Ricky Gervais and the Great Brain Robbery

It doesn't take Columbo to uncover numerous clear examples of light-fingeredness by disabled-mocking TV unfunny-man Ricky Gervais. Back in 2004 he riped off of my manuscript in the making of Flanimals, and it turns out I'm not the only one. Question marks hang over the originality of all of Gervais' productions. Far from writing and producing his own material, as he claims, Gervais appears to be a pathological kleptomaniac. Past thievery includes Extras, which was directly stolen ; concept, title and setting from award winning Australian pilot The Extra , conceived by Adam Wells and directed by Darren Ashton in 1999, but by far the worst and the most recent known example of theft is from a script entitled Good Grief from writer Ben Russel in the making of Afterlife . Prior to all this Gervais is no stranger to a life of crime. Before his involvement in bigtime script robbery he pilfered The Off...