 12 – Tom Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1925)
- July 17 – Juan Maria Bordaberry, 36th President of Uruguay (b. 1928)
- July 20 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922)
- July 23
- Robert Ettinger, American academic (b. 1918)
- Nguyen Cao Ky, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1930)
- Amy Winehouse, British singer (b. 1983)
- July 25 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
- July 28 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan army commander (b. 1944)
- July 30 – Mario Echandi Jiménez, 47th President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)
August[link]
- August 2 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American Nobel immunologist (b. 1920)
- August 3 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
- August 7
- Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937)
- Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born French Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
- August 14 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor and director (b. 1931)
- August 16 – Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (b. 1943)
- August 19 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean film director (b. 1941)
- August 22 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
- August 31 – Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
September[link]
- September 7
- Pavol Demitra, Slovakian hockey player (b. 1974)
- Stefan Liv, Polish-born Swedish hockey player (b. 1980)
- Ruslan Salei, Belarusian hockey player (b. 1974)
- Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian hockey player (b. 1974)
- September 10 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
- September 11 – Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (b. 1972)
- September 13 – Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (b. 1922)
- September 14 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
- September 19 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
- September 20 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (b. 1940)
- September 22 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923)
- September 25 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1940)
- September 27 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935)
- September 30
- Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
- Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist and cell biologist (b. 1943)
October[link]
- October 1 – Sven Tumba, Swedish hockey player (b. 1931)
- October 5
- Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur (b. 1955)
- Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
- October 6 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
- October 7 – Ramiz Alia, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
- October 12 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
- October 16 – Dan Wheldon, English racing car driver (b. 1978)
- October 20 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader (b. 1942)
- October 22 – Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1930)
- October 23
- Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate in chemistry (b. 1917)
- Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (b. 1987)
- October 24 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
- October 31 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
November[link]
- November 4 – Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader (b. 1948)
- November 5 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American Nobel physicist (b. 1915)
- November 7 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
- November 9 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)
- November 21 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer (b. 1926)
- November 22 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (b. 1931)
- November 25 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet-Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
- November 27
- Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927)
- Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
- November 28
- Ante Marković, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
- Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940)
December[link]
- December 1 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
- December 4 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
- December 5 – Violetta Villas, Polish singer (b. 1938)
- December 7 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
- December 8 – Sir Zelman Cowan, 19th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919)
- December 14 – Joe Simon, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1913)
- December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer (b. 1949)
- December 17
- Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
- Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (b. 1941)
- December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)
- December 24 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903)
- December 27
- Clifford Darling, 4th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1922)
- Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Chemistry – Dan Shechtman[88]
- Economics – Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent[89]
- Literature – Tomas Tranströmer[90]
- Peace – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakel Karman[91]
- Physics – Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess, and Brian P. Schmidt[92]
- Physiology or Medicine – Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Ralph M. Steinman[93]
Major religious holidays[link]
- January 6 – Christmas (celebrated by the Armenian Church)
- January 7 – Christmas (Eastern Christianity)
- February 1 – Imbolc, a cross-quarter day
- March 8 – Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), end of Carnival season
- March 9 – Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent)
- March 20 – Holi
- March 21 – (Northern hemisphere) Vernal equinox, also known as Ostara & Persian New Year
- April 18 – Passover begins at sundown
- April 24 – Easter (Western and Orthodox)
- May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
- May 17 – Vesak (Buddhism)
- June 7 – Shavuot begins
- August 1
- Ramadan begins (Islam)
- Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
- August 31 – Eid al-Fitr
- September 1 – Ganesh Chaturthi
- September 11 – Anant Chaturdashi
- September 23 – (Northern hemisphere) Autumnal equinox, also known as Mabon
- September 28 – Rosh Hashana begins at sundown
- October 2 to October 6 – Durga Puja
- October 7 – Yom Kippur begins at sundown
- October 26 – Diwali, a religious holiday in Hinduism
- November 6 – Eid al-Adha
- November 26 – Islamic New Year
- December 20 – Hanukkah begins at sundown
- December 25 – Christmas (Western Christianity)
In fiction[link]
Main article: Works of fiction set in 2011
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Jordan Roseman (aka DJ Earworm) is a San Francisco-based mashup artist who has achieved recognition for his technically sophisticated, songwriting oriented music and video mashups.[1][2] His annual “United State of Pop” mashups, short mixes featuring the top 25 songs of the year according to Billboard magazine, have reached the Top 100 for national radio play.[3]
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Biography[link]
Roseman was born into a big family of musicians and raised in eastern Iowa and Evanston, Illinois.[2][4] In his early life, he played piano and produced original electronic music on a computer, later majoring in music theory and computer science at the University of Illinois. He began using ACID recreationally in 2003. After encouragement from DJ Adrian at Club Bootie, Roseman created the moniker DJ Earworm ("earworm" referencing a song that repeats uncontrollably in one's mind) and began releasing mashups via a website.[5]
DJ Earworm has a unique mashup style that consists of a compositional, songwriting approach. He gradually layers samples on top of one another, matching keys and subtly altering melodies. His mashups often convey an entirely new meaning than the original material, such as a political message in “No More Gas”. He has been contrasted with mashup artist Girl Talk, who has a more DJ-oriented style.[6]
He is the author of Audio Mashup Construction Kit (Wiley, 2006), a how-to manual for creating mashups.[7]
At the 2008 IDEA conference, he revealed that he has made mashups using Ableton Live₨, and now DJs live with the same software.[8]
"United State of Pop" series[link]
2007[link]
Earworm's 2007 mashup, "United State of Pop” consisted of the top 25 songs of 2007 according to Billboard.[9] The song crossed beyond the online download market, reaching the Top 100 for national radio play in February 2008. Earworm is the first mashup artist to have a bootleg mashup enter Billboard’s charts.[10] As of August 12, 2011, the song has surpassed 4.5 million views on YouTube, and it has peaked at number 71 on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart.[citation needed]
Mix Includes:
- "Irreplaceable" - Beyoncé
- " Umbrella" - Rihanna feat. Jay-z
- "The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stefani feat. Akon
- "Big Girls Don't Cry" - Fergie
- "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" - T-Pain feat. Young Joc
- "Before He Cheats" - Carrie Underwood
- "Hey There Delilah" - Plain White T's
- " I Wanna Love You" - Akon feat. Snoop Dogg
- "Say It Right" - Nelly Furtado
- " Glamorous" - Fergie feat. Ludacris
- "Don't Matter" - Akon
- "Girlfriend" - Avril Lavigne
- "Makes Me Wonder" - Maroon 5
- "Party Like a Rockstar" - Shop Boyz
- "Smack That" - Akon feat. Eminem
- "This Is Why I'm Hot" - Mims
- "It's Not Over" - Daughtry
- "The Way I Are"- Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson
- "Fergalicious" - Fergie
- "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
- "Give It to Me" - Timbaland feat. Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado
- "What Goes Around... Comes Around" - Justin Timberlake
- "Cupid's Chokehold" - Gym Class Heroes feat. Patrick Stump
- "How to Save a Life" - The Fray
- "Home" - Daughtry
2008[link]
On December 25, 2008 he released another mashup called "United State of Pop 2008 (Viva la Pop)", prominently featuring Coldplay's song "Viva la Vida" as the backing track, and an intro by Natasha Bedingfield's Pocketful of Sunshine beat. The official YouTube video of the song had 200,000 views within the first two weeks of release. The mashup peaked at number 58 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart, and entered the Pop 100 chart.[11] As of December 13, 2011, the video has received over 9.5 million views on YouTube, and it has peaked at number 81 on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart.[citation needed]
Mix Includes:
- "Low" - Flo Rida feat. T-Pain
- "Bleeding Love" - Leona Lewis
- "No One" - Alicia Keys
- "Lollipop"- Lil Wayne feat. Static Major
- "Apologize" - One Republic feat. Timbaland
- "No Air" - Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown
- "Love Song" - Sara Bareilles
- "Love in This Club" - Usher feat.Young Jeezy
- "With You" - Chris Brown
- "Forever" - Chris Brown
- "Sexy Can I" - Ray J feat. Young Berg
- "Take a Bow" - Rihanna
- "Viva La Vida" - Coldplay
- "I Kissed a Girl" - Katy Perry
- "Whatever You Like" - T.I.
