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Stephen Merchant

1974 - Today

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Stephen James Merchant (born 24 November 1974) is an English comedian, actor, director, and writer. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Merchant has received more than 10,288,597 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Stephen Merchant is the 72nd most popular comedian (down from 57th in 2019), the 5,002nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,354th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Comedian.

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  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMEDIANS

Among comedians, Stephen Merchant ranks 72 out of 91Before him are Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Mindy Kaling, Sinbad, Jemaine Clement, and Fred Armisen. After him are Janeane Garofalo, Bill Burr, Nick Swardson, Andrew Dice Clay, Tim Meadows, and Kristen Schaal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Stephen Merchant ranks 261Before him are Meg White, Hichem Mechichi, Rasheed Wallace, J Dilla, David Faustino, and Krisztina Egerszegi. After him are Kōji Wada, Christopher Gorham, Randall Park, Pablo Pineda, Lezley Zen, and Thomas Enqvist.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Merchant ranks 5,002 out of 7,765Before him are Steve Strange (1959), Horace Gould (1921), Paul Mariner (1953), John Nunn (1955), Ronald Pope (1920), and Lucy Gordon (1980). After him are Chris Claremont (1950), Bob Bell (1958), Anne Heywood (1931), Jeff Noon (1957), Alan Sugar (1947), and William Fox (1812).

Among COMEDIANS In United Kingdom

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

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