Ricky Gervais makes history by raking in HUGE sum for one stand-up gig
RICKY Gervais has made history at the Hollywood Bowl taking a record breaking £1.41million at the Box Office for a single gig.
The gig, which took place on 6 May, is now the highest-grossing single gig ever by a British stand-up comedian.
It was part of Ricky’s new Armageddon show which he is touring worldwide.
Ricky, 61, said of the news: “To find out about this record is the icing on the cake. I was happy enough when it didn’t rain.”
He previously tweeted about playing at the iconic venue, saying after the gig: “Thank you Hollywood Bowl for one of the most surreal nights of my life. What a venue. What a crowd.
“I can’t even imagine what my mum would think about me playing the Hollywood Bowl.
“I hope she would be horrified by the language, tell me I looked fat, and be secretly proud.
“Wish I’d filmed it now… if only to remind myself it actually happened.”
Ricky returns to the UK on Monday night for a gig in Cambridge before moving on to the First Direct Arena in Leeds on 25 May and then two dates at the Manchester O2 Apollo on 20 and 31 of this month.
As well as taking in further dates across Europe and the US, including two back-to-back gigs at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Ricky will perform two huge dates at Wembley arena in October and do a run of ten nights at the London Palladium.
The Sun revealed last March how Ricky was working on some of his most close-to-the-bone material in Armageddon.
He said at a secret set in London’s Leicester Square: “The new show is going to be called Armageddon and it’s going to be about how I think humanity will end — whether we will evolve, go to another planet, or we destroy it with things at our disposal.
“People born this century are going to have a very different middle age to me.
“It’s my fault and the generation before me, the Boomers — with fossil fuels, deforestation, causing global warming, everything like that.
“So, 20-year-olds today, in 40 years’ time they’ll be – huddled in their houses like prisons, wearing masks, afraid, in pain, crying . . . like they do now over jokes.
“I am going to spend all of my money on private jets from now on, to make sure it definitely f***ing happens.”