Why by a book when you can join a library.

In one of those segments Gervais claimed the episode "Training" to be his favourite. "
The show stars actor Warwick Davis playing a fictionalised version of himself as well as Gervais and Merchant in cameo roles as themselves.

Gervais has also starred in Hollywood films Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. Ricky Dene Gervais (/dʒərˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian actor director producer musician writer and former radio presenter. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009The Ricky Gervais Show.