Extras Christmas Special
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Is that on BBC.co.uk or is it a TV thing? If it is a TV thing I don't have anything apart from normal telly (ie - BBC1 / 2 , ITV and C4).
Albion Edd
Brighton til die
f***! Just giot in from work and I missed it!! And that is the only thing I wanted to watch over Christmas
Think it might be repeated on Sunday.
I enjoyed it not as funny as some of the other episodes, but ie was still really good, there was some hilrious stuff and I liked his speech at the end
Zesh Rehman
New member
They are both brilliant, i prefer the world of karl pilkington personally, but both are great!
Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
Best thing I've seen all year.
Hands down
Hands down
Gritt23
New member
I thought it was excellent, and the BB rant was superb!
Uncle Spielberg
Well-known member
The telly this Xmas has been WOEFUL so I had made an effort to watch this and it did not let me down. It was SUPERB. Not quite the heights of the Office Xmas special but that was probably the greatest ever tv comedy stand alone show (s). It was close though and I particularly liked his run in with Gordon Ramsey. It had many many excellent moments and had a message to it.
Gervais has come up with a corker and it was the best ever Extra's episode imho.
9.1
Gervais has come up with a corker and it was the best ever Extra's episode imho.
9.1
Meade's Ball
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I wondered if the joke was all about us watching it in the first place. An awfully unrealistic take on struggles in life that perhaps only the overly successful could see. The Big Brother pastiche was embarassingly bad to watch, and not because it was meant to make us feel so. Just that it was all so poorly researched and offered people no core to human suffering, no underbelly to the inedible steak of vapid failure, no shamefacedness to those who honestly lust for what they aren't skilled enough to achieve.
I suppose i admire sideways views of things, and this was as self-obsessedly MOR as i could bear myself to painedly see. Also just very unfunny. Apart from Merchant, who was humourous.
I suppose i admire sideways views of things, and this was as self-obsessedly MOR as i could bear myself to painedly see. Also just very unfunny. Apart from Merchant, who was humourous.
Uncle Spielberg
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Well I liked it but as with every thread ever on NSC there is always someone who bucks the trend trying to be superior and clever with some mumbo jumbo psycho babble
Meade's Ball
Well-known member
Hello US.
You and i have the opposite tastes, that's all. I found it a most vacuous undertaking, but i haven't enjoyed either of the series of Extras despite being a Gervais fan before. Just a bit egotistically uninventive, i thought.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
It was quality.
The George Michael bit was fantastic - serving community service for fly-tipping
"I was just helping Annie Lennox get rid of her old fridge-freezer in the skip down the road. f***ing Sting saw us and phoned the council."
And the bit where his new agent is trying to get him to shack up with some celebrity slapper. "You're a c-list celeb right now. You want to make the B-list don't you ?"
"Yeah, but not the Hepatitus B list"
Thats just great writing.
The George Michael bit was fantastic - serving community service for fly-tipping
"I was just helping Annie Lennox get rid of her old fridge-freezer in the skip down the road. f***ing Sting saw us and phoned the council."
And the bit where his new agent is trying to get him to shack up with some celebrity slapper. "You're a c-list celeb right now. You want to make the B-list don't you ?"
"Yeah, but not the Hepatitus B list"
Thats just great writing.
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Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Had it's moments last night. 8/10
It was QUALITY tv. The bit with the Guardian reporter round his house was toe-curlingly hard to watch, but very funny.
And the bit where he has his rant in the CBB house, and that slag threatens to follow him out of the show. "But the paperazzi are out there - just give me five mins to put on my bikini"
And the bit where he has his rant in the CBB house, and that slag threatens to follow him out of the show. "But the paperazzi are out there - just give me five mins to put on my bikini"
It was quality.
The George Michael bit was fantastic - serving community service for fly-tipping
"I was just helping Annie Lennox get rid of her old fridge-freezer in the skip down the road. f***ing Sting saw us and phoned the council."
And the bit where his new agent is trying to get him to shack up with some celebrity slapper. "You're a c-list celeb right now. You want to make the B-list don't you ?"
"Yeah, but not the Hepatitus B list"
Thats just great writing.
Spot on
Great stuff
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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I thought it was brilliant cutting-edge stuff, many back-of-the-net points about the nature of C-list celebrity. Not rip-roaringly funny, but fine intelligent comedy nonetheless. Mind you, I thought the dream-sequence episode of Holby City earlier in the evening was riveting also, so what do I know? 
Adam Virgo's Shirt
I took Adam's shirt off!
I agree with Easy 10, but in my mind they were the only funny parts of it!
I much preferred Graham Norton on Boxing Day. Russell Brand talking to some sex chat line in character as Aladdin was HILARIOUS!
I much preferred Graham Norton on Boxing Day. Russell Brand talking to some sex chat line in character as Aladdin was HILARIOUS!