- "Disturbia" - Rihanna
- "Don't Stop the Music" - Rihanna
- "Pocketful of Sunshine" - Natasha Bedingfield
- "Kiss Kiss" - Chris Brown feat. T-pain
- " Closer" - Ne-Yo
- "Bubbly" - Colbie Caillat
- "Touch My Body" - Mariah Carey
- "4 Minutes" - Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
- "So What" - Pink
- "Paralyzer" - Finger Eleven
2009[link]
On December 27, 2009 he released a third year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame it on the Pop)" [12] The music video has reached over 40.2 million views as of December 13, 2011.
Mix Includes:
- "Boom Boom Pow" - The Black Eyed Peas
- "Poker Face" - Lady Gaga
- "Just Dance" - Lady Gaga feat.Colby O'Donis
- "I Gotta Feeling" - Black Eyed Peas
- "Love Story" - Taylor Swift
- "Right Round" - Flo Rida feat. Kesha
- "I'm Yours" - Jason Mraz
- "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" - Beyoncé
- " Heartless" - Kanye West
- "Gives You Hell" - All-American Rejects
- "You Belong with Me" - Taylor Swift
- "Dead and Gone" - T.I feat. Justin Timberlake
- "You Found Me" - The Fray
- "Use Somebody" - Kings of Leon
- "Knock You Down" - Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo
- "Blame It" - Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain
- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" - Pitbull
- "Live Your Life" - T.I feat. Rihanna
- "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em feat. Sammie
- "Down" - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
- "The Climb" - Miley Cyrus
- "Best I Ever Had" - Drake
- "My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
- " Halo" - Beyoncé
- "Hot n Cold" - Katy Perry
2010[link]
On December 28, 2010 he released the fourth year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2010 (Don't Stop the Pop), which includes the top 25 singles of 2010. The music video has reached over 13.6 million views as of December 5, 2011.
Mix Includes:
- "Tik Tok" - Kesha
- "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum
- "Hey, Soul Sister" - Train
- "California Gurls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg
- " OMG" - Usher feat. Will.I.Am
- "Airplanes" - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams
- "Love the Way You Lie" - Eminem feat. Rihanna
- "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga
- "Dynamite" - Taio Cruz
- "Break Your Heart" - Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris
- "Nothin' on You" - B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars
- "I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull
- "BedRock" - Young Money Entertainment feat. Lloyd
- "In My Head" - Jason Derülo
- "Rude Boy" - Rihanna
- "Telephone" - Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce
- "Teenage Dream" - Katy Perry
- "Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars
- "Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner
- "Imma Be" - The Black Eyed Peas
- "Empire State of Mind" - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
- "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" - Usher feat. Pitbull
- "Billionaire" - Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars
- "Not Afraid" - Eminem
- "Replay" - Iyaz
2011[link]
The fifth year-end mashup, "United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)" was released on December 25 2011. This was the first time this was not based on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart, but on the weekly charts throughout the year, which "ensures that all the late-breaking hits are included in the 2011 mix".[13] It used a combination of Rihanna's "We Found Love" , Katy Perry's Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) , Lady Gaga's Born This Way, and Britney Spears' "Till The World Ends" as the backing track. The music video for "United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)"[14] was viewed over 1.4 million times within the first day of release on YouTube.
The mashup included the following songs:
- "Rolling In The Deep" - Adele
- "Someone Like You" - Adele
- "Just Can't Get Enough" - Black Eyed Peas
- "Grenade" - Bruno Mars
- "The Lazy Song" - Bruno Mars
- "Till The World Ends" - Britney Spears
- "F*** You!" - Cee Lo Green
- "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" - Enrique Iglesias
- "Pumped Up Kicks" - Foster the People
- "On The Floor" - Jennifer Lopez
- "Down On Me" - Jeremih feat. 50 Cent
- "Firework" - Katy Perry
- "E.T." - Katy Perry
- "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" - Katy Perry
- "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga
- "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO
- "Sexy and I Know It" - LMFAO
- "The Show Goes On" - Lupe Fiasco
- "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5
- "Super Bass" - Nicki Minaj
- "Good Life" - OneRepublic
- "Raise Your Glass" - Pink
- "Give Me Everything" - Pitbull
- "S&M" - Rihanna
- "We Found Love" - Rihanna
Earworm states that "It doesn't match Billboard's U.S. year-end list, since I'm basing it off of the weekly lists this year in order to more reflect what was actually popular during 2011. Because of the Billboard's early cut off date and their emphasis on chart longevity, songs that are released after August are either split between the two years tor moved to the next year. I also don't want a track appearing two years in a row just because it happened to be peaking right at the cutoff. From my perspective, a song for a aveyear-end mix belongs in the year it will be remembered from, not the year it ended its run. For instance, "We Found Love", which has been #1 for the last 8 weeks of the year, is nowhere to be seen in Billboard's Top 25, and may not make it next year either due to the bias of the cut-off date. As a bonus I am able to spend more time on the mixes and more fully realize them."
Official Mashups[link]
While most mashup artists must rely on bootleg samples and public releases to make mashups, Earworm has been contacted by prominent musicians to make mashups from their source material. DJ Earworm was given multitracks by Annie Lennox to create a unique mashup piece called "Backwards/Forwards," which contains nine of her songs.
On September 12, 2009, Earworm released an official Sean Kingston mashup called "A Beautiful Mashup."
Like OMG, Baby[link]
"Like OMG, Baby", released in the summer of 2010, was shown as part of a concert at Wembley Stadium in London for Capital FM's Summertime Ball, where all fifteen of the featured artists performed. The mashup is Earworm's fourth song to chart on the CHR/Top 40 Mediabase radio chart, where it peaked at number 83. As of August 8, 2011, the video has received 10.2 million views and counting on YouTube, making it by far his most popular non-United State of Pop mashup and surpassing the 2008 year-end video. In 2011 the song was honored with two Sony Radio Academy Awards.[15] Here is the list of songs used:
- Alexandra Burke - All Night Long
- Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love
- Chipmunk feat. Esmee Denters - Until You Were Gone
- Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
- Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
- Jason Derulo - In My Head
- JLS - One Shot
- Justin Bieber - Baby
- Ke$ha - Tik Tok
- Pixie Lott - Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)
- Rihanna - Rude Boy
- Scouting For Girls - This Ain't a Love Song
- Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
- Usher feat. Will.I.Am - OMG
- The Wanted - All Time Low
Free At Night[link]
On December 10, 2010, Earworm released a Nelly Furtado mashup titled "Free At Night", composed of 13 songs from Furtado's recent greatest hits album, The Best of Nelly Furtado. The music video has over 541,000 views as of August 8, 2011. Here is the list of songs used:
- I'm Like a Bird
- Turn Off the Light
- Powerless (Say What You Want)
- Try
- Força
- Promiscuous
- Maneater
- Say It Right
- All Good Things (Come To An End)
- Girlfriend in This City
- Night Is Young
- Stars
- Manos al Aire
The Only Time is Tonight[link]
To promote YouTube's Android app, Earworm released a mashup called "The Only Time is Tonight". The mashup heavily used Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" instrumental and vocals. It was released on May 31, 2011 on YouTube's official account.[16] On August 22, 2011, the video reached over 1.5 million views. Recently the official video for "The Only Time is Tonight" has been made unavailable for viewing on YouTube and DJ Earworm's website, although the audio for the mashup is available for download on djearworm.com [17] and unofficial copies of the original video are still posted on YouTube. [18] Here is the list of songs used:
- Avril Lavigne - What the Hell
- Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)
- Chris Brown - Yeah 3x
- Enrique Iglesias - Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)
- Kesha - We R Who We R
- Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World)
- Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
Party on the Floor[link]
Following up the previous year's "Like OMG, Baby", Earworm released another UK-oriented summertime mashup on June 12, 2011. It is entitled, "Party On The Floor". As of March 17, 2012, the music video has reached over 7 million views. This mash up was used at the start of the Capital FM summertime ball 2011 at Wembley Stadium. Here are the songs used:
- Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - On the Floor
- Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude
- Jessie J feat. B.o.B.- Price Tag
- LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem
- Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath
- Example - Changed the Way You Kiss Me
- Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me
- Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster
- The Wanted - Glad You Came
- Far East Movement feat. The Cataracs & Dev - Like A G6
- JLS feat. Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut
- JLS - Love You More
- Katy B - Katy on a Mission
- Katy B feat. Ms. Dynamite - Lights On
- Cee-Lo Green - Forget You
- Cee-Lo Green feat. Wiz Khalifa - Bright Lights, Bigger City
- Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I Like It
- Wretch 32 - Traktor
- Mann - Buzzin'
References[link]
- ^ Linda Haywood. DJ Earworm “Working Feverishly” to Complete United State of Pop 2010 The Global Herald.
