Life's Too Short

7.2IMDb Score
Released:2011-11-10
Genre:Comedy
Duration:30 min
Director:
Actors:Warwick Davis, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Shaun Williamson
Production:Backlash Productions

Overview:

Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant from an idea by Warwick Davis, and is as described by Gervais, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf".

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