Stephen Merchant Tickets

It's not widely known Stephen started his career as a stand-up comedian and radio presenter - at XFM where he met Gervais.  In 2001, Merchant in fact shared a stand-up bill in four-hander Rubbernecker, with Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr and Robin Ince at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Bristolian Merchant, along with Gervais and Karl Pilkington, features in the Guinness Book Of World Records for having the most downloaded internet show of all time, clocking up a staggering 280,000,000 downloads.  Their conversations have subsequently been animated for HBO cartoon series The Ricky Gervais Show, the second series is currently airing on HBO and will go out on E4 in March.

Merchant's latest show, An Idiot Abroad (Sky One), is a live-action travelogue series starring Karl Pilkington.  Merchant also appears in this hugely successful series, which became the highest rated Sky One show since 2008.  A second series has just been commissioned. 

Merchant's film credits include:  Tooth Fairy with Dwayne Johnson and cameos in Hot Fuzz and Run Fat Boy Run alongside Simon Pegg.  He directed his first feature film Cemetery Junction with Gervais, which was released in 2010 and he also appears in  Hall Pass with Owen Wilson,  released on 11 March 2011.