Is it okay to hate Ricky Gervais's fucking obnoxious hooting laugh?

[Fuddlemiff]

He's not THAT bad. I like most of what he does the first time he does it. But he just has a habit of using the same joke over and over until you're sick of it. He did it in Extras where every week the seemingly nice celebrity guest would turn out to be an arsehole, and he did it with that "I've won loads of awards!" shtick. And he does it when he picks on Karl Pilkington as well. It might be funny picking up on someone's mangling of a proverb or mispronunciation of a word once or twice, but he does it to Karl each and every time it happens. And with Karl, that means very, very often.

I haven't watched much of the US Office, but it seems to lack the subtle humour that made the original a success. Not saying that makes it worse, or better, only that they seem like very different kinds of shows.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The US Office is pretty good, TO BE FAIR, though they seem to have gone a bit overboard with the wackiness in the later seasons from what I've seen. But I suppose that's the problem when you produce a hundred episodes (or however man it is now) as opposed to the 15 or whatever the original series lasted.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Sure, the first several seasons of the US Office are pretty enjoyable to watch, but they don't any anywhere near the depth of the UK one.

The UK Office is a brilliant work showing believable, normal, boring people and how they react to each other and to believable, normal, boring situations, in a way that has a lot to say about society and corporatism.

The US Office is about putting caricatures into wacky situations, often to great effect, but not in any way that would fool anybody into thinking that these are real people living in the real world. It's a much easier show to watch than the UK Office, but emptier.

 

[Robert "Monkey" Loggia]

Ghost Town was shit. Also I just saw him on Sesame Street. He was shit. He is shit. SHIT.

YOU'RE SHIT!!! :mmph:

 

[Mentalist]

I don't really like either version. I've been in those corporate environments, and I mostly find the humor more uncomfortable than hilarious.

My mother dislikes The Office for the exact same reasons. Too many years working in at an advertising agency will do that.


Gervais is highly talented in a very broad spectrum of comedy from writing it to stand up to performance. It's hard to give him credit sometimes though because he wears the massive ego character around so much. I know most of it is a put on but he's clearly highly pleased of himself and not too bothered about being humble about it.


Anyway, if you don't like his laugh... don't watch this..

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[headvoid]

The appraisals scenes were brilliant, I have to admit.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The dance was funny the first seven times.

 

[headvoid]

Disagree, I didn't like it the first time.

Sorry.

 

[Cassie]

I think he's a little bit cute, and I'd probably do him.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I used to have a neighbour called Ricky Gervais.

 

[headvoid]

I once went on holiday with the Stiff family.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Remember when Tim was in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy but it was shite but he's good as Watson in Sherlock?

 

[Fuddlemiff]

He just plays himself, the 'everyman' in everything. But he does it well. He should've been in Extras and turned out to be a proper arsehole.

 

[CaptainWacky]

That sure would have subverted my expectations!

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Ricky Gervais could've had a go at Martin Freeman for being an arsehole and then Freeman goes "who'd'you think you are? My boss?". That would've been really, really, really funny.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I did like the Kate Winslet one, just because she said something about "playing a mental."

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Guaranteed Oscar!

 

[Gagh]

Let's see if I can find some pictures of Ricky Gervais' face when he laughs that makes me want to punch him. The photoshoots for Karl Pilkington's new series should prove perfect.

Yeah. There it is.

Photographer: "Yeah, Ricky, that's nice. Now do the laughing face - the laughing face. Yeah that's it, point at Karl, Ricky. Point at Karl and do the laughing face. Sweeeet."

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Yup, that's the grin. Grr!

Karl ought to use the money from the series to have his plentiful chest hair transferred to his chrome dome.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Oh and I know everyone loves Karl but that series is pretty shit as far as I can see. It's just him going somewhere and saying "oh this is crap, they're all speaking in foreign!" then cut to Ricky obnoxious hoot-laughing.