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Stephen Merchant

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Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001–2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005–2007) and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. He also provided the voice of the robotic "Intelligence Dampening Sphere" Wheatley in the video games Portal 2 (2011) and LEGO Dimensions (2015). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Merchant is the 75th most popular comedian (down from 69th in 2019), the 6,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,174th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Comedian.

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Among COMEDIANS

Among comedians, Stephen Merchant ranks 75 out of 98. Before him are B. J. Novak, Wanda Sykes, Janeane Garofalo, Dave Chappelle, Mindy Kaling, and Gallagher. After him are Bill Burr, Joy Behar, Sam Kinison, Nick Swardson, Margaret Cho, and Nick Kroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Stephen Merchant ranks 392. Before him are Eva-Maria Liimets, Breckin Meyer, Carmit Bachar, Irina Vlah, Alexander Zickler, and Paulo Jamelli. After him are Samoth, Miroslav Šatan, Tayfun Korkut, Julian Rachlin, Stéphane Sarrazin, and Meg White.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Merchant ranks 6,063 out of 8,785. Before him are Myles Coverdale (1488), Gloria Holden (1903), Thomas Shadwell (1642), Janet Munro (1934), Rosemarie Frankland (1943), and Philippe Sands (1960). After him are Callum Turner (1990), Frank Bruno (1961), Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772), Max Sciandri (1967), Hannah Murray (1989), and Arthur Lowe (1915).

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Among COMEDIANS In United Kingdom

Among comedians born in United Kingdom, Stephen Merchant ranks 6. Before him are Simon Pegg (1970), Bob Hope (1903), Ricky Gervais (1961), Steve Coogan (1965), and Tracey Ullman (1959).

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