- ^ a b Jason Lipshutz. DJ Earworm: Pop Music Had 'More Energy' in 2010 Billboard.
- ^ 'United State of Pop' is in the top 100 in the Mediabase radio play charts.Mediabase. Accessed 18 February 2008.
- ^ Roseman, Jordan (2006), Audio Mashup Construction Kit: ExtremeTech, Wiley, p. 9, ISBN 0-471-77195-3
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- ^ Hardesty L. Bootleg Battle Lines. Technology Review. He also mashed up some of Optimum's Triple Play commercials.
- ^ Ressel, David. Mixing musical tracks goes mainstream. Columbia News Service. 16 Jan. 2007.
- ^ Video from IDEA '08: DJ Earworm
- ^ Party, Ben. Mashup Roundup: DJ Earworm Combines 25 Biggest Songs of the Year. Mother Jones. 3 Jan. 2008.
- ^ 'United State of Pop' is in the top 100 in the Mediabase radio play charts. Mediabase. Accessed 18 December 31 2007.
- ^ Trust, G.'Best of 2009: Part 1. Billboard.
- ^ Greenblatt, Leah. The ultimate 2009 mash-up: This year's biggest pop hits in under five minutes. Entertainment Weekly. 28 Dec. 2009.
- ^ "United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)". DJ Earworm. http://djearworm.com/united-state-of-pop-world-go-boom.htm. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "Official Video for United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)". DJ Ear worm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ail7D_k0s9w. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
- ^ http://www.radioawards.org/winners/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?=HDPUtwSm1Ac
- ^ http://djearworm.com/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=youtube+only+time+is+tonight&aq=f
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Damien Gareth Walters (born 6 April 1982) is a British former gymnast from Derbyshire who specialises in tumbling.
Career[link]
Walters participated in four Trampoline World Championships. In 2003 he was one of four members of the British team winning the World Title in the team competition.[1][2] In the years 2001 and 2007 he ranked 4th with the team. He also finished 5th in singles competition in 2003 and 2005. In addition he won the European Title with the British team in 2006, just after he was placed 2nd in team and 8th in the singles competition two years earlier.[3]
Since 2007 Walters has not participated in further tournaments and has focused on his other projects, mainly his career as a stuntman. He also appeared, however, in a number of television commercials and has performed in acrobatic shows.[4]
Walters has had the role of stunt double or stunt performer in the films: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Ninja Assassin, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Eagle, I Am Number Four, Blitz, Colombiana, and Captain America: The First Avenger. In Kick-Ass, he was credited as both a stunt double and assistant fight coordinator. He will also appear in the films Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and 47 Ronin.[5]
In 2010 he won the Taurus World Stunt Awards for "Best Fight" in the film Ninja Assassin.[6]
Walters also has a passion for Parkour and Freerunning where he incorporates his gymnastic skills as well as his stuntman abilities. On YouTube he is one of the most watched Freerunners, with his videos having a total of over 60 million views.[7]
Currently Walters is running his own gym Derby City Gymnastics Club, Derby and shooting films.[5]
References[link]
- ^ "About BG". British Gymnastics. http://www.british-gymnastics.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=32. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- ^ Results of the 23rd Trampoline World Championships Hannover 2003 (page 46)
- ^ "UEG - European Union of Gymnastics". http://www.ueg-gymnastics.com/commstore/commstore2.pl/462d6a01f66fdbcc/en/statistics.html?k=234&block_id=head,P3,content&P1=236284&P2=52&P3=statistics&P4=6&P10=52&P9=234.
- ^ Window Cleaning with Damien Walters on YouTube
- ^ a b Damien Walters at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Damien Walters wins The 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award". British Gymnastics. http://www.british-gymnastics.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1379&Itemid=166. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- ^ "YouTube - damienwalters's Channel". http://www.youtube.com/user/damienwalters.
Further reading[link]
- Staff (3 September 2005), "Damien tumbles to glory", Derby Evening Telegraph: p. 37, Factiva DEBTEL0020050904e19300019
- Hill, Ed (14 April 2009), "City gymnast tumbles into career as movie stuntman", Derby Evening Telegraph: p. 3, Factiva DEBTEL0020090415e54e0002p, http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/City-gymnast-tumbles-career-movie-stuntman/story-11640625-detail/story.html, retrieved 2 June 2011
- Hill, Ed (18 December 2009), "Damien tumbles on to big hit", Derby Evening Telegraph: p. 13, Factiva DEBTEL0020091219e5ci0001v, http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Damien-tumbles-big-hit/story-11562349-detail/story.html, retrieved 2 June 2011
- Hill, Ed (5 January 2011), "Will Smith tells city stuntman 'make my son flipping good'", Derby Evening Telegraph: p. 3, Factiva DEBTEL0020110105e7150001s, http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Smith-tells-city-stuntman-make-son-flipping-good/story-11599347-detail/story.html, retrieved 2 June 2011
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| Birth name | Ricky Gervais |
| Born | (1961-06-25) 25 June 1961 (age 51) Reading, Berkshire, England |
| Medium | Stand up, television, film, books, radio |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Genres | Cringe comedy, insult comedy, observational comedy |
| Influences | Steve Coogan, Chris Langham, Garry Shandling, Jerry Sadowitz, Larry David, Woody Allen, Laurel and Hardy, Christopher Guest, Stewart Lee, Groucho Marx[1] |
| Domestic partner(s) | Jane Fallon (1982–present) |
| Notable works and roles | The Office Extras An Idiot Abroad |
| Website | rickygervais.com |
Ricky Dene Gervais (/dʒərˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter.
Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009,[2] The Ricky Gervais Show.
