David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Ricky Gervais to perform in L.A.
Well, in eight months, that is. But tickets for the stand-up show featuring the Emmy-winning co-creator and star of “The Office” and “Extras” – which ends forever tomorrow on HBO – go on sale Tuesday, so act fast.
DVDs of a couple of Gervais’s previous stand-up shows are available locally occasionally – at Amoeba, for one – but you have to have a foreign-born DVD player to make sense of them. Now, you don’t have to bother with all that – you just have to have a really reliable high-speed connection or be really lucky on the telephone.
Gervais – who also boasts hosting the world’s most popular podcast – has announced but one performance at the Kodak Theatre on July 12 (Given that he’ll be performing in New York two days later, chances are he’ll be able to add a performance or two on either side of the 12th). Tickets ($56-$31) go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. at ticketmaster.com, although apparently good friends of, shall we say, Ticketmaster’s utterly uncorrupt uberlords can start scooping up tickets as soon as Sunday.
So good luck, and here’s hoping the strike’ll end soon enough that you can afford scalped tickets to his show.