Ricky Gervais is celebrating 26 years since being ... Union (ULU), and then head of speech at alternative radio station Xfm.

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A late entrant to the world of comedy, Gervais only started to try to tap his talent for making people laugh in ... He later, briefly, managed the band Suede, before landing a job on London's XFM ...

Titled after the first-ever song to play on their airwaves, Kick Out the Jams follows the development of XFM from its rebellious ... gave rise to the likes of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant ...

Ricky Gervais has announced his first set of London ... In 1998, Gervais was working at the London radio station XFM as head of speech, but was laid off when the channel was bought out by Capital ...