by Nucks » Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:24 pm
Wilson wrote:Nucks wrote:Wilson wrote:Nucks wrote:Sky1 has a new Karl Pilkington show coming on 27th September called ‘Sick of It’. Seeing as Mr N is a big fan of anything Gervais related, we’ll be checking it out. No input from Gervais or Merchant it seems on this one I believe, but mentioned anyway. The premise is:
“a scripted comedy series that sees Karl Pilkington take on two roles - himself, and the voice inside his head, as he muddles through the mundane life he may have led if he hadn't met Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.”
I’m not convinced KP can pull off a show without RG and SM’s input. We’ll see.
Sounds good. I loved Idiot Abroad but found Gervais's input unnecessarily sneery and not very funny.
The sneery bit was intentional I think, he’s like that with most of his interactions with Pilkington. I don’t rate Gervais as a great actor although I do find a lot of his stuff funny, The Office was brilliant, Merchant’s input played a large part of course. Derek was meh, it tried too hard to tug at the heartstrings and the abomination that was the Kev character, just no. I think Gervais likes to “act”alongside Karl because Karl is written as a doofus and Gervais gets to be the intellectual one, looking down his nose at Karl’s stupidity and small-mindedness. Gervais gets to be clever, worldly, lofty, but then next to a guy who believes random bits about monkeys taking local jobs in the human world, well...
I adore The Office and for a long time really liked Gervais, thinking his arrogance was tongue n cheek but over the years I've come to believe he actually is that arrogant. His stand up & Twitter really turned me off. Derek was terrible & his movies are awful but I'll always love The Office.
Don’t do twitter but I know what you mean about his stand-up stuff. The first two were alright but the latter ones have a nasty streak to them. I’ve always had the impression that many Office fans and critics believed Gervais wasn’t much of an actor and was essentially playing himself as David Brent, and Gervais has tried to shake that image with Derek and a few films but it hasn’t worked. He’s slipped into the role of bitter piss-taker quite well, only I’m not sure that’s what he wanted. His Oscar hosting stint went down like a lead balloon. Some of his fans tried to defend the criticism by saying Americans just didn’t get his humour, but I think he was just being a dick.
Extras was also really good, and I liked his film ‘Ghost Town’ where he sees dead people after having a near death experience while undergoing surgery.
Oh, and I like the podcasts too, Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington work well together. RG’s laugh always get me.
[quote="Wilson"][quote="Nucks"][quote="Wilson"][quote="Nucks"]Sky1 has a new Karl Pilkington show coming on 27th September called ‘Sick of It’. Seeing as Mr N is a big fan of anything Gervais related, we’ll be checking it out. No input from Gervais or Merchant it seems on this one I believe, but mentioned anyway. The premise is:
“a scripted comedy series that sees Karl Pilkington take on two roles - himself, and the voice inside his head, as he muddles through the mundane life he may have led if he hadn't met Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.”
I’m not convinced KP can pull off a show without RG and SM’s input. We’ll see.[/quote]
Sounds good. I loved Idiot Abroad but found Gervais's input unnecessarily sneery and not very funny.[/quote]
The sneery bit was intentional I think, he’s like that with most of his interactions with Pilkington. I don’t rate Gervais as a great actor although I do find a lot of his stuff funny, The Office was brilliant, Merchant’s input played a large part of course. Derek was meh, it tried too hard to tug at the heartstrings and the abomination that was the Kev character, just no. I think Gervais likes to “act”alongside Karl because Karl is written as a doofus and Gervais gets to be the intellectual one, looking down his nose at Karl’s stupidity and small-mindedness. Gervais gets to be clever, worldly, lofty, but then next to a guy who believes random bits about monkeys taking local jobs in the human world, well... :gigglesnshit:[/quote]
I adore The Office and for a long time really liked Gervais, thinking his arrogance was tongue n cheek but over the years I've come to believe he actually is that arrogant. His stand up & Twitter really turned me off. Derek was terrible & his movies are awful but I'll always love The Office.[/quote]
Don’t do twitter but I know what you mean about his stand-up stuff. The first two were alright but the latter ones have a nasty streak to them. I’ve always had the impression that many Office fans and critics believed Gervais wasn’t much of an actor and was essentially playing himself as David Brent, and Gervais has tried to shake that image with Derek and a few films but it hasn’t worked. He’s slipped into the role of bitter piss-taker quite well, only I’m not sure that’s what he wanted. His Oscar hosting stint went down like a lead balloon. Some of his fans tried to defend the criticism by saying Americans just didn’t get his humour, but I think he was just being a dick.
Extras was also really good, and I liked his film ‘Ghost Town’ where he sees dead people after having a near death experience while undergoing surgery.
Oh, and I like the podcasts too, Gervais, Merchant, and Pilkington work well together. RG’s laugh always get me. :gigglesnshit:
