The Ricky Gervais Show : your opinions?

unwashed potato! · 24 Apr 2010 at 18:17

Margaret said:
Protip: If you have friends you often learn how they would react to things, then you can say stuff to provoke these reactions.

Go get some friends.

protip: if you're on t.v and you know that preparing the show to give "unscripted" comedy events will increase it's popularity, then you do that.

as you've said with friends you learn how they react, yet ricky and stephen "act" surprised at his reaction.

Hunders · 24 Apr 2010 at 18:20

Top Gear is completely scripted. In fact Top Gear is scripted much more so than this is but it doesn't stop it from being entertainment though.

CliffyBiro · 24 Apr 2010 at 18:21

Love it personally. But I hate Gervais, and he very nearly ruins the radio shows and these tv shows.

Pilkington is a genius.

SexyGreyFox · 24 Apr 2010 at 18:23

I feel sorry for the idiots who actually think Karl is thick when Stevie Wonder can see it is scripted.
Karl is actually a very clever comedian with two stooges.

ElliorR · 24 Apr 2010 at 18:34

dmpoole said:
I feel sorry for the idiots who actually think Karl is thick when Stevie Wonder can see it is scripted.
Karl is actually a very clever comedian with two stooges.

So Karl is the Keyser Soze of the threesome?

SexyGreyFox · 24 Apr 2010 at 18:49

ElliorR said:
So Karl is the Keyser Soze of the threesome?

I can't be bothered looking up those words but it is quite clear that it is scripted.
I remember listening to the xfm podcasts and it was the second one where I got what was happening.
Still very funny though

Hunders · 24 Apr 2010 at 19:56

Personally, I really don't think its all an act.

Here's a little clip for people who watched/listened to the first podcast which featured the flies and condom...

MrMacca · 24 Apr 2010 at 20:15

Hunders said:
Personally, I really don't think its all an act.

Here's a little clip for people who watched/listened to the first podcast which featured the flies and condom...
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Loved it lol. Weird aint it!

I always listen to the podcasts when travelling. The time just dissapears and the number of times I'll just be sat there chuckling to myself, trying not to look too weird as previously mentioned here.

atpbx · 24 Apr 2010 at 20:24

dmpoole said:
I can't be bothered looking up those words but it is quite clear that it is scripted.
I remember listening to the xfm podcasts and it was the second one where I got what was happening.
Still very funny though

Karl isnt that clever, as for not knowing what/who is Keyser Soze, have you been living in a hermetically sealed prog rock time capsule for the past 15 years?

dannyjo22 · 24 Apr 2010 at 20:32

I thought it was ok, I'd rather have watched the film of them sat around a reording studio than the cartoons and it's scripted but moments still made me laugh.

Slightly above average but I don't see this supposed genius in the pilkington bloke, it's just someone over playing stupidity.

JBuk · 24 Apr 2010 at 21:59

atpbx said:
have you been living in a hermetically sealed prog rock time capsule for the past 15 years?

27 yrs iirc

illogik · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:09

Ricky Gervais is the most overrated, not-at-all-funny comedian ever.

CliffyBiro · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:12

illogik said:
Ricky Gervais is the most overrated, not-at-all-funny comedian ever.

Yep.

Digitalle · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:14

DoubleCheese said:
...not sure I liked it, as I already had a mental image of them in the sudio doing the shows....

This. Its all classic material from the XFM-shows/podcasts regurgitated into cartoon form to reach out to the masses. I disliked it when I first watched it months back, and nothing changed when I watched it last night.

scorza · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:20

Love the Karl Pilkington stuff, don't mind Gervais/Merchant at all (wierdly, I can't stand The Office though). Thought the Ricky Gervais show animations were alright.

ChroniC · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:24

I cant ever believe listening to these or watching them, that Ricky finds all the stuff as funny as it is. His laugh is so irritating, that I have to turn it off.

MrMacca · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:37

illogik said:
Ricky Gervais is the most overrated, not-at-all-funny comedian ever.

I've seen Michael Macintyre, John Bishop and Ricky Gervais live, and Gervais wiped the floor with both of them.

I think he is extremely clever and funny, and I feel that many people that do not like him it is partly based on their thoughts that he is arrogant. Whereas I know that is just part of his act.

Digitalle · 24 Apr 2010 at 22:58

dmpoole said:
I feel sorry for the idiots who actually think Karl is thick when Stevie Wonder can see it is scripted.

Cannot quite believe I missed this first time round. Although I already have have my suspicions on how much bulk (or lack thereof) there is to back up is statement, could you please elaborate?

Tummy · 24 Apr 2010 at 23:36

illogik said:
Ricky Gervais is the most overrated, not-at-all-funny comedian ever.

jakeke · 25 Apr 2010 at 03:13

Karl isn't a character, there's loads of stories of people who've met him in everyday life and they say he isn't putting it on. Also, Merchant and Gervais said if they had created such a great character why would they waste him on a poxy radio show on xfm?

He's obviously changed over the years and sometimes becomes a parody of himself recently, but in the earlier podcasts he was brilliant, still one of the most entertaining celebrities (?) in the world to me, so I don't mind