He has won multiple awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic.[3] In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people.[4]
In 2010 Gervais became the first British person to host the Golden Globe Awards in 14 years; he returned to host in 2011 and again in 2012.[5]
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Early life[link]
Gervais, along with siblings Larry (born 1945), Marsha (born 1948), and Bob (born 1950),[6] was born and raised in Whitley, Berkshire. His father, Lawrence Raymond "Jerry" Gervais (1919–2002), a Franco-Ontarian, emigrated while on foreign duty during the Second World War from London, Ontario, Canada. Jerry Gervais met Eva Sophia House (1925–2000),[7][8] during a blackout,[9] and they settled in Whitley. She died, aged 74, in 2000, of lung cancer.[10]
During Xfm London's The Ricky Gervais Show and in further newspaper interviews with The Independent, Gervais noted that he believes his birth was unplanned due to the age difference between his oldest sibling and himself. During one interview with The Independent, Gervais tells the author that even his mother admitted his birth was unplanned.[11] He has claimed that his father was "drunk when he filled in the birth certificate", leading to the unusual spelling of his middle name.[12] Gervais has stated that his upbringing and childhood were stable and trauma-free, with a high level of honesty and openness between his family members. He claims that his family, "much like The Waltons", made fun of each other regularly.[13]
Gervais attended Whitley Park Infants and Junior Schools and received his secondary education at Ashmead Comprehensive School, before moving on to University College London in 1979.[14] He arrived to study biology but changed to philosophy after only two weeks,[15] and earned an upper second-class honours degree in the subject.[16] During his time at UCL, he met Jane Fallon, with whom he has been in a relationship since 1982.[17]
Music[link]
In 1983, during his final year as a student at UCL (University College London), Gervais and Bill Macrae formed the New Wave pop duo, Seona Dancing. They were signed by London Records, which released two of their singles—"More to Lose" and "Bitter Heart". The singles failed to break the top 40, with "More to Lose" charting at #117 and "Bitter Heart" peaking at #70 on the UK Singles Chart.[18] Despite not being successful in the UK, Seona Dancing did manage to score a hit in the Philippines with "More to Lose". According to the 20 December 2003 broadcast of the Ricky Gervais Show, Gervais later had a band called the Sacred Hearts, which Ian Camfield described as Gervais's Bon Jovi phase.[citation needed]
Radio[link]
Gervais later worked as an assistant events manager for the University of London Union (ULU),[19] where he continued working until he took a similar job as "head of speech" at Xfm London.[20]
Needing an assistant, Gervais interviewed the first person whose curriculum vitae he saw. The CV belonged to Stephen Merchant. During the interview at a local pub, Merchant agreed to do "all the boring stuff" because of his experience in media studies while Gervais "mess[ed] around".[21] In 1998 Gervais was made redundant[citation needed] when the station was taken over by the Capital Radio group.
Gervais was music adviser for the BBC drama This Life, which was being produced by his girlfriend, Jane Fallon. He and Merchant also contributed sketches to BBC Radio 1's The Breezeblock in 1999 and 2000.
After the first series of The Office, Gervais and Merchant returned to Xfm in November 2001 for a Saturday radio show. The show ran intermittently until January 2004 with breaks of 1–3 months between new shows. This was when the pair first worked with Karl Pilkington, who produced the shows and later collaborated with them on their series of podcasts.
Podcast[link]
Main article: The Ricky Gervais Show
See also: List of The Ricky Gervais Show episodes
On 5 December 2005 Guardian Unlimited began offering free weekly podcasts featuring Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington. 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.[2] On 20 February 2006, after the conclusion of the twelve-podcast series, it was announced that all future episodes would be available from Audible.com at a "nominal fee" (later, these had to be called audiobooks in accordance with iTunes policy). Two more series—-each with six podcasts—-were released between February and September 2006.
In late 2006 three more free podcasts were released. Together called "The Podfather Trilogy", they debuted individually at Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. These three were known by Ricky and Steve as "The Fourth season". In October 2007 another free full-length podcast was released through iTunes; this podcast was originally given out for free during a performance of Gervais's Fame tour in London. On 25 November 2007 Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington released another free full-length podcast, which lasted just over an hour.
In August 2008 Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington recorded their fifth season of audiobooks, totalling 4 chapters, which were released on 16 September 2008. These audiobooks were described as the 'guide to...' series, covering several topics. As of May 2011, there are 12 "Guides" in total: Medicine, Natural History, Arts, Philosophy, The English, Society, Law & Order, The Future, The Human Body, The Earth, The World Cup 2010 & Comic Relief. The conversations typically begin on topic, but constantly stray away from the topic at hand.
Television[link]
Gervais has contributed to the BAFTA-winning The Sketch Show (ITV), penning several sketches. His mainstream-TV debut came in September 1998 as part of Channel 4's "Comedy Lab" series of pilots. His one-off show Golden Years focused on a David Bowie–obsessed character called Clive Meadows. Gervais then came to much wider national attention with an obnoxious, cutting persona featured in a topical slot that replaced Ali G's segments on the satirical Channel 4 comedy programme The 11 O'Clock Show in early 1999, in which his character used as many expletives as was possible and produced an inordinate amount of politically incorrect statements. Among the other regular featured comedians on the show was Mackenzie Crook, later a co-star of The Office. Two years later, Gervais went on to present his own comedy chat show for Channel 4 called Meet Ricky Gervais; it was poorly received and has since been mocked by Gervais himself. The Independent newspaper has described Gervais as "obsessed by his own celebrity", but adds, "Who wouldn't want to be Peter Lawford in a comedy Rat Pack?" in reference to Ricky Gervais Meets...; the article, however, also describes him as "a very funny man" who "created one of the great sitcoms".[22] The Guardian's Chris Tryhorn explained the "few gripes" he had with Extras, "particularly in the second series". "You can forgive Gervais a certain arrogance after the success of The Office, but..." He remarks on the confused tone of the series, taking in the clash between the broad comedy of characters Barry (Shaun Williamson) and Darren (Stephen Merchant), and the apparent parody of this style with When The Whistle Blows, and "given their total indulgence of Gervais, the BBC is portrayed as interfering, its comedy department run by a rather crudely stereotyped gay couple".[23]
Throughout this time, Gervais also wrote for the BBC sketch show Bruiser and The Jim Tavare Show, and he had a cameo role in Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes's sitcom, Spaced, as Dave. Pegg later joked that Dave was a younger David Brent and that he and Hynes were the real minds behind The Office. Gervais also appeared in a few of Channel 4's 'Top 100...' list programmes, and he voiced the character of Penguin in Robbie the Reindeer's Legend of the Lost Tribe. His voice was redubbed for the US market.
On 5 January 2006 he interviewed Larry David in a one-off special, Ricky Gervais Meets... Larry David. On 25 and 26 December of the same year Channel 4 aired similar specials in which he interviewed the actor/comedian Christopher Guest and comedian Garry Shandling. There are no plans for further episodes of Meets..., although editions with John Cleese and Matt Groening were recorded in 2006 for broadcast in 2007. A source claimed, "The Shandling experience put him off for good".[24]
Gervais guest-starred in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", which aired on 26 March 2006 in the United States, on 23 April 2006 on satellite station Sky One in the United Kingdom (first appearing on terrestrial television in 2010), and on 18 July 2006 in Australia. He is the only British comic to write and star in a Simpsons episode. The episode was the highest rated in Sky One's history, arguably because of its extensive promotion, which revolved around the angle that Gervais was the episode's sole writer (and the first guest star on the show to also receive a writing credit for the episode of his appearance). Gervais clarified the extent of his input in a joint interview (with Christopher Guest) for Dazed and Confused magazine (January 2006): "No, all I did was put down a load of observations on an email and they made it look like a Simpsons script. I'm going to get the credit, but I think everyone in the industry knows it was a joint effort". Asked in a separate interview about how his idea for the episode (in which Homer swaps Marge on a game show) came about, Gervais replied:
I've always been fascinated with reality game shows but I think it was my girlfriend's idea. We watch Celebrity Big Brother at the moment, we watch I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here... we watch all those reality TV shows — The Office came out of those docu-soaps".[25]
Gervais, a longstanding Simpsons fan, presented a segment to mark the show's 20th anniversary on BBC Two's The Culture Show on 16 June 2007. Recently on Gervais's blog it was announced that he will be returning to The Simpsons and will feature him doing a skit based on his recent controversial performance at the 2011 Golden Globes. It is unknown if he will be writing the episode this time around.
