I still think the podcasts are up there with the very best things he has done.
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[TV] After life
- Thread starter BRIGHT ON Q
- Start date
I still think the podcasts are up there with the very best things he has done.
Dick Swiveller
Well-known member
- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,156
Always amazes me the amount of people who equate character to comedian. Having never met the man, I have no idea if he is a dick or not but his comedic persona has always been smug and arrogant. I did hear his Desert Island Discs and he actually came across completely differently. Maybe it was an act but if it was, he should use that acting style more often as it is more convincing than his usual straight acting.
Same as Jack Dee is miserable whilst in character but presumably not so in real life. Miranda Hart presumably doesn't fall over with her skirt falling off every time she leaves the house. It is likely that they are playing caricatures of themselves so may have these traits in smaller measures.
Jimmy Carr is the perfect example for me. I have listened to a couple of candid interviews with him - the best being the Comedian's comedian podcast. He explains his process, rationale and persona whilst coming across in a more self effacing way. (And yes, I know tax blah blah)
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
He peaked at Extras. Derek was just wrong.
I thought Derek was great! If you mean wrong in terms of the character he played, Derek was the good guy!
Wrong-Direction
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,422
The establishment does a great job at that!
As for Ricky, the office, extras, his first few stand ups were cracking, slowly getting fed up of him though but will give after life a go..
Sent from my SM-A600FN using Tapatalk
Same. Many reviewers said that it did not know whether to be a comedy or a drama. Why can't it be both? I thought it was superb, actually gets better on second or third viewing too.
Wrong-Direction
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,422
Falmer Flutter ©
Well-known member
God, I remember that. Set in Bristol wasn't it? Incredible dark drama.
I can't watch The Office because I don't like cringe comedy (I have watched chunks of several episodes, and maybe the odd one all the way through). I know it's funny, I know Gervaise is funny. I just can't bear to watch it sometimes.
Same with Alan Partridge (although I have watched a lot of that over the years, I'd still regularly have to switch off part way through an episode) and Borat.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
I don't care if he was the good guy, and I watched a fair few of them. He was playing someone (badly) with a learning disability, it was excruciating and bewildering. I dig out difficult subjects in sitcoms like Flowers but this was bad bad judgement.
It's not just you ...... I've never got RG either .... particularly the office. Small nugget of triva about the office though .... Mrs W went to school with Martin Freeman and still chats with him occasionaly on Facebook.
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Understand Brent is deliberately annoying, so does Gervais play that character all the time or is that HIS personality.
Thought it was rather funny judging by first episode. Some chucklesome bits.
Lyndhurst 14
Well-known member
- Jan 16, 2008
- 5,129
Not a great fan of Gervaise but like some of his stuff, also liked it when he annoyed a lot of Americans a few years ago when he hosted the Golden Globes.
A lot of people, from all walks of life, 'get' Shakespeare - and 400 years on he's as relevant as he was then
Found the heroin scene in Episode 2 rather disturbing. I hope this doesn’t go too far down that road.
Curious about this, but not confident going into it. I think his TV stuff has been a rule of diminishing returns since the split from Stephen Merchant.
His stuff with Merchant always seemed to have more believable dialogue, and the more emotional parts were always more subtle and nuanced.
His stuff with Merchant always seemed to have more believable dialogue, and the more emotional parts were always more subtle and nuanced.
I've definitely known a couple of Gareths who said they can't stand The Office.
Comedically it was superb. Kev is one of my favourite people ever and they use Karl well in S1, shame he's replaced by that absolute humour vacuum in S2.
But some of the more serious dramatic parts of Derek had unbelievably clumsy, patronising writing. Suddenly someone has smeared vaseline on the lens and the sad piano is playing to tell you to feel sad - that's X Factor levels of cloying. It's also bizarrely reminiscent of the sort of Comic Relief bits that RG would take the piss out of.
A couple of the "sad" bits hit the mark but some of them really don't. Don't get me wrong, I really wanted it to be good, and the humour is great, but I think it sorely missed Stephen Merchant's input to be seen as close to The Office or Extras.
DavidRyder
Well-known member
- Jul 23, 2013
- 2,885
And the award for 'Most Original Excuse' goes to....!