Ricky Gervais

Affable

Comic genius or irksome little tit?

Discuss....

DeBeere

Genius, simple as.

keefg

A bit of both.

Sanjuro

Lazy, fat genius.

Genghiz Cohen

Sanjuro wrote: »

Lazy, fat genius.

+1

RATM

Absolute Genuis. The Office was one of the best written comedies in years. A lot of ppl seemed to relate to David Brent on several different levels and had experience of the type of boss he portrayed.

My only complaint is that he never comes to play a gig here though:mad:

Creature

The Office and Extras are great but any of his stand up I've seen has been terrible.

Lockstep

Comic Genius.

allybhoy

Genius, His speech in Big brother in the xmas special of Extras was absolute brilliant..........although Karl Pilkington is funnier without meaning it.

Kold

His standup is great but his shows suck.

Thrill

Irksome little tit for me.

kaimera

tit.

that simpsons ep was one of the worst episodes..ever.

Affable

Thrill wrote: »

Irksome little tit for me.

He's had some good moments and is clever, but I tend to agree these days. overexposure usually sets in.

thecutter

Absolute Genius,

From The Office, to Extra's (My personal Fav!) And his stand up.... always has me in bits!! Pure brilliance!

Loopy

I think he's a legend. Loved the office, much better than extras imo

Defenestrate

The Office is a classic, Extras was great too although the last episode was a bit of an anti-climax.

Homer

Defenestrate wrote: »

The Office is a classic, Extras was great too although the last episode was a bit of an anti-climax.

See.. it's all very subjective! I thought the last episode of extras was superb!

In general anything he touches turns to comedy gold which means the "majority" of the TV watching population find him funny?
So if you don't.. You're wrong.. simple as!


/awaits the angry backlash

Affable

industria wrote: »

See.. it's all very subjective! I thought the last episode of extras was superb!

In general anything he touches turns to comedy gold which means the "majority" of the TV watching population find him funny?
So if you don't.. You're wrong.. simple as!


/awaits the angry backlash

The majority like also like Only Fools, Birds of a Feather, and Vicar of Dibley.

funkycat83

Affable wrote: »

irksome little tit

Nuff said....

elmolesto

Deffo genius

humberklog

George Michael fly tipping Annie Lennox's fridge freezer into Stuart Copeland's skip. Brilliant.
Radio show, stand up on the 11o'clock show, office, extras(personal fav.)and his stand up tours I found all of them funny,funny,funny.
And my daughter likes his Flanimal books. Unparralled genius.
Simpson episode?...Not good...so what?

aidan_walsh

When he's good he's good, when he's bad he is bowel implodingly painful.

thelordofcheese

Chronically unfunny.

the whole year inn

well I hate the sight of the guy ,Watched loads of the office , I prefer the us office, his stand up is terrible!

Davidius

From what I've seen he's terrible.

Heisenberg.

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Brolly

Can't stand him. Smurky wee git!

Peared

One of the few comedians who can have me in wheezy, tears streaming, pain in the chest fits of laughter.

The bottle of water scene in Extras. Genius.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

He's a brilliant comedian, but in interviews, just arrogant and irksome.

DetectivFoxtrot

Poll it.:cool:


comic genius

Terry

DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »

Poll it.:cool:


comic genius

Done.

Sherifu

The Office = Gold = Segment with Patrcik Stewart on Extras.

DetectivFoxtrot

Sherifu wrote: »

The Office = Gold = Segment with Patrcik Stewart on Extras.

Terry wrote: »

Done.

why thank ya kind sir

murfo

any sign of someone sharing the season 5 podcasts?

Wagon

A gob****e.

tallus

Never liked the office, but Extras was bloody brilliant. Loved every embarassing episode!

GAAman

I think its funny that terry misspelled thread and i thought it said "hatred" because thats how i feel about gervais and his "comedy"

Would rather take a cheese grater to my balls then listen to anything of his

togster

"Karl pilkington has a head like a fcuking orange."

He's a legend simple as....

humanji

He's like Ali G. Seemed hilarious at the time, but ran his course and been passed by funnier people.

Sherifu

murfo wrote: »

any sign of someone sharing the season 5 podcasts?

Here ya go. Link

Adam

absolutely hilarious, i love him.

he might be a wanker, but he's a bloody funny wanker.

togster

murfo wrote: »

any sign of someone sharing the season 5 podcasts?