Gervais has also guest-starred on Alias (appearing in the third-season episode "Façade") as Daniel Ryan, a former Royal Navy bomb-disposal specialist turned rogue Irish Republican Army bomb-maker. He has said about the appearance, "I did an episode of Alias, and I can't watch it. Me being serious. I can't watch it".
Gervais made a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live in a Digital Short during which he claims that The Office was adapted from a Japanese programme of the same name (with Steve Carell reprising his role as Michael Scott). The sketch re-creates scenes from the American and British pilot episode with Japanese elements (although in an exaggerated way). "It's funny", Gervais laughs at the end, "because it's racist".
In January 2009, Gervais was interviewed by James Lipton for Season 15 of BravoTV's Inside the Actors Studio.
In January 2010, he hosted the 67th Golden Globe Awards, making him the first master of ceremonies since 1995. He stated:
"I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don't turn down."[26]
His performance as host received a mixed response with positive reviews from the New York Daily News and the Associated Press, but also some negative comments from industry bible, and The Hollywood Reporter.[27][28] He returned to host the show again in 2011 and 2012, and his performance was more warmly received by critics.
Gervais was a guest judge on Jerry Seinfeld's NBC show The Marriage Ref alongside Larry David and Madonna.[29] On 1 April 2010, Gervais made his first appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC.
In June 2010, it was announced that Gervais had been cast in the upcoming Season 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm playing himself.[30]
As of April 2011, he has made 18 guest appearances on Late Show with David Letterman on the CBS network.
[edit] The Office
Main article: The Office (UK TV series)
In August 1999, while on a BBC production course, Stephen Merchant had to make his own short film. He chose to make a docu-soap parody, set in an office. This sketch later formed the basis of the interview episode.[31] With help from Ash Atalla, Merchant passed this tape on to the BBC's Head of Entertainment Paul Jackson at the Edinburgh Fringe, who then passed it on to Head of Comedy Jon Plowman, who eventually commissioned a full-pilot script from Merchant and Gervais.
The first six-episode series of The Office aired in the UK in July and August 2001 to little fanfare or attention.[32] Word-of-mouth, repeats, and DVDs helped spread the word, building up huge momentum and anticipation for the second series, also comprising six episodes, in September 2002.[33] The second series topped the BBC Two ratings, and the show then switched to BBC One in December 2003 for its final two special episodes.
The Office has since been remade for audiences in Sweden, France, Germany, Quebec, Brazil, and the United States. Gervais and Merchant are producers of the American version, and they also co-wrote the episode "The Convict" for the show's third season. The original UK version is currently airing on Adult Swim on Fridays, and prior to the show's airing, Gervais appears as himself talking about the episode that will air. In one of those segments Gervais claimed the episode "Training" to be his favourite.
[edit] Extras
Main article: Extras
Extras had its debut on the BBC on 21 July 2005; it received its premiere on HBO in the United States in September 2005. Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the sitcom ran for twelve episodes and starred Gervais as Andy Millman, a background artist. Millman is more self-aware and intentionally humorous than Gervais's The Office character David Brent.
Guest stars on the first series of Extras include Ross Kemp, Les Dennis, Patrick Stewart, Vinnie Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet, and Francesca Martinez. A second series began on 14 September 2006 in the UK and featured appearances by Daniel Radcliffe, Dame Diana Rigg, Orlando Bloom, Sir Ian McKellen, Chris Martin, Keith Chegwin, Robert Lindsay, Warwick Davis, Ronnie Corbett, Stephen Fry, Richard Briers, Patricia Potter, Sophia Myles, Moira Stuart, David Bowie, Kate Winslet, Robert De Niro, and Jonathan Ross.
A Christmas special of Extras aired on 27 December 2007 in the UK and on 16 December 2007 in the US, featuring guest appearances by George Michael, Clive Owen, Gordon Ramsay, Jonathan Ross, and David Tennant.
On 10 June 2006, Gervais and Merchant were seen in a specially-filmed promotional sketch for the second series, in the middle of BBC One's World Cup football coverage. This time Gervais did not perform his famous dance. Instead, Merchant did a take-off of the Crouch Dance, recently popularised by England striker Peter Crouch.
Some have suggested that Gervais is influenced by Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Larry Sanders Show in making Extras, particularly in the format of celebrities making fools of themselves or subverting their public personas,[23] and in the Gervais joke of someone making inappropriate remarks in front of a member of a minority. He has interviewed both Larry David and Garry Shandling, creators of these shows, on Ricky Gervais Meets....
Extras was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy on 14 January 2008. Gervais also won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
In February 2007, British ventriloquist Keith Harris refused an invitation to appear on the second series of Extras, claiming that Gervais "wanted me to be a racist bigot" and describing the script as "pure filth".[34] When asked about Harris's refusal on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Gervais claimed that Harris simply "didn't get it".[35] Keith Chegwin, who assumed the role offered to Harris, said "the people who didn't get it probably think Johnny Depp really is a pirate."[36]
[edit] The Ricky Gervais Show (animated series)
Main article: The Ricky Gervais Show (animated series)
The Ricky Gervais Show is an animated TV show that debuted on US cable network HBO on 19 February 2010.[37][38] In the UK, the first season began airing on 23 April 2010 on Channel 4. The show was developed using original podcast recordings from The Ricky Gervais Show starring Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. After receiving a loyal and enthusiastic following in the US, Cable channel HBO recommissioned the show for a second season, which aired in 2011,[39] and a third series which started airing in April 2012.
The original audio show was broadcast in November 2001 on radio station 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.[40] 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.[41][42] By September 2006, according to the BBC, the podcasts of the series had been downloaded "nearly 8 million" times.[43]
[edit] Life's Too Short
Main article: Life's Too Short
In April 2010, it was announced that Gervais and Stephen Merchant would be writing a new show, an observational sitcom series called Life's Too Short, from an idea by Warwick Davis. It is described by Gervais as being about "the life of a showbiz dwarf" and as "a cross between Extras and Curb Your Enthusiasm and One Foot in the Grave but with a dwarf. That is out and out funny."[44]
The show stars actor Warwick Davis playing a fictionalised version of himself, as well as Gervais and Merchant in cameo roles as themselves.[45][46] The show began airing on BBC Two on 10 November 2011.[47][48] Premium cable channel HBO, who co-produced the series with the BBC, have the US rights and began airing the series on 19 February 2012.[49][50]
[edit] Derek
Main article: Derek (TV series)
In November 2011, Gervais filmed in London a 35-minute pilot episode for a potential comedy-drama series called Derek, which aired on Channel 4 on 12 April 2012.[51][52] The pilot is solely written and directed by Gervais and features him in the title role of Derek Noakes, a 49-year-old retirement home worker, who "loves animals, Rolf Harris, Jesus, Deal or No Deal, Million Pound Drop and Britain's Got Talent - but his main hobby is autograph hunting". The character first appeared as an aspiring comedian who loves animals and still lives with his mother in a 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe sketch.[53][54] Gervais says Derek was "an excuse to see the world differently."[55] Gervais's co-host Karl Pilkington makes his acting debut as Derek's friend and caretaker/janitor Dougie who also works in the retirement home. British comedian Kerry Godliman plays Derek's best friend Hannah and David Earl plays Kev. The episode is produced by Charlie Hanson.[56]
Gervais said that the series is about "kindness [being] more important than anything else". He added "It’s about the forgotten — everyone’s forgotten. It’s all these arbitrary people who didn’t know each other, and they’re in there now because they’re in the last years of their life. And it’s about the people who help them, who themselves are losers and have their own problems. It’s about a bunch of people with nothing, but making the most of it, and they’re together."[57] Gervais said he wanted to "do normal people with normal problems again" after exploring fame in his previous series and "get close to real emotion".[55] He chose to set the sitcom in a retirement home after he watched Secret Millionaire - "It was always these people with huge problems who were helping other people. I thought about having Derek help old people because no one cares about old people in this country... I think it's perfect for now."[58]
The pilot caused controversy even before its broadcast as some critics felt that Gervais was mocking disabled people. Gervais responded: "I’ve never thought of him as disabled. He’s not that bright but neither are Kev or Dougie. He’s cleverer than Baldrick and Father Dougal and he certainly hasn’t got as big a problem as Mr. Bean. When portraying someone with disabilities I usually get someone with that disability to play them."[55] On 9 May 2012, Channel 4 announced that it had commissioned a full series of Derek to air in early 2013.[59]
Stand-up comedy[link]
Gervais made some attempts at stand-up in the late 1990s, but his first successful show took place at the Cafe Royal, as part of the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Titled Rubbernecker, the show also featured Jimmy Carr, Robin Ince, and Stephen Merchant.
