Sep 22 2008

Ricky Gervais Takes His Emmy Back

Published by at 5:24 pm under Blog

I hated The Office – I just didn’t get it, but I loved Extras. In stand-up Ricky Gervais is excellent and this clip from the Emmy’s Emmys yesterday is comedy gold. Maybe I’ll give The Office another go…

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13 Responses to “Ricky Gervais Takes His Emmy Back”

  1. # Darrenon 22 Sep 2008 at 5:26 pm

    And thank you Gary for sending me the link. 🙂

  2. # Benon 22 Sep 2008 at 6:24 pm

    The Office is classic stuff. Some of Jervais’s stand up is pretty good too!

  3. # le craicon 22 Sep 2008 at 7:15 pm

    I love the Office and Extras too. You should give it another go – it took me a few episodes to warm to it.

  4. # John Braineon 22 Sep 2008 at 11:21 pm

    Like LeCraic said… have you given it a few tries? I didn’t like it at first and got to love very quickly. Same happened with Father Ted and League of Gentlemen.

  5. # B'dum B'dum B'dum B'd-on 23 Sep 2008 at 12:50 am

    Give the office another chance.

    I love extras far more than most people, Keith Chegwin and Les Dennis are two of the funniest people ever.

    His stand-up is terrible though, the good bits of it are done far, far better on the xfm radio shows and podcasts.

    Series 1 of XFM is perhaps the funniest thing he ever done too, absolute gold once it gets flowing.
    http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Download:Xfm#Xfm_Series_1

  6. # B'dum B'dum B'dum B'd-on 23 Sep 2008 at 1:01 am

    also merchant>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>gervais, has a real gift for comic timing too… holds together the later podcasts and stuff when ricky and karl wear thin

  7. # Andrewon 23 Sep 2008 at 9:42 am

    “Emmy’s”, Darren? I expect Ricochet to hunt you down in his never ending persecution of the superfluous apostrophe.

    I really can’t believe you didn’t like The Office, you must not have given it a proper go at all. I have both series on DVD if you’d like to borrow them. You then need to watch the Christmas special as well to tie it all up. I love Extra too but it’s The Office that was a true mould-breaker.

  8. # Darrenon 23 Sep 2008 at 10:04 am

    @Andy Sorry about that awful faux pa’s. I’d love to get a loan of the box set’s if thats ok? Cheer’s! 🙂

  9. # Lottieon 23 Sep 2008 at 1:27 pm

    It’s fox paws Darren!

  10. # tcupon 23 Sep 2008 at 1:35 pm

    the office is brill, the bloke dance is so funny give it another go, def.

  11. # Sharonon 26 Sep 2008 at 9:27 am

    Great clip.

    I’m another one who loves The Office and has the DVDs. Gervais acts like a heartless ass but his writing has a lot of depth when you follow the characters over the series. I love how it ends in the Christmas specials, the final one makes me weepy every time.
    I love Extras too. The characterisations are great and some of the star turns were amazing, though some weren’t. The finale didn’t grab me so much though.

  12. # Gray Wrighton 01 Oct 2008 at 4:50 pm

    I too love Extras but never got The Office, this is comedy gold though. I love it when anyone injects something genuinely funny into stiff, starched awards ceremonies.

  13. # Darrenon 02 Oct 2008 at 5:22 pm

    @Tcup I will, I will. It better be good though.

    @Sharon Thanks for the comment. I actually have seen that last moment and I’ll agree, it was brilliant. An I didn’t even know the characters when I saw that.

    @Gray Thank you very much for the comment and welcome to the blogosphere.

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