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A year from now…
No. Sorry, no. We don’t do that. We’re not a TV supplement. (We wish!) (No, not really.) (We mean, Christ, can you imagine?) (Shut up.)
So, basically Only Fools and Horses, inherently British, pukka, CUSHTY Only Fools & Horses has just been commissioned for a US Pilot! Well, we all saw THAT coming, didn’t we? Nine years ago.
God, look at you all.
Sat there in your ostentatious Ivory Towers looking down on us in our hecklerspray hovel as we scrap around trying to pick a living from the meagre bones of underweight celebrities. You sit in judgement of us like a Feudal Lord views his peasants with seeming omniscience.
You sit there with your lucky dip box at the ready, it loaded with randomly generated insults and put-downs designed to make us feel like the lowest of the low, like the dog dirt on the shoe of the internet, like Tim Westwood. Your words are designed to cut, to hurt but are said with the best interests at heart. You want to protect your favourite celebrity because you know- deep down- that they’re too disinterested or stupid to defend themselves.
Ricky Gervais seems to have the ability to rub people up the wrong way.
Maybe it’s his egotistical rants or perhaps because The Invention of Lying was complete turd. Either way some people just cant stand the sharp-toothed tubster.
Whatever it is it seems to be mostly unfounded. As both The Office and Extras proved that when paired with Stephen Merchant he has an ability for creating both comedy steeped in real-life while delivering some genuine drama to each scenario.
Ricky Gervais seems to be one of those people you either love or hate, or something inbetween.
As with any popular existence, he is subject to the normal animosity imposed by the group who are at present too cool to be a fan of a well-liked figure. Anyway, he’s got a DVD/Blu-Ray coming out of that Invention of Lying film he did, so to publicise it he gave a small number of interviews. One of them was with us, yay!
We also gave him the opportunity to plug lots of other things – see if you can spot them.
Like everything from cultural imperialism to one specific type of muffin, The Office was a British idea copied by the Americans.
Both the British and American versions of The Office have been stormed the ratings, both the British and American versions of The Office have mined comedy from awkward and mundane situations and both the British and American versions of The Office have spawned movie stars, as seen in everything from Get Smart to Love, Actually to Pirates Of The Caribbean to that rubbishy George Clooney film about American football.
But which is better – the British Office or the American Office? It’s a debate that everyone has an opinion on but nobody has comprehensively won. And that’s why we’re here now. Using a complex scientific algorythm based on five categories, we’ve decided to find out which version of The Office is best. You may disagree with us if you like. Just know that if you do, you’re wrong…
10 - Let’s play ‘guess what the snake ate’ – Best Week Ever
9 – Bald hedgehogs = ugly – Dailymail
8 – Kate Moss continues to look a bit weird - Popsugar
7 – A day late, sure, but here are some terrible Irish accents - Irishcentral
6 – A man complains about the American Office - LAT
5 - Perverts! Now you know which students to target with the most success – Forwardon
4 – TWO CAMELS IN A CAR! - YouTube
3 - Want to make your own dog treats? OK! - Instructables
2 - Want to see a picture of a toddler on a spike? You do? You’re weird – Telegraph
1 - We’re beginning to think that dolphins are just great big fishy stoners, you know that…
This is one we thought would never actually happen, like Mike Myers making a film worse than Cat in the Hat (The Love Guru) or James Bond wearing jeans (Quantum of Solace), but it seems that, yes, at last, Colombia Pictures have announced that Ghostbusters 3 is to go into production.
News as to exactly which cast members are retuning to battle ecto-snot and giant computer generated Liquorice Allsorts is thin on the ground. We do know that Bill Murray said he would never do another one. Then again Arnie probably said the same about another Terminator, until he was paid a gazillion dollars for Terminator 3: Rise of the Girdle.
Slightly obese humourist Ricky Gervais has landed a role in the new GTA game, due for release on April 29.
The man responsible for some of the decade’s greatest television has teamed up with the creators of the decade’s greatest computer game, in what has been described by one man as ‘a slightly interesting event – I’ll probably have a look’.
Ricky will appear as himself, performing three minutes of new material, as well as some jokes from his recent Fame tour, in the Liberty City Comedy Club.
Make no mistake about it, that’s a tough crowd – one poorly-timed dance routine and Ricky could soon find himself on the receiving end of the old ‘rocket up the arse’ heckle.