Gervais later toured the UK in 2003 with his stand-up show Animals. The Politics tour followed a year later. Both of these shows were recorded for release on DVD and television broadcast. The third part of the themed live trilogy, Fame, took place in 2007. It started in Glasgow in January and ended in Sheffield in April. Blackpool reported selling out of tickets within 45 minutes of them going on sale.[60] More dates were added.
Newsnight Review's panel saw Animals during its Bloomsbury run and covered it in January 2003. They were not favourable, with Private Eye editor Ian Hislop being the most explicit in his criticism.[61] After this, Gervais closed each show by calling Hislop an "ugly little pug-faced cunt". Further coverage on Newsnight Review has been overwhelmingly favourable, with the panelists playing themselves in promos for the second series of Extras. Panel regulars Germaine Greer, Mark Kermode, and Mark Lawson also appeared as themselves reviewing When The Whistle Blows in a series episode. Critic Mark Lawson is a great admirer of Gervais and Merchant, having interviewed them extensively for television, print Front Row, and the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Fame was the subject of some controversy in January 2007 when Gervais told a story, ostensibly about how people will do anything to become famous, to a Scottish audience.[62] The story referred to a question asked of Gervais five years earlier by a reporter: what could someone do to become famous like you? To which he replied, "Go out and kill a prostitute". He followed up with the punch line, "I won't do that bit in Ipswich", referring to the December 2006 murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich. The joke drew criticism from the father of victim Tania Nicol: "These days, they want to make a joke out of anything. I feel he's just being uncaring, quite honestly". Gervais defended himself: "I do want people to know that that happened five years ago and is not related to anything now. That is the problem with comedy, a joke that is funny today can be a terrible faux pas tomorrow".
Gervais's fourth show was entitled Science, and commenced with an eleven date tour in August 2009 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow.[63] The show opened to little critical praise.[64] Writing for The Independent, Julian Hall gave Science two stars out of five, stating that it was Gervais's "most disappointing" offering yet.[65] The DVD for Science was released on 15 November 2010.[66] In November 2009 he headlined the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival at Carnegie Hall, New York.[67]
Gervais has begun writing his fifth stand-up routine, to be titled Humanity.[68]
[edit] Grand Theft Auto IV
Gervais is one of two featured comedians (the other being Katt Williams) in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV who performs at the Comedy Club and on the television in the game.
DVD releases[link]
| Title | Released | Notes |
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| Animals | 17 November 2003 | Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London |
| Politics | 15 November 2004 | Live at the Palace Theatre, London |
| Fame | 12 November 2007 | Live at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London |
| Science | 22 November 2010 | Live at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London |
Books[link]
[edit] Flanimals
Gervais released a children's book in 2004, Flanimals (illustrated by his Rob Steen), which depicted nonsense animals. After the success of this book, he released its sequel More Flanimals in 2005, with Flanimals of the Deep coming the next year. A new Flanimals book, Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling, was released in October 2007. Flanimals: Pop Up was also published in 2009.[69]
There is a wide range of Flanimals merchandise available, including dolls and gift cards. A six-part Flanimals TV series has been commissioned by ITV,[70] although Gervais had previously claimed signing a Hollywood movie deal[71] so that a franchise could be developed. "That way it stands a chance of being the next Dr. Seuss or Mr. Men".[72]
Other books[link]
The Office scripts have been released in book form, with Series 1 issued in 2002, and the remaining episodes following in 2003.
In late 2006 the Extras script book was released, as well as The World of Karl Pilkington presented by Gervais and Merchant. These were essentially transcripts of Xfm/podcast routines performed by the three.
Film[link]
Gervais's film career has included small roles as the voice of a pigeon in 2005's Valiant, as a studio executive in 2006's For Your Consideration, as museum director Dr. McPhee in 2006's Night at the Museum and its sequel Night at the Museum 2, and as "Ferdy the Fence" in the 2007 film Stardust. His role in Night at the Museum has proven to be one of Gervais's most popular roles[citation needed], with the movie grossing $570 million worldwide.[73][74]
Gervais starred in Ghost Town, which was released on 19 September 2008, and was in Lowell, Massachusetts during May 2008 filming his next project, The Invention of Lying, starring himself, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, and Louis C.K., with appearances by Tina Fey, Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Bateman, Roz Ryan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Edward Norton. The comedy, released in 2009, was co-written and co-directed by Gervais and Matt Robinson.[75]
Gervais and co-writer Stephen Merchant made a film called Cemetery Junction, set in 1970s England, about class, love and fulfillment.[76] The film was released in April 2010.
Gervais was the voice of Argonaut in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, released in 2011. He has also been cast as Mole in the 2012 adaption of The Wind in the Willows, featuring effects by Weta Workshop in New Zealand.[77]
Other appearances[link]
On 2 July 2005 Gervais appeared at the Live 8 event held in Hyde Park, London, where he performed his famous dance. He produced a series of short films for the cause, linked acts from the studio with Jonathan Ross, and also introduced the group R.E.M..
Gervais also has a role in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, as himself, appearing in his role as a comedian in a comedy club, and as an interviewee on radio station We Know The Truth. For this, a special 3-minute act was written, recorded and fully motion-captured.[78]
Gervais has also hosted the 2010 and 2011 Golden Globe Awards. His 2011 hosting of the awards was controversial for his edgy jokes that were at the expense of many of the nominees, similar to the New York Friars Club roast style jokes.[79] His jibes were described as setting "a corrosive tone" by one critic, though some celebrities were seen crying from laughter, leaving the overall reaction to be 'mixed'.[80][81]
Boxing[link]
In 2002 Gervais took part in a charity boxing match against Grant Bovey — known to the public only due to his relationship with TV personality Anthea Turner. On his Saturday afternoon radio show on Xfm London Gervais and partners Merchant and Pilkington had discussions on both Gervais's attitude towards boxing and training in general, as well as his likelihood of victory against Bovey. Initially, Merchant had questions as to why Gervais was participating in the event, due to his dislike of slight pain and his inexperience with fitness in general.
Gervais was trained for the three-round contest by famous boxing trainer brothers Frank and Eugene Maloney, at their Fight Factory gymnasium. It was the second televised charity boxing match, the first being Bob Mortimer against Les Dennis, for Comic Relief. The fight was televised by the BBC, and Gervais came out on top by a split decision verdict. Gervais later said that the experience was the 'most difficult thing' he had ever done. He donated his £5,000 prize money to the training of a Macmillan nurse.
