Ricky Gervais: shit or not shit?

[Thimble Queen]

Loved the Office, Xfm was good, but that was more down to Merchant than Gervais.

Seems that mostly when it's rehearsed it's shit, but can be quite funny on the hoof.

Karl Pilkington cracks me up tho, but I expect if I saw more of him I'd tire of his one-trick too.

KP is funny. I thought he did his round the world series (can't remember the name) really well. He was close to the line a lot of times, managed very well not to cross it and still be incredibly funny.

I watched Asian Provocateur recently with Romesh Ranganathan, it's similar but miles funnier that KP imo.. It probably doesn't have the same mass appeal as KP tho.

 

[chilango]

Re-watching The Office over the last few nights it seems that his schtick in Life on the Road is far crasser, and the bigotry is played far more for laughs than it was originally - less laughing at, and more laughing with, Brent's racism/sexism/homophobia/ablism etc.

 

[Virtual Blue]

He seems dated now.

 

[zoooo]

KP is funny. I thought he did his round the world series (can't remember the name) really well. He was close to the line a lot of times, managed very well not to cross it and still be incredibly funny.

I watched Asian Provocateur recently with Romesh Ranganathan, it's similar but miles funnier that KP imo.. It probably doesn't have the same mass appeal as KP tho.

I bloody love Romesh.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I bloody love Romesh.

He's great. His mum is brilliant. I love the way she rips on him so savagely but without being actually properly mean, just matter of fact. Thumbs from me.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

You have to wonder if David Brent and Ricky Gervais are entirely separate entities. I strongly suspect not.

 

[neonwilderness]

He's better when working with Stephen Merchant (I don't think he was involved with Life on the Road).

The Office, Extras and the Karl Pilkington stuff are all brilliant.

 

[Casual Observer]

Life's Too Short was good too, as were The Office and Extras of course. I'd give Life On The Road 5 or 6 out of 10 - a couple of very funny moments but not very good apart from that. Going back a bit, Cemetery Junction was good too - not funny and wasn't meant to be but a good film about growing up in the 70s. Haven't seen Derek or any of his other films.

 

[emanymton]

I've hard more amusing bouts of diarrhea.

 

[Reiabuzz]

I have to admit I saw the first episode of the office when it screened and both me and my flatmate thought it was a documentary. Smoking a lot of weed in those days. And had a dodgy tv. Those are my excuses.

It's undeniably brilliant though. As are most of his toe curling awards ceremony gigs.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Worse than Hitler!

 

[bimble]

Confirmation that those who voted 'shit' were right.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Confirmation that those who voted 'shit' were right.
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To be fair that perhaps is a bit misleading? It looks like a fan congratulating him on his show and him replying ''cheers". I didn't know who that guy was until yesterday.
I could be wrong of course, but without any other information that's all there is to go on.

 

[bimble]

You're a much kinder person than me ATOMIC SUPLEX .
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A bit more background: YouTuber found guilty of hate crime for teaching pet pug 'Nazi salute'

 

[bemused]

I watched hi Netflix thing over the weekend it was quite funny.

 

[maomao]

I watched the first twenty minutes of his Netflix thing and would like to punch the horrible cunt in his face till it's nothing but a bloody unrecognisable pulp.

 

[cheesethief]

If I were stuck in a room with Ricky Gervais & Michael McIntyre and I had a gun with 2 bullets, I'd shoot myself in the head twice - the chance of missing one of them would be just too awful to contemplate.

 

[maomao]

If I were stuck in a room with Ricky Gervais & Michael McIntyre and I had a gun with 2 bullets, I'd shoot myself in the head twice - the chance of missing one of them would be just too awful to contemplate.

Stun them with pistol whips and kick them to death. Then defile the bodies with the two bullets.

 

[maomao]

Stun them with pistol whips and kick them to death. Then defile the bodies with the two bullets.

Though tbf McIntyre doesn't do kids with cancer jokes so I might just shoot Gervais twice.

 

[cybershot]

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[cybershot]

Confirmation that those who voted 'shit' were right.
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You have to appreciate he will often use twitter to shit stir, a simple cheers here probably got the reaction he intended from people such as yourself.

 

[bimble]

You have to appreciate he will often use twitter to shit stir, a simple cheers here probably got the reaction he intended from people such as yourself.

I doubt he cares much what I think, his whole appeal always been a total mystery to me.

 

[maomao]

You have to appreciate he will often use twitter to shit stir, a simple cheers here probably got the reaction he intended from people such as yourself.

The problem is that when 'I'm just being a cunt to wind you up' becomes your whole life's work then you just are a cunt. What is Gervais' redeeming feature?

 

[cybershot]

The problem is that when 'I'm just being a cunt to wind you up' becomes your whole life's work then you just are a cunt. What is Gervais' redeeming feature?

He does petitions against animal cruelty.

 

[joustmaster]

Just because a joke is offensive doesn't mean it's not funny.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I've no idea what he is like now, but I did know him briefly before super stardom. At the time he was acting the 'cunt' on TV and as his stand up, but in real life he was quiet and not all full of himself at all.

 

[skyscraper101]

Usually like Gervais but his most recent standup show on Netflix was probably the worst material I've ever seen.

 

[joustmaster]

Usually like Gervais but his most recent standup show on Netflix was probably the worst material I've ever seen.

Worst as in poorly out together or worst as in too offensive?

 

[maomao]

Just because a joke is offensive doesn't mean it's not funny.

There has to be a point. Frankie Boyle gets away with it on his later stuff because he lets it contribute to a point. Boyle's early stuff, like Gervais is just offensive for the sake of it. If your whole act is 'look at what a cunt I can be' then you are just a pointless cunt.

 

[mod]

The Office and Extras were fantastic IMO.