tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post2739676406367117844..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Ricky GervaisBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80730817135443882432009-02-24T07:56:00.000+00:002009-02-24T07:56:00.000+00:00I love Ricky Gervais - just wanted to let you know...I love Ricky Gervais - just wanted to let you know ;D <BR/><BR/>http://www.the1000000project.blogspot.com/The 1.000.000 Projecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12883236003770967229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-12100413744207762612009-02-23T13:47:00.000+00:002009-02-23T13:47:00.000+00:00Did you hear Walliams on Desert Island Discs, malt...Did you hear Walliams on Desert Island Discs, malty?<BR/><BR/>Chose a gun as his luxury. It was really quite shocking.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-70468087666767654892009-02-23T11:20:00.000+00:002009-02-23T11:20:00.000+00:00It ain't that often I read the same piece three ti...It ain't that often I read the same piece three times but this I did / had to. First time I got the nub, the second his brouhaha the third contradicted the first and second. By the end of the interview you had as sure as apples is apples peeled back the veneer.<BR/>Comic genius ? only time will judge, there have been flashes of pathos verging on genius, the ending of the extras series. The rest ?maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-71227207815837468632009-02-22T20:44:00.000+00:002009-02-22T20:44:00.000+00:00Hi BryanI've read you for a long time but never po...Hi Bryan<BR/><BR/>I've read you for a long time but never posted here before. I'm listening to Bob Dylan now - a passion developed because you wrote such a great article on him around the time of Scorsese's No Direction Home.<BR/><BR/>Anyway - just finished the Ricky Gervais one. He's always left me a bit cold as I don't usually enjoy humour based on people's misfortunes and general ineptitudesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-67660045766758131712009-02-22T20:02:00.000+00:002009-02-22T20:02:00.000+00:00Great article, though kinda long (for me -- I'm in...Great article, though kinda long (for me -- I'm in truncated-attention-span mode today, which means I'll never get through the Oscars tonight). I think Gervais is brilliant, though not so much funny as....Squirm inducing. In fact, I believe that is just what you called him. I used to watch the British "Office," but it made me feel so sorry for his character and so uncomfortable as a viewer of hisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-10983242272515681812009-02-22T17:09:00.000+00:002009-02-22T17:09:00.000+00:00And what was it all about?One wonders.<I>And what was it all about?</I><BR/><BR/>One wonders.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-90542967186341474152009-02-22T16:37:00.000+00:002009-02-22T16:37:00.000+00:00Great interview, but I wonder who possesses the gr...Great interview, but I wonder who possesses the greater comedic talent, Gervais or Merchant ? Would Gervais have been able to release his undoubted brilliance if he had never met his beanpole mate? Of course, we'll never know, but did he touch on any debt owed to Merchant? It doesn't emerge in the article. You've given us the almost definitive Gervais, Bryan; any chance of the almost definitive John Halliwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901514854360709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-11849773210963858682009-02-22T13:11:00.000+00:002009-02-22T13:11:00.000+00:00Great, great interview, by the way, Bryan. Up ther...Great, great interview, by the way, Bryan. Up there with your best, along with Monica B.<BR/><BR/>I've sat and watched Gervais in the DVD extras on Extras or the Office, bemused and sometimes appalled by his inexplicable behaviour. You have definitely shed some light.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-77142631611314234882009-02-22T11:22:00.000+00:002009-02-22T11:22:00.000+00:00Jokes, Mark? He's post-jokes.Jokes, Mark? <BR/><BR/>He's post-jokes.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-26631292561436433992009-02-22T08:49:00.000+00:002009-02-22T08:49:00.000+00:00I've tried to get on with Ricky Gervais' act but h...I've tried to get on with Ricky Gervais' act but his material leaves me blank. I've never laughed at a single one of his jokes. This usually puts me in a good mood, the feeling of a job well done. Why bother with a half-funny comedian when you can have a totally unfunny one instead. Is it just me or are others also baffled?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-35496064305158181522009-02-21T22:42:00.000+00:002009-02-21T22:42:00.000+00:00Nick, how do you renoncile being a socialist and a...Nick, how do you renoncile being a socialist and a supporter of free trade?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-83963523719083075542009-02-21T18:41:00.000+00:002009-02-21T18:41:00.000+00:00Blimey, that took all of 48 minutes, strong sense ...Blimey, that took all of 48 minutes, strong sense of survival I sense.<BR/>When push comes to shove Nick, it is my personal opinion that your writing is of the highest order, your take on reality is without peer, despite your wonky CV.<BR/>But what the fuck do I knowmaltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-85363869284027838142009-02-21T18:21:00.000+00:002009-02-21T18:21:00.000+00:00Malty stop right there at page 12. You don't have ...Malty stop right there at page 12. You don't have to read it. You just have to buy it. I may be greedy but I'm not a sadist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43511790792965882502009-02-21T17:33:00.000+00:002009-02-21T17:33:00.000+00:00Just read as far as page 12 of the Etonians, Cohen...Just read as far as page 12 of the Etonians, Cohen, you ma man, even though you wouldn't recognise what I know to be working class if it fell on your napper from 30,000 ft.<BR/>In the interests of impartiality, I will tomorrow morning buy the observer as well as the Times, if the hype is rose tinted the Guha pusha can go screw himself.<BR/>PS, The Extras = poetry in motion and true, true, true.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43986195805766430842009-02-21T16:37:00.000+00:002009-02-21T16:37:00.000+00:00Oh, I love R.G. (my second favorite brit actor aft...Oh, I love R.G. (my second favorite brit actor after B.N. -- Bill Nighy to you!). I shall certainly link & drink it in....danke, Bry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-37298828629045838372009-02-21T16:10:00.000+00:002009-02-21T16:10:00.000+00:00Well if it's a straight physical scrap we're talki...Well if it's a straight physical scrap we're talking about, my money's on Cohen - he'd be quicker to summon up the necessary beserker rage. <BR/><BR/>That said, Appleyard does have some shitkicking cowboy boots in his armoury which might be employed to good effect.<BR/><BR/>Nick you need a little link in your name, drive the punters to your blog.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-81320330943393421652009-02-21T14:30:00.000+00:002009-02-21T14:30:00.000+00:00Prostitutes the lot of you.So its Ricky (for cryin...Prostitutes the lot of you.<BR/><BR/>So its Ricky (for crying out loud what kind of mother calls their son Ricky? there is only one lower step to go ...Jamie)<BR/><BR/>Versus<BR/><BR/>SIR V.S. Naipaul (Do lefties always leave the Sir out? does the mind always tell?)<BR/><BR/>Will both of you be on tonight's Harry Hill?.........FIGHTSeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362169593902131947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-79137279869672337752009-02-21T13:39:00.000+00:002009-02-21T13:39:00.000+00:00Don't listen to him. Buy the Observer. It's got th...Don't listen to him. Buy the Observer. It's got the England cricket team, the ironies of post-colonialism, V.S. Naipaul and a list of 24 -- that's right 24 -- tax havens all in one column and, as an added extra, Ramachandra Guha!<BR/>What do you mean you've never heard of Ramachandra Guha?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80129798232163592922009-02-21T12:18:00.000+00:002009-02-21T12:18:00.000+00:00Did you ask him how he went from being crap to bei...Did you ask him how he went from being crap to being a genius with just one series of The Office?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-24068155183577955382009-02-21T10:20:00.000+00:002009-02-21T10:20:00.000+00:00er, do we even need that?er, do we even need that?Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.com