Concert for Diana and Live Earth[link]
On 1 July 2007 Gervais performed at the Concert for Diana in Wembley Stadium, a music event celebrating the life of the Princess of Wales. Towards the end of the event — after a pre-recorded introduction from Ben Stiller — Gervais appeared along with fellow Office star Mackenzie Crook. They performed Free Love Freeway, a song previously heard in the fourth episode of series one of The Office. Due to a technical problem, Gervais then had to fill time until he was able to re-introduce Elton John to close the show, so he did the David Brent dance again, as well as singing the "Little Fat Man" song as performed by David Bowie in episode two of the second series of Extras.
On 7 July 2007 Gervais appeared at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London. Gervais introduced Rob Reiner appearing in the guise of spoof film director Marty Di Bergi, who in turn introduced Spinal Tap.
In July 2007, following Gervais's appearance at the memorial concert for the Princess of Wales, The Guardian ran a column by Daily Mirror television critic Jim Shelley entitled "Call Me Crazy... But Has Ricky Gervais Lost It?", where he described Gervais as a "tiresome embarrassment".[82] The following week, The Guardian noted that Gervais had responded with "an exhilaratingly foul-mouthed tirade" on his website, concluding with the words, "Yes I am resting on my fucking laurels you cunt!" In this video Gervais mocked Jim Shelley typing the words "Resting on his laurels" as Gervais jokingly lashed out by stating he was resting on his laurels and that he was not going to make another show for television, quipping "What's the point? What is there to beat?"[83]
On 18 October 2011, Gervais attracted criticism for his repeated use of the word "mong" (short for "mongoloid"), a historically derogatory term for mentally disabled people, most commonly used against those with Downs syndrome.[84] Gervais claimed the word no longer represented this meaning.[85]
Although other comedians and support groups for the disabled pointed out that verbal and physical abuse of the disabled was on the increase,[86] Gervais initially remained defiant over his use of the word.[87] He later apologised, saying that he found it hard to believe that "idiots" still used the word to refer to people with Down Syndrome.[88]
Personal life[link]
Gervais currently lives in Hampstead,[89] having moved from Bloomsbury, with his girlfriend of 30 years, producer and screenwriter Jane Fallon. He says they chose not to marry because "there's no point in us having an actual ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God" or have children because they "didn't fancy dedicating 16 years of our lives. And there are too many children, of course".[90] In August 2008, they bought a second home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.[91]
Gervais is a fervent supporter of animal rights, and has been a fan of wildlife documentaries since he was a child.[92] He has spoken out against fox hunting and bullfighting, and wrote to Gordon Brown urging him to stop the use of black bear fur as caps for the Foot Guards.[93][94]
He told Kirsty Young that he is an atheist during a 2007 interview for Desert Island Discs,[95][96] later stating he lost his faith at the age of eight,[97] and in June 2008 he became an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. In December 2010 he wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal defending his lack of faith.[98]
Accolades and awards[link]
Gervais has received many awards for his work on The Office, most notably two Golden Globes (one for acting, one for the show itself), as well as numerous British Academy Television Awards and British Comedy Awards, amongst others.
Gervais received an honorary award at the annual Rose d'Or ceremony in Switzerland on 29 April 2006. The award is given to "an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to the global entertainment business".[99]
On 16 September 2007, Gervais won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role of Andy Millman on Extras.[100]
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Filmography[link]
Film[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Dog Eat Dog | Bouncer | |
| 2005 | Valiant | Bugsy | Voice only |
| 2006 | For Your Consideration | Martin Gibb | |
| Night at the Museum | Dr. McPhee | ||
| 2007 | Stardust | Ferdy the Fence | |
| 2008 | Ghost Town | Dr. Bertram Pincus | Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Dr. McPhee | |
| The Invention of Lying | Mark Bellison | Writer, director, producer[75] | |
| 2010 | Cemetery Junction | Len Taylor | Writer, director, executive producer (with Stephen Merchant) |
| 2011 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | Argonaut | Voice only |
| The Muppets | Cameo | ||
| 2012 | The Wind in the Willows | Mole | Voice only Pre-production |
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The 11 O'Clock Show | Various | Unknown episodes |
| 1999 | The Jim Tavaré Show | Various | 7 episodes Writer - 12 episodes |
| Comedy Lab | Clive Meadows | Episode: "Golden Years" (Also writer) | |
| 2000 | Bruiser | Recurring | 6 episodes |
| Meet Ricky Gervais | Himself | ||
| 2001 | The Sketch Show | Various | Unknown episodes |
| Spaced | Dave | 1 episode | |
| 2001–2003 | The Office (UK) | David Brent | 14 episodes including 2 Christmas specials Writer, director |
| 2002 | Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe | Penguin | Voice |
| 2004 | Alias | Daniel Ryan | Episode: "Façade" |
| 2005 | Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show | Various | Unknown episodes |
| 2005–2007 | Extras | Andy Millman | 13 episodes Writer, director, executive producer |
| 2006 | The Simpsons | Charles Heathbar | Writer Episode: "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" |
| 2008 | Ricky Gervais: Out of England – The Stand-Up Special | Himself | |
| 2009 | Sesame Street | 3 episodes | |
| 2010 | The Ricky Gervais Show | With Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant[101] | |
| An Idiot Abroad | With Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant | ||
| Louie | Dr. Ben | 2 episodes | |
| 2011 | Life's Too Short | Himself | With Stephen Merchant and Warwick Davis |
| The Office (US) | David Brent | Episodes: "The Seminar" and "Search Committee" | |
| The Simpsons | Himself | Episode: "Angry Dad: The Movie" | |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | Episode: "The Hero" | ||
| Talking Funny | With Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Louis C.K. | ||
| An Idiot Abroad 2: The Bucket List | With Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant | ||
| 2012 | Afterlife | God | With Clyde Phillips |
| Family Guy | Billy Finn | Episode: "Be Careful What You Fish For" | |
| Derek | Derek Noakes | Channel 4 pilot Writer, director and executive producer. |
Video games[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2008 | Grand Theft Auto IV | Himself |
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- ^ "The joke's on Ricky Gervais as he reveals his father 'may have been drunk' when he filled in his birth certificate. Gervais recently admitted in an interview that he had "a very honest family" and the only lie his mother ever told him was that God existed. – Mail Online". Daily Mail (UK). 27 January 2009. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1129313/The-jokes-Ricky-Gervais-reveals-father-drunk-filled-birth-certificate.html. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ The Independent (2005). – "The youngest, by some way, of four brothers, his childhood was trauma-free. Like The Waltons, he says, "If the Waltons took the piss out of each other. You had to be able to answer back." The first time he did, he got a laugh and, his family reasoned, "He'll be alright.""
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- ^ The Independent (2005). – "Aged 21, he was in a band himself, new romantics Seona Dancing. Their singles reached 117 and 70. The video for one, "Bitter Heart", was set in a blacksmith's."
- ^ The Observer (2005) "'Not at all,' he says. 'When I was working at ULU I never thought, "This is shit" or "The money is bad." I thought: "This is quite a good job." I suppose if all this had not come along I might now have been a 43-year-old entertainments manager. But that never worried me at the time."
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- ^ The Observer (2006). "Merchant was his deputy. Instead of worrying too much about being heads of speech, they mostly worked on little routines. Merchant was sometimes obliged to wheel his boss around the office in his executive chair. 'I remember going out for a drink with Steve early on,' Gervais says. 'I said to him, "You've done media studies, you can do all the boring stuff, all the filing, I'll mess around." He said: "OK." And that was that."
