Today's Tv: Star Comedian Pulls No Punches ; Ricky Gervais Fame (Channel 4, 10pm)

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Dwarves, cancer patients and Hitler's missing testicle - just some of the subjects discussed in the opening minutes of Ricky Gervais: Fame, as the award-winning comic continues to flirt dangerously between the acceptable and the outrageous.

After a lengthy introduction listing many of his successes, which is more tongue-in-cheek than self-congratulatory, Reading's most popular comic export takes to the stage in a crown and gown, joking that the entire show's budget was blown on his attire for the evening and asking: "It's not too over the top, is it?"

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Today's Tv: Star Comedian Pulls No Punches ; Ricky Gervais Fame (Channel 4, 10pm)

The 47-year-old funnyman has reason to be cocky - his third stand- up tour sold out in nine minutes, he's flogged more than fiv...

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