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From what I understand he did do some stand-up before Animals, but clearly he hadn’t achieved much. I’ve been at it for five years and it is a bit annoying seeing his lazy stand-up get such huge rewards. But then I have fellow comics who love his special, so it’s not universal.

I just know I couldn’t spend more than 5 mins watching Supernatural before being annoyed about him doing jokes he’s pretty much done before, with his usual artless delivery. Not too far off his Brent persona.
Good luck with performing!
 
Yeah he's not very well liked amongst other stand ups either. Frankie Boyle and Stuart Lee don't like him.

I think it's part of the reason he's never done panel shows either. He's not very popular outside of his own clique.

I think it's much more likely that he doesn't need to.

Been on a nice little bunsen burner for decades now
 
One to skip for sure. I can't imagine this will be anything other than a ball-washing session.
it was a waste of an episode. Surely they could have found someone related to football. What made it worse was they didn't even cover any football at all considering there was lot going on last week.
 
I was wondering that too. He must have rubbed some the wrong way I guess. Maybe he’s too offensive for some. Nothing wrong with comedians being offensive and controversial in my opinion. All I know is Extras and the Office are the in the top five of funniest shows I’ve ever watched.
James Acaster addressed that ...

 
For a Gervais sub-reddit they are quite in agreement

A pretty big portion of the subreddit are fans of his old stuff, so they're liable to agree with the fact that he's a lazy unoriginal hack now.

Or, I guess they're jealous.
 
It's really not difficult to understand.

Gervais has produced nothing but shit for about 15 years. His tv shows and his films and his standup have all been fecking dreadful since then.

He also comes across as a right wing arsehole mocking trans people and constantly complaining about "woke". I think he's said or tweeted some form of the sentence "you have the right to be offended and I have the right to offend you" about 8 trillion times in the last few years.

His standup is a mix of him explaining how he totally pwned someone on twitter, mocking trans people, lazy edgelord humour about rape or dead babies and then stealing funny things Karl Pilkington said 20 years ago.

And by the way, I was a huge Gervais fan originally. So it's got feck all to do with jealousy or anything like that. The Office is maybe the best comedy ever, the XFM shows still make me laugh and Extras was mostly very good. He's just got really lazy and shite.

I think he's pretty liberal for the most part. He's just got old and grumpy.
 
Got my hopes up when he started mentioning Karl and Steve would love to know what’s going on with those 3
 
I think he's pretty liberal for the most part. He's just got old and grumpy.
That's how we brushed off brexit at the time...

Turns out people get richer, then older, then hate everyone around them whilst thinking they know everything and what's best for everyone. Gervais is that in a nutshell, if only he was funny enough to see the irony there.
 
Got my hopes up when he started mentioning Karl and Steve would love to know what’s going on with those 3
Was very weird how he didn't mention them much particularly Steven - have they fallen out big time? Kind of sounded like it.
 
Subreddits like that are so pointless. Every comment is just some form of reference and they all just repeat the same stuff over and over. I could never imagine checking the subreddit for Ricky Gervais on a daily basis. Weird world.
 
Subreddits like that are so pointless. Every comment is just some form of reference and they all just repeat the same stuff over and over. I could never imagine checking the subreddit for Ricky Gervais on a daily basis. Weird world.
So you were fine when we sold Jaap Stam?
 
it was a waste of an episode. Surely they could have found someone related to football. What made it worse was they didn't even cover any football at all considering there was lot going on last week.

Yea I don't get it either, I know they've had non-football athletes on the show before but at least you can contrast and compare their careers with the footballers on the show so it's somewhat tied in to the shows overall concept. This just felt so random, like they only invited Ricky because they wanted to hang out with him for a while. I thought that maybe he was a huge football fan and they'd discuss his team and various things around the PL but instead we got a football podcast where some footballing legends asks a comedian about his writing process and tour schedule.

Complete waste.
 
Yea I don't get it either, I know they've had non-football athletes on the show before but at least you can contrast and compare their careers with the footballers on the show so it's somewhat tied in to the shows overall concept. This just felt so random, like they only invited Ricky because they wanted to hang out with him for a while. I thought that maybe he was a huge football fan and they'd discuss his team and various things around the PL but instead we got a football podcast where some footballing legends asks a comedian about his writing process and tour schedule.

Complete waste.
It was quite obvious how it happened. They were at his show the night before and decided on the spot to see if he would be a guest the following day.
 
Yea I don't get it either, I know they've had non-football athletes on the show before but at least you can contrast and compare their careers with the footballers on the show so it's somewhat tied in to the shows overall concept. This just felt so random, like they only invited Ricky because they wanted to hang out with him for a while. I thought that maybe he was a huge football fan and they'd discuss his team and various things around the PL but instead we got a football podcast where some footballing legends asks a comedian about his writing process and tour schedule.

Complete waste.
The only non football guests I can remember are Rory McIlroy (golfer and big football fan) and that NFL player (who was investing in English football). RG was weird and I hope they aren't going to do too many celebrity guests like that. Get Keir Starmer on, or Elton John, Stormzy, Astrid Wett
 


Haha I'm famous!

I'm heading to the big time!

Most seem to agree with me, although a few have called me a cretin which is annoying because they don't even know me. I am a cretin but they don't know that.

It's funny they think I'm Irish because of the "fecking" autocorrect :lol:
 
Was very weird how he didn't mention them much particularly Steven - have they fallen out big time? Kind of sounded like it.

He fell out with Karl a long time ago, it was around the time they were making Derek together and Karl left half way through.

Karl was unhappy with how little money he got out of an Idiot abroad considering he was the star of the show. That was why he went off on his own to make the moaning of life.
 
He fell out with Karl a long time ago, it was around the time they were making Derek together and Karl left half way through.

Karl was unhappy with how little money he got out of an Idiot abroad considering he was the star of the show. That was why he went off on his own to make the moaning of life.
And what about Merchant?
 
The only non football guests I can remember are Rory McIlroy (golfer and big football fan) and that NFL player (who was investing in English football). RG was weird and I hope they aren't going to do too many celebrity guests like that. Get Keir Starmer on, or Elton John, Stormzy, Astrid Wett
Ronnie O’Sullivan went on and was maybe my favourite one to date
 
Ronnie O’Sullivan went on and was maybe my favourite one to date
Yeah it's fine getting non footballers but they should be adjacent sports like snooker, golf, tennis, NFL etc. it's nice to compare how the two sports work etc.

Gervais was just random.
 
The only non football guests I can remember are Rory McIlroy (golfer and big football fan) and that NFL player (who was investing in English football). RG was weird and I hope they aren't going to do too many celebrity guests like that. Get Keir Starmer on, or Elton John, Stormzy, Astrid Wett

They're having James Corden on in the New Year.