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- Heatley, Michael (2006). Ricky Gervais — The Story So Far.... Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 1-84317-219-4.
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- Time Magazine (2008). Renaissance Man: Ricky Gervais by Joel Stein
- The Independent, et al. (2005). Ricky Gervais: My life as a pure superstar Electronic Version Independent News Media: United Kingdom
- The Guardian Newspaper, et al. (2005). "Second Coming" Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2007: United Kingdom
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| Name | Gervais, Ricky |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | English actor, comedian, author, director, producer |
| Date of birth | 25 June 1961 |
| Place of birth | Reading, England |
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| Seth Meyers | |
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 Meyers at the Time 100 Gala, May 4, 2010. |
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| Birth name | Seth Adam Meyers |
| Born | (1973-12-28) December 28, 1973 (age 38) Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Medium | Television, film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Genres | Satire/political satire/news satire, improvisational comedy, sketch comedy |
| Subject(s) | American politics, American culture, current events, pop culture, mass media/news media |
| Notable works and roles | Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live |
Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He currently serves as head writer for Saturday Night Live and hosts its news parody segment Weekend Update.
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Early life[link]
Meyers was born in Evanston, Illinois,[1] the son of Hilary Claire (née Olson), a middle school French teacher, and Laurence Meyers, Jr.[2][3] He attended Manchester High School West in Manchester, New Hampshire. He went on to graduate from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. Meyers is the older brother of Josh Meyers, who was best known as a cast member of MADtv.
Career[link]
Before SNL, Meyers got his improv comedy start as a member of the Northwestern University improv sketch group Mee-Ow, created by Paul Warshauer and Josh Lazar. He continued his career at ImprovOlympic with the group Preponderate as well as overseas as a cast member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam,[4] where his brother was also a cast member.[5]
Meyers appeared with Brendan Fraser and Anita Briem in the 2008 3D film Journey to the Center of the Earth. He also makes a cameo in the 2008 film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist as a drunk man who mistakes the main character's Yugo for a taxi. Meyers is currently writing and will star in a movie called Key Party. He also starred in the 2004 comedy See This Movie with John Cho.[6][7] In July 2008, Meyers directed the web series The Line on Crackle.[8] Meyers has hosted the Webby Awards twice, in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, Meyers hosted the Microsoft Company Meeting at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA.[9] Meyers hosted the 2010 and 2011 ESPY Awards on ESPN.[10] In 2011, Seth Meyers was the keynote speaker at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on April 30; during his introductory remarks, he made a joke about Osama bin Laden's actions while in hiding,[11] unaware that US intelligence had found bin Laden and he would be dead within hours.
[edit] Saturday Night Live
Meyers joined the SNL cast in 2001.[5] In 2005, he was promoted to writing supervisor,[citation needed] and in January 2006 he became co-head writer, sharing the role with Tina Fey and Andrew Steele.[12] In 2004, he auditioned to co-anchor "Weekend Update" with Fey, but lost out to Amy Poehler.[13] With Fey's departure, Meyers became head writer for the 2006–2007 season and also took on the role of Weekend Update co-anchor with Amy Poehler.[14][15] Since Poehler left the show during the 2008–2009 season, Meyers has anchored solo. In fall 2009, Meyers co-anchored two episodes of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday with Poehler.[citation needed]
During the 2008 United States presidential election,[16] while appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, former SNL cast member Fey credited Meyers with writing the sketches involving Fey's impression of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
On SNL, Meyers has impersonated such figures as John Kerry,[5] Michael Caine, Anderson Cooper, Carrot Top, Prince Charles, Ryan Seacrest, Sean Penn,[5] Stone Phillips,[5] Tobey Maguire, Peyton Manning, Ben Curtis (also known as the Dell Dude), Ty Pennington, Bill Cowher, Brian Williams, Nicollette Sheridan, Wade Robson, Donald Trump, Jr., Tom Cruise, and Kevin Federline. His recurring characters include Zach Ricky, host of the kids' hidden camera show "Pranksters"; Nerod, the receptionist in the recurring sketch "Appalachian Emergency Room"; David Zinger, a scientist who often insults his fellow workers; DJ Johnathan Feinstein, the DJ on the webcam show "Jarett's Room"; Dan Needler, half of a married couple "that should be divorced," (opposite Amy Poehler); William Fitzpatrick, from the Irish talk show "Top o' the Morning," and Boston Powers (one of the comedians in the "Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy" series). In the season 29 episode hosted by Lindsay Lohan, he did an impression of Ron Weasley in a parody of Harry Potter.
Meyers supported and picketed during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. When interviewed he said, "We all know how lucky we are to have the jobs we have. We're not asking for much. You have to change the rules because people are watching TV in a different way."[17] Even so, he mentioned in interviews that he regretted missing much of the presidential election primary season.[18][19]
Meyers is currently the longest tenured Saturday Night Live cast member, having been a member since Season 27.
Other pursuits[link]
Meyers won the third season of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown and donated the $100,000 prize to the Boston-based Jimmy Fund.[20][21] In 2008, Meyers donated over $4,000 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.[22] Meyers and SNL castmate Bill Hader penned a Spider-Man one-shot entitled "The Short Halloween". It was illustrated by Kevin Maguire and came out May 29, 2009, to positive reviews. Meyers, along with Mike Shoemaker of SNL, created an animated half-hour series "The Awesomes" that was picked up by MTV and will be produced by Lorne Michaels's production company, Broadway Video.[23] He was also a guest speaker at the 2011 White House Press Correspondents Dinner.
Personal life[link]
Meyers is an avid fan of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, the Pittsburgh Steelers (his father being a Pittsburgh native), and West Ham United in the English Premier League.[24][25] He is the older brother of actor Josh Meyers.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Other Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | See This Movie | Jake Barrymore | |
| Maestro | Tim Healy | ||
| 2005 | Perception | Steven | |
| The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and his Little Friend | Disgruntled Dork | ||
| 2006 | American Dreamz | Chet Krogl | |
| 2007 | Spring Breakdown | William Rushfield | |
| 2008 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Professor Alan Kitzens | |
| Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Drunk Guy in Yugo | ||
| 2011 | I Don't Know How She Does It | Chris Bunce | |
| New Year's Eve | Griffin |
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- ^ "Miss Hilary Olson marries Mr. Meyers". Boston Globe. July 5, 1970. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1946965372.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+05%2C+1970&author=&pub=Boston+Globe+(1960-1979)&desc=Miss+Hilary+Olson+marries+Mr.+Meyers&pqatl=google.
- ^ Rapkin, Mickey (September 10, 2004), "Going Dutch". Entertainment Weekly. (782/783):18
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- ^ "For anybody that's ever waited in line to see a movie / Star Trek". Star Trek Phase II. July 26, 2008. http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/forum/index.php?topic=5588.0. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
- ^ "Seth Meyers to emcee Microsoft Company Meeting at Safeco". Seattle PI – The Microsoft Blog. September 3, 2009. http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/178261.asp?source=rss. Retrieved September 10, 2009.
- ^ "Seth Meyers to Host ESPYs Again". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Seth-Meyers-ESPYs-1023405.aspx. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i7V4NSCFxM
- ^ SNL undergoing another generational shift, an AP article from The Arizona Republic website
- ^ Gary Levin (September 29, 2006), "'SNL' will update its Weekend Update". USA Today
- ^ "Fey, Dratch Give Up Saturday Night". E! Online), eonline.com. July 24, 2006. http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=b1b31fb1-7238-4341-9348-425c793c0853. Retrieved November 3, 2007.
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- Live from New York: It’s Sunday Afternoon! conversation with Fred Armisen, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, and Kristen Wiig at The New Yorker Festival, October 2010
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