Ricky Gervais on The Simpsons

meldrew · 2006-04-22 16:01:50

Just a heads up , the episode written by and starring Ricky Gervais is on Sky One tomorrow night at half six , they played a piece on the radio today and it sounds hilarious , he was singing a song to Marge and the lyrics were brilliant .

22-04-2006 05:01PM

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Just a heads up , the episode written by and starring Ricky Gervais is on Sky One tomorrow night at half six , they played a piece on the radio today and it sounds hilarious , he was singing a song to Marge and the lyrics were brilliant .

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#2 22-04-2006 06:48PM

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The Simpsons hasn't been funny in years,and one hit wonder Gervais won't make it any better. The Office was quite brilliant,but how much of it was really down to him? His stand up comedy is just terrible and I stopped watching Extra's after giving it 4 episodes,it was that bad.

Just my opinion

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#3 22-04-2006 06:54PM

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tvnutz wrote:

The Simpsons hasn't been funny in years,and one hit wonder Gervais won't make it any better. The Office was quite brilliant,but how much of it was really down to him? His stand up comedy is just terrible and I stopped watching Extra's after giving it 4 episodes,it was that bad.

Just my opinion

I agree about Xtras but his stand up is brilliant. Have you seen animals and politics? Genius...

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#4 22-04-2006 07:07PM

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Yep,saw both of them,thought they were terrible,maybe laughed once or twice.

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#5 22-04-2006 07:12PM

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Lets hope the episode is not as annoying as the ads.

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#6 22-04-2006 07:13PM

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tvnutz wrote:

The Simpsons hasn't been funny in years,and one hit wonder Gervais won't make it any better. The Office was quite brilliant,but how much of it was really down to him? His stand up comedy is just terrible and I stopped watching Extra's after giving it 4 episodes,it was that bad.

Just my opinion

Imo, it was practically all down to him, although he can be annoying sometimes. He is kind of like a child.

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#7 22-04-2006 08:55PM

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Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Imo, it was practically all down to him, although he can be annoying sometimes. He is kind of like a child.

That is another thing that annoys me about him,he is like a child,and as I said,not funny either. Those ads on Sky One are really annoying.

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#8 22-04-2006 08:57PM

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Saw it a few weeks ago. I expected good things (anything would be better than the current writing team), but it was pretty bad. A couple more laughs than normal (for a total of 2), but that was it.

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#9 22-04-2006 09:01PM

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anyone know what epesode of the season 17 it is?

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#10 22-04-2006 09:05PM

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15 (Homer Simpson, This is your Wife)

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#11 22-04-2006 09:06PM

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I wouldnt bother, its terrible.

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#12 22-04-2006 09:10PM

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Nothing worth changing your schedule for at all. Mediocre at best.

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#13 22-04-2006 09:17PM

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zabbo wrote:

Lets hope the episode is not as annoying as the ads.

Hear hear.

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#14 22-04-2006 11:29PM

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i watched this episode last night and thought it was very average. nothing really funny at all, Shame really after all the hype there has been since he was asked to do the thing in the first place.

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#15 23-04-2006 12:27AM

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wow really surprised to learn so many people don't like extras or the standup.. i think his standup is brilliant, so much better than the other comedians knocking around at the moment. and extras was brilliant! although he has that kind of childish wry type of humour, so i do understand why people wouldn't really find it funny!

lookin forward to this, if it is funny it'll be better than any simpsons episodes i've seen for the past few years!

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#16 23-04-2006 12:37AM

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Jeez I thought this was going to be good no point in watching it so !

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#17 23-04-2006 12:46AM

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i think it will be funny! a lot better than the new simpsons episodes...

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#18 23-04-2006 12:50AM

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I hear its going out live....?

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#19 23-04-2006 11:27AM

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Nothing can save the simpsons now...

Just refer you to a thread I started on the very subject:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054857603&highlight=disintergration+of+the+simpsons

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#20 23-04-2006 11:30AM

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Ever notice that people on boards hate everything. If I want an opinion about a TV programme, Film or any kind of music, this is the last place I'll look. Too many people trying to be cool.

Extras, by the way, was brilliant.

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#21 23-04-2006 11:55AM

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fade2black wrote:

Ever notice that people on boards hate everything. If I want an opinion about a TV programme, Film or any kind of music, this is the last place I'll look. Too many people trying to be cool.

Extras, by the way, was brilliant.

I'm afraid I can't agree with that at all! I thought Extra's was poor, but maybe it was too "Gervais" if you get what I mean. I'd already seen every episode of The Office twice or three times and I'd seen the Animals DVD and went see Politics live. And loved it all.

Extra's seemed to offer nothing new (to me anyway), which might be why I didn't enjoy it as much. I'd still watch it over most of todays "comedy" but it certainly wasn't brilliant (again, in my opinion).

As for The Simpsons episode, I watched it and don't recall laughing more than twice. I certainly wasn't trying to be cool when I said I didn't like it, just my honest opinion having seen the episode.

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#22 23-04-2006 12:04PM

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I watched this last night.

I agree with the other posters, it was not funny.

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#23 23-04-2006 12:05PM

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I'm a big fan of Stephen Merchant..to be honest, I think Gervais in real life is quite annoying but gives a great performance in Extras. The Patrick Stewart episode for instance was quality. At least I thought so anyway...

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#24 23-04-2006 06:58PM

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Just watched it there, and yes, it was very unfunny.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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#25 23-04-2006 06:59PM

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omfg, the worst bit of simpsons I've seen in a long long time.

A few cheap laughs but mother of god that was horrible to watch :mad:

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#26 23-04-2006 07:00PM

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byte wrote:

Just watched it there, and yes, it was very unfunny.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Muaha, I knw I made the correct decision leaving th tv in gathering dust...

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#27 23-04-2006 07:02PM

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It was terrible. It was over before it started!

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#28 23-04-2006 07:03PM

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Had it's moments.

1) Homer diving on the couch to the tune of sprach zarathrusta and

2) his discription of Patty as "cousin it used to be a man".

That was about it.

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#29 23-04-2006 07:05PM

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Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Muaha, I knw I made the correct decision leaving th tv in gathering dust...

Same. Sudoku or Simpsons, I chose the former. That's how bad it's gotten.

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#30 23-04-2006 07:05PM

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"Cousin It there was born a woman"

Ricky's song started out fun but then was so crappy....

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#31 23-04-2006 07:06PM

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What a big pile of overhyped shít.
Didn't even smile, let alone laugh.
I liked the Office and Extras, but it just doesn't work outside of that context... his standup is also a bit yawn. :rolleyes:
What a disaster of an episode... the two before it bored the arse off me aswell.
In a word - stale.

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