Word: gervaisã
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...title, Gervais is hardly its focus. Instead, it is Karl, whom—despite his utter lack of stand-up, writing, or acting experience—Gervais has called “the funniest man alive in Britain today.” Over the last decade, Pilkington has become Gervais??s pet project, if not his pet. He is a fool, and also a genius...
...some extent, the hilariously disparate body types of Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington lend themselves to caricature. They are a strange tableau: the lumbering six-foot-seven Merchant, the squat Gervais, the round-headed Pilkington. Most reviews liken Gervais??s avatar to Fred Flintstone, but I believe the real similarity here is to Comedy Central’s mercifully short-lived “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties” (you know a show’s good when its title prescriptively drops the gerund “g”), which animated clips of stand-up comedy...
...Ricky Gervais??s “The Office” is one of the funniest and most brilliant programs ever to grace a television screen. And, as with the British series “Coupling,” NBC swung and missed with the American version. With all due respect to Steve Carell, who is very funny in almost everything he does, the U.S. “Office” just isn’t very funny. The whole experience is like watching a version of “Da Ali G Show” starring James Rebhorn...
...biggest challenge for Gervais with this series is to distance himself from his iconic incarnation as David Brent. Like “The Office,” “Extras” follows the insatiable quest for fame; but the only thing similar about Brent and Millman is Gervais?? signature laugh...
...Each week he shares the spotlight with a big-name star satirizing him or herself; the first week’s episode featured an Oscar-hungry, foul-mouthed Kate Winslet, and last week was Ben Stiller’s attempt to make a poignant film about Bosnian war victims. Gervais?? cohorts include Ashley Jensen as Andy’s dim-witted friend Maggie Jacobs, and his “Office” and “Extras” co-creator Stephen Merchant as useless agent Darren Lamb...
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