Search results

I'm the opposite, but then, like him, I'm a lefty, Guardian reading snowflake.

You're completely wrong on this one. Check out his out of stage character comments on Rob Brydon's podcast. Brydon asks him about denigrating other comedians on stage and he explains that some of it is to serve the arrogant stage persona, but he is very very clear about Afterlife. The whole...

Afterlife is absolutely terrible. Actually worse than Derek. Gervais' character wanders about being self obsessed and unpleasant whilst loads of straw men appear just to give the character opportunities to express the real Gervais's views on the world. Everyone around him is treated awfully...

To be fair to John Cleese, it's taken him over 40 years to get around to ruining the Fawlty Towers legacy. Derek was only nine years after The Office.

Similarly I've been going to see him regularly since catching him as Sadowitz's support act in 1990. I did read other long term fans saying they were a bit disappointed too. Snowflake/Tornado was the tour interrupted by lockdown*, so may have been impacted. It didn't hang together as...

Tornado or Snowflake? Saw them both live and have seen the York recordings too. Both brilliant on the night. Loved his perfect description of 'After Life' in Tornado. The 'saying the unsayable' bit in Snowflake didn't come across as well in the recorded version as it did live. It didn't...

I'm aware of the circumstances. My comparison was based only on Lee's executors seeking a cash in on an inferior product because it had a ready made audience of millions who loved the superior one.

Unless you know hardly anybody under 30, I suspect that this isn't true. Loved 'Rock Profiles' and the early 'Little Britain' stuff, but by the second TV series it was just catch phrases being delivered in slightly different scenarios. It ended up relying more and more heavily on shock tactics...

Go Set A Watchman