Ricky Gervais

[Duncan Clench]

The cartoon versions of the podcasts are starting on Channel 4 tomorrow, for those who don't think he's a fat faced cunt.

[Liam]

Gervais and Merchant are class. End of story.

 

The Office is brilliant. Extras is very good. This cartoon can be taken with a pinch of salt, although I wouldnt be surprised if I like that also.

[Mendoza]

There is quite a large backlash against Gervais these days which, unlike Peter Kay, i don't think is merited.

[Antynwa]

I like him, I think it's healthy to like a comedian who doesn't have to abuse every race, gender and sexual orientation to get laughs.

[IgorsNan]

Saw Cemetery Junction yesterday. I actually really enjoyed it. The humour isn't quite as funny as The Office but is still pretty good. I did actually care about the characters unlike some critics in reviews i've read. If you see it as an unoriginal, predictable comedy-drama then its very, very good. If you go in expecting anything more, or even a pure comedy - you will be disappointed.

[Guest TesticleOReilly]

Gervais and Merchant are money machines. The podcasts are great fun, been watching the cartoons since they started a while back, and at first I thought he was a cheeky twat, selling the podcast to HBO and having it rehashed as a cartoon. Then I thought he was a genius for selling the podcast to HBO and having it rehashed as a cartoon.

 

Good to listen to them again.

[Liam]

I like him, I think it's healthy to like a comedian who doesn't have to abuse every race, gender and sexual orientation to get laughs.

 

Religion, fat people and to a lesser extent disability / illnesses and homosexuality are reocurring themes on his stand up tours.

 

Religion and fat people are the two I find funniest. Both are probably to some extent justifiably ridiculed.

[dlfc]

I thought I was going to be the only one who thinks he's overrated. I'm glad I'm not.

[The Special One]

I tried to listen to the podcast. Pilkington is quite funny but I got really irritated with Gervais' laugh and turned it off.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I don't particularly like Gervais is anything other than Extras. I've not liked either of the two films of his that I've seen (Ghost Town and Invention of Lying). I'm surprised that he has been so successful. Good luck to him, though. People seem to like his stuff.

[dlfc]

I like him, I think it's healthy to like a comedian who doesn't have to abuse every race, gender and sexual orientation to get laughs.

 

I can't find the link (and couldn't post it anyway) but he and Merchant insulted Victoria Wright, the actor with cherubism, on a radio show. In an interview with the Independent recently she says she still feels hurt by it. I didn't like him before and things like that are not actually going to change my view.

[Redder Lurtz]

Saw Cemetery Junction yesterday. I actually really enjoyed it. The humour isn't quite as funny as The Office but is still pretty good. I did actually care about the characters unlike some critics in reviews i've read. If you see it as an unoriginal, predictable comedy-drama then its very, very good. If you go in expecting anything more, or even a pure comedy - you will be disappointed.

 

I can almost hear Gervais laughing at that. "I went to see Cemetary Junction. It wasn't as funny as The Office but it was alright."

 

Gervais and Merchant are absolute class, Gervais' Hollywood 'career' aside. I've just started listening to the Pilkington podcasts from the beginning. Superb stuff.

[Wor Horse]

On now.

 

Funny this.

[Wor Horse]

fuck off double post.

[Steve Holt]

Sounds good. Not been overly impressed with his films, they're ok, but he excels at comedy. I thought they'd said they'd finished with sitcoms though?

 

Getting very bored of him banging on about atheism at every opportunity though. It's ok, we get it, you're an atheist:

 

BBC News - 'If I were Prime Minister...'

 

I really don't get what he has said wrong there. He makes a fantastic point.

[Spy Bee]

All the animation put me right off!

[Original202]

I really don't get what he has said wrong there. He makes a fantastic point.

 

It's the fact he drops his atheist views into everything now that annoys me, not his views per se.

[Ted]

Meh. Just sounded like two blokes trying to get a third bloke to say something stupid so they could just laugh at him.

[Guest davelfc]

Meh. Just sounded like two blokes trying to get a third bloke to say something stupid so they could just laugh at him.

 

Ssssh, like 'The Emperor's New Clothes' you're supposed to find it really funny and laugh a lot at it, otherwise you just haven't got a sense of humour.

[The Dude Abides]

Stud.

 

[Original202]

 

Where did it all go wrong?

 

Merchant however has gone from looking a total nerd to looking pretty cool.

[Section_31]

What's the score with Gervais's cringeworthy over-the-top fake laugh everytime that Karl Pilkington fella says something?

[Faustus]

The Office and Extras were quality. The speech he gave in the BB House on the Extras Xmas special was just fantastic. One of the best telly moments of the last few years, in my book.

 

His film stuff is distinctly average though, I reckon. The Invention Of Lying had a really good premise but ran out of steam after about 20 minutes or so.

[Guest davelfc]

I only hope that An Idiot Abroad is as funny as the preview, well the Pilkington parts of the preview are great, the gervais bit and his lanky sidekick are not.

 

What does Merchant do?

[The Dude Abides]

What's the score with Gervais's cringeworthy over-the-top fake laugh everytime that Karl Pilkington fella says something?