Yeah.

heres te link www.itunes.com

Nehaxak

I subscribe to his podcasts and enjoy them an awful lot. Very hard at times to stifle the laughs while listening on the bus to work
Prefer the voice podcasts rather than the video ones though.

Howard the Duck

I find him very funny. But i think Stephen Merchants charactor in extras was much funnier then Gervias's Charactor. I think both of them are excellent comedy writers and they work very well together.
I think i prefer Extras to the Office purely for the Merchant charactor

elmolesto

Comic Genius.

LCDeelite

I think he's the stuff of comic genius myself. 'Awkward humour' is horrifically underrated. He's well able to poke fun at himself too.

Chong

Sherifu wrote: »

Here ya go. Link

I think you're full of ****e tbh.

tech77

LCDeelite wrote: »

He's well able to poke fun at himself too.

That's so true.
Remember the Oggmonster scene in the office- Merchant and himself trading insults about their physical appearance, Merchant calling him fat and pudgy IIRC (admittedly Merchant stole the scene talking about his own bulbous eyes though...LOL).

So even though it's probably fashionable at this stage to say he's a prick, IMO he's still a comic genius, always has been.

He comes across as decent, grounded, thoughtful and very witty in any of his interviews i've heard.

Sherifu

Mr. X wrote: »

I think you're full of ****e tbh.

Believe it.

ven0m

Ricky's brand of sardonic humour is classic, but what akes it for me is the podcasts with himself & Steve Merchant with the bald headed head like a ****ing orange manc twat that is Karl Pilkington LOL

Roll on the new series of BodCasts - woohooooo!!!!!!


I love his blog posts recently about London gossip columnists & what they wrote about him & his clarification that he called someone a C-You-Next-Tuesday & not 'stupid' as the columnist wrote LOL

Ricky comes across as super grounded & is very VERY quick to put the media in their place, which is why they love to hate him & he loves to hate them too & use them where & how he sees fit ...... he's a genius when it comes to playing them at their own game.

THIS IS TAKEN FROM RICKY'S BLOG:

Hello. Look at this ****...

Is Ricky counting the calories?
All that time in Hollywood appears to have got Ricky Gervais flustered about his weight. On Tuesday evening, a mole spotted the star of The Office dining in The Ivy restaurant in central London, where he seemed to be adhering to a strict new dieting regime.
"Ricky was with his partner and a couple of friends and kept making these noises and telling them how jealous he was whenever their food arrived," I'm told.
"Meanwhile, he just picked away at a bit of salad. Then he had a fruit salad for pudding. I can only assume that he ordered involuntarily, as he spent most of his time eating it while gawping at my frozen berries in chocolate sauce."
pandora@independent.co.uk

That was in The Independent. THE INDEPENDENT! It's a column by Henry Deedes.

OK, so yes, I was at The Ivy with my partner and a couple of friends on Tuesday evening. And yes, I did have a fruit salad.

So am I flustered about my weight?

Not really.

Is it all the time I've been spending in Hollywood that has made me flustered about my weight?

Well no, I told you, I'm not flustered about my weight.

So am I adhering to a strict new dieting regime?

Well I'll let you be the judge.

Before I ate my fruit salad I had, as a starter, deep-fried scampi. I followed that with a Thai green curry. With rice. And bread (there was some delicious creamy coconut sauce left that needed soaking up).

Then I had my fruit salad. With ice cream, by the way.

What sort of sad **** watches someone eat a meal and then phones in selected highlights to a newspaper?

I'll tell you. The **** that was sitting next to our table who kept trying to strike up conversations with us about the food.

I'd say her name, but I don't know it. She knows mine of course. I'm on the telly. So she mentioned it when she phoned in the hot scoop to the press. It wouldn't have been such an important story if she had just called and said, "Hi Henry, it's your cunty friend. I'm at The Ivy and someone, with someone else and a couple of friends, is eating fruit. Thought you could mention it it your Pandora's Box column."

I love the bit when the nosey old bitch says, "I can only assume he ordered involuntarily." What sort of weird, unwanted pudding Tourette's is that? And wasn't she listening at that point? Ooooohhh! Call yourself a supergrass? Concentrate. Henry needs info.

I don't mind if The Independent know everything I've ever eaten.

But don't say things like I must be trying to lose weight because of Hollywood. It's not true. If you have trouble filling the newspaper, use a bigger font. Print a poem. Leave a space. Ask me. I'll tell you what I've eaten that day.

Dave!

I wouldn't call him a "genius", but I certainly think he's funny.......