--- description: He made special guest appearances in a few Netflix series title: Watch Ricky Gervais Star in a Netflix Ad During the Emmys image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d00d1dc17efcc46/6986a0de13c79f6d6c19398a/2014-08-25t230003z_789337457_tb3ea8p1s.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Ricky Gervais Invade Netflix Shows During the Emmys by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 26, 2014 12:59 AM CUT  Actor Ricky Gervais arrives at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California August 25, 2014. Actor Ricky Gervais arrives at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California August 25, 2014.Lucy Nicholson—Reuters by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 26, 2014 12:59 AM CUT Just minutes after Jimmy Kimmel roasted Ricky Gervais onstage at the Emmys — “Where’s Ricky? Now _that’s_ a television face,” he said, contrasting the comedian with handsome Matthew McConaughey, “not even really a television face, it’s a Netflix face” — Gervais appeared quite literally as the face of Netflix in a commercial for its original programming. “You know when you’re watching your favorite Netflix show,” Gervais asks the camera from his seat on a couch, “and after five straight episodes, it’s like, you wanna be in it?” Next thing you know, he pops up on the sets of Netflix shows from _House of Cards_ to _Lilyhammer_ to _Orange Is the New Black_, crumbling under the hostility of the Litchfield inmates. Gervais himself stars in _Derek_, a British import streaming on Netflix, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Actor in a Comedy Series, which he has already lost to Jim Parsons for his work on _The Big Bang Theory_. What are the odds of Netflix paying actors $1 million per episode anytime soon? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3179361/emmys-2014-ricky-gervais-netflix-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3179361/emmys-2014-ricky-gervais-netflix-ad/"},"headline":"Watch Ricky Gervais Invade Netflix Shows During the Emmys","datePublished":"2014-08-26T00:59:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:51:04.623Z","description":"He made special guest appearances in a few Netflix series","url":"https://time.com/3179361/emmys-2014-ricky-gervais-netflix-ad/","keywords":["Television","Netflix","Ricky Gervais","emmys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d00d1dc17efcc46/6986a0de13c79f6d6c19398a/2014-08-25t230003z_789337457_tb3ea8p1s.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d00d1dc17efcc46/6986a0de13c79f6d6c19398a/2014-08-25t230003z_789337457_tb3ea8p1s.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actor Ricky Gervais arrives at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles","caption":"Actor Ricky Gervais arrives at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles","creditText":"Lucy Nicholson—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3179361/emmys-2014-ricky-gervais-netflix-ad/","name":"Watch Ricky Gervais Invade Netflix Shows During the Emmys"}}]}] ```