Ricky Gervais

AGE: 47
OCCUPATION: Comedian, scamp
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Gervais' droll award-show appearances — he mock-tormented Steve Carrell at the Emmys and got away with a Holocaust joke at the Golden Globes — were award-worthy in and of themselves. Perhaps the British would be interested in trading him for Dane Cook?

CON: His first starring-role feature, the underrated Ghost Town, disappeared after only a few weekends.

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