The Invention of Lying (movie)

Ricky Gervais may have indeed "warned" the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. that he'd pull no comedic punches and spare none of Hollywood's sacred cows in reprising his hosting role on the 68th Golden Globes broadcast. Nonetheless, a visible contingent in...

America's most-watched network, CBS, revealed its plans for the 2011-12 season Wednesday, introducing five news series and moving "CSI" and "The Good Wife" to new nights. "CSI" will move to 9 p.m. Wednesdays, while "The Good Wife" will air at 8 p.m....

NEW YORK — CBS announced today its new 2011-2012 primetime schedule, ordering five new series and making key time-period moves for CSI and THE GOOD WIFE to strengthen its already top-rated primetime lineup.  CBS will, once again, finish the season...

You couldn't avoid Ricky Gervais right now, even if you wanted to. The English comedian has a new stand-up special premiering on HBO on Saturday, just weeks before the DVD release of the first season of "The Ricky Gervais Show," an animated incarnation...

Ricky Gervais, 49, British comedian and star of movies such as "The Invention of Lying," may joke onstage, but he is serious about comedy. "I do this because I can't not do it," Gervais said in an interview in October while in town filming his second HBO...

Getting older is a tough one to bear. I realize what I'm saying to you won't shock most of you. After all, we all get older, slowly but surely, and eventually, we realize that things are never going to magically......

In the world according to "The Invention of Lying," truth rules because no one has thought of the alternative. Bus advertisements for Coke keep it short and simple ("It's very famous"). First encounters are brutal affairs ("Hi. I'm threatened by you"),...

-- The scene being filmed called for Ricky Gervais to clear up the question of whether or not he was the Messiah. Despite the weighty confusion, the British comedian looked every bit himself -- barrel-waisted, sheepish and wearing a dark suit -- as he...