. . . White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits. Said for good luck but sadly too late for the Arts thread which has hit the dust again. Shame!!!

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Originally posted by Occasional Visitor:
Apparently, Richard was on last week's "Extras".
Did anyone see it ?

They were both on Extras.
To set the scene: RG (Ricky) had offended the mother of a boy in a restaurant. The boy, who had his back to them, was playing a computer game and RG complained, not realising the boy had Down's syndrome. All the tabloids went mad and RG had to present the boy with an X-box and promise to give half his fee from a film he was doing to charity.

Next scene: RG's tall sidekick agent on the R & J show apologising for what had happened, followed by a spot where Richard looks at three boys with their backs to him and chooses the wrong one - not the one with Down's syndrome. 'There you are, it could happen to anyone', says Richard as camera pans to a hatchet-faced Judy.

It was quite funny, IMHO.

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Originally posted by theadora:
. . . White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits. Said for good luck but sadly too late for the Arts thread which has hit the dust again. Shame!!!

Why, oh why do they keep doing that to the Arts thread? No explanation, nothing.

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Originally posted by theadora:
. . . White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits. Said for good luck but sadly too late for the Arts thread which has hit the dust again. Shame!!!

My post asking why the Arts thread has gone, has gone.

I guess they feel 'LOL' is not prevalent enough. Absurd.

What a perfectly stupid sketch!!
Why involve Downs Syndrome?
No one surely needs any visual proof of the duo s cackhandedness.
Richard, talking about his wife s education at Manchester Grammer School for Girls where, also, Emily Pankhurst was educated:
"At least, you, Judy, did not throw yourself under a horse"
Grr Pah Grr

I just don't get it about Ricky Gervais.

Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm) loves him, it seems. He scripted a Simpsons episode. He is beloved of millions - and I just don't get it.

I find him smug, callow and dull. There. I just don't get it.


Hi Rothgar

Hi Sweet Marie and Thea

Can anyone initiate me into the hallowed depths of the humour of Ricky Gervais? He makes me think of the Emperor, with nowt on.

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Originally posted by coolana:
I just don't get it about Ricky Gervais.

Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm) loves him, it seems. He scripted a Simpsons episode. He is beloved of millions - and I just don't get it.

I find him smug, callow and dull. There. I just don't get it.

Hi Rothgar

Hi Sweet Marie and Thea

Can anyone initiate me into the hallowed depths of the humour of Ricky Gervais? He makes me think of the Emperor, with nowt on.

I agree whole-heartedly, Cooly - I don't get him either. He's in fashion I guess and the herd follows, as herds will. Or, to use your metaphor, he's butt-naked but no one's had the courage to say it yet.

Do you remember some years back, when every time you opened the Sunday papers, there were umpteen articles about the flamin' Bloomsbury lot; or Philip Larkin; or whoever was flavour of the month - all basically repeating the same thing ad nauseam. It's as if there is an assumption about what is popular or interesting and then critics and reviewers make an unspoken agreement to follow, or perpetuate that trend.

I saw the Gervais-scripted (gawd, that sounds like a phrase Madeley would use!) episode of The Simpsons last night - alarmingly unfunny. And why's he playing Reg Holdsworth in Extras? He's very overrated. His so-called sidekick is funnier (the same goes for Vic and Bob - Bob Mortimer is the one who'll do the best work).

I didnt watch the Office but Extras/Ricky Gervais makes me laugh, though wish he hadn't bothered with the comedy sit-com plot. Each to his or her own.

DD, I assume that you as the human shield were at lunch when the Luddites trashed the Arts thread again . I did a post on the Russells which included links, and I imagine that had something to do with the thread being zapped. Of course in a sensible world the mods would have zapped the post and not the thread, and explained which links are Ok and which not. I havent a clue. Too much to ask of this lot it seems.

Er, yes, sorry about that - went off for a sarnie and philistinism broke out.

Time for Arts 3, foin. Otherwise ron weston will have to resort to a temazepam and cocoa cocktail before retiring for his good night's sleep.

The Office was excruciating - the humour of embarrassment being frankly embarrassing. But Extras has some good performances from the celebs - like David Bowie's song about a fat loser (Gervais). I'm baffled by the character played by Ashley Jensen, the female extra he hangs out with. She's gormless with no redeeming features or stimulating lines.

Stephen Merchant - the co-writer who plays the agent is head and shoulders above his mate in this one. But being 6' and several inches, he would be.

