Gervais' stand up is pretty poor as well in my opinion.
I thought his stand-up was very good personally.
I do say
thought as in past tense deliberately though. The guy has two tricks up his sleeves.... Religion and fat people. That's about it. As an atheist I think a lot of his stuff is/was funny and I love taking the piss out of religion. He also makes some good points that I agree with but the bloke really needs to change the fucking record. Occasionally at least.
I also find Gervais irritating. Fuck having somebody like that sat at your table in the pub.
All that asides, he has done a lot of great stuff. Or, perhaps more to the point, he
and the people he has worked with (such as Merchant) have done some great stuff.