Good laugh. Enjoyed it.
Television Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
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A few funny lines but fairly meh overall.
Edit: I'm liking it less and less in retrospect. Lazy and making excuses for punching down bigotry.
Edit: I'm liking it less and less in retrospect. Lazy and making excuses for punching down bigotry.
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Fairly weak I thought. The same schtick as his last special, making easy jokes that get laughs for being politically incorrect / edgy rather than being a well crafted routine.
Is he still a brave little cis boy?
Weak observations, poorly performed.
Pop that in the bin
Ooh you're hard.
Very good, enjoyed it a lot, my wife likely even more so. Long live RG!
Nah, I love Ricky
Every time he puts out something new Steve Merchant gets funnier
Still one of the best take downs in comedy history. Think Acaster ripped him for 7 whole minutes.
Whatever you think of Ricky, it’s really impressive how he’s managed to transition himself from one of the most relevant comedy writers alive into the kind of middling stand up shock merchant for angry middle aged dads you used to only find in VHS bucket bins in motorway service stations.
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Over half his material is created from stuff they used to talk about with Karl on XfM. Slugs and evolution. Chinese pedos. etc
That was always the making of his career.
His first two stand ups were brilliant, Animals and Politics. Everything since then has been the same “oooh look at me being controversial” spiel regurgitated. It’s crap.
Yeah this. Tedious bloke. What a waste.
Enjoyed it for what it was. Wasn't laugh out loud funny.
Lil' Timmy had me cracking up, also the n-word line was a good one.
But yeah I guess he should come up with something else than the angry woke crowd stuff.
But yeah I guess he should come up with something else than the angry woke crowd stuff.
Issue is James Acaster isn't funny.
Which is some of the funniest stuff ever broadcast tbf
His stand up has been mediocre from day one. Very talented writer and a decent actor but never had any talent as a stand up comedian.
The more intriguing decline is how he’s gone from writing lightning in a bottle like The Office to banal, self indulgent drivel like After Life.
The chinese pedo dog eating line wasn't even that controversial despite the build up, though it was remarkably better than the anti woke stuff. Which just felt like pandering for the easy right wing money.
Seconded. Crowds who don’t know or care who you are are the whetstone on which your comedic wit is sharpened, and he got a huge fanbase before he got the skill required to be a top tier comedian. From what I gather he doesn’t work out his material in clubs or anything prior to going on a tour with a new special either.
He's just a lazy terf cnut these days who's online precense revolves around bigging himself up. He used to make fun of people who are like what he's like now but the truth is he desperately wanted to be one of them.
WHATS THE MATTER, TOOOO CHALLENGING FOR YA?
It's not what he says. It's how he says it. Love 'im
Great point.
Watched a bit, got bored, moved on.
Standard Gervais.
Standard Gervais.
It was half-decent. He's not getting any better or funnier, though.
Title of your sex tape amirite
Whole life more like!
Acaster is the best working British comic right now.
Eh? He's very funny.
Acaster is pretty mediocre. Being irreverent and sounding/looking/acting a bit weird carries him a lot of the way.
Brilliant
fecking hell