Hi coolana
Fully agree about Gervaise, limited and unfunny, trading on a freaky success.
Unlike Ali Gee who has now developed a second character, Borat.
"In my country we are very tolerant. Homosexuals no longer have to wear the blue hat and women can travel on inside of bus"
The Madeleys back a loser.
Cue - enter Michael Gambon playing a boring old fart.
Judy: "I will tell you what you had for breakfast, dear"

Gervaise can be very good or totally off the mark. I enjoyed the documentary style of the Office. At least he is trying something different. Some of the first Extras is okay.
I thought his interview with Larry David where they both discussed previous sketches and what to them is funny was an excellent program . Its something I would love to see again.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by theadora:
Time for Arts 3, foin. Otherwise ron weston will have to resort to a temazepam and cocoa cocktail before retiring for his good night's sleep.

Thanks for the thought but I have found the answer. I just have a look at the Deal Or No Deal site, that does the trick. It's like looking in at an infants school where they are learning to read and write. They will be on the next page soon

Their forum's very red isn't it? And the mods strict disciplinarians, waving their bansticks all about. . . posters are encouraged to 'talk tactics'!!! What tactics would those be exactly - choosing boxes from the other contestants in ascending order of height/ eye colour/ star signs? Little Noely should deffo get an award - for cr*pmeister of the year.

.. yes, tactics, like "self-belief" and "courage" can determine the content of an already sealed box.
IMHO, DOND people are helping us back into the Dark Ages!!!
Grrr Pah Grrr

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Originally posted by theadora:
Their forum's very red isn't it? And the mods strict disciplinarians, waving their bansticks all about. . . posters are encouraged to 'talk tactics'!!! What tactics would those be exactly - choosing boxes from the other contestants in ascending order of height/ eye colour/ star signs? Little Noely should deffo get an award - for cr*pmeister of the year.

Star signs might just do the trick

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Originally posted by rothgar:
.. yes, tactics, like "self-belief" and "courage" can determine the content of an already sealed box.
IMHO, DOND people are helping us back into the Dark Ages!!!
Grrr Pah Grrr

LOL LOL!

DOND is a game of skill. True

Thea, cant agree with you re the Ashley Jensen character in Extras, think she plays the dippy straight guy role pretty well, foil for Gervais, and not hideous to look at either. But then I like the programme, another good one tonight IMHO .

Agreed. Chris Martin did shameless-publicising-latest-greatest-hits excellently. . . Gwyn must have been giving him acting lessions.

We'll agree to differ over Ashley. . . although she did look nice in her slinky red dress, I'll give you that. Ronnie Corbett drugging it up in the loo with lanky Merchant, and Gervais looking on, was great.
'If you hadn't been so tall they wouldn't have caught us.'
'Yeah but they would have seen Ronnie under the door anyway.'

TV Gold - yet my son said he wasn't that impressed. You can please some of the people, etc, etc.

Not Art-ing it up yet, my dear?

I think they've treated Ashely Jensen, who is a talented comedy actor, really badly this series. Last time her character was believably eccentric - now she's brain damaged. The Gervais charactor tells her about a dwarf, and she goes straight off to tell the dwarf's partner. He asks her (an actor, let's not forget) to pretend to be a fan, and she admits she knows him. He tells her his first girlfriend was boring, and she goes off to tell said girlfriend. She glances for a second at a £2,500 dress, and says she wants it when Gervais gives her the cue to say 'no'. Even if sometimes this leads to funny situations, it holds no truth, and the best comedy always has that. This show is now quite stunningly lazy and undisciplined. A bad sitcom is universally panned and then gets a BAFTA nomination? Not exactly well-thought out, is it?

Selfish writing - you said it, dawg. Hang your head in shame, Ricky.

She's off to L.A. soon isn't she - to continue filming the Ugly Betty show. Wonder how long before it arrives here . . .

In the interest of research I just watched a repeat of 'Extras' on cable.

All that glisters is not gold - as my ma, rather pedantically, used to say. Chris Martin - Ronnie Corbett - Stephen Fry - Davina......for that? Shoddy, implausible script - I laughed smiled twice. When they played 'Pretty Woman' as she walked in the 'posh' dres shop - quite a good parody of the film. And just at Ronnie Corbett - in general. God - he must wonder what the hell has happened to humour in this country.

IMHO - hey....where the heck is Rothgar, then????

Come back, please

Hi coolana &