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Life's Too Short

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
New Ricky Gervais show with actors playing exaggerated versions of themselves (it's about time someone did it!) starting tonight.
 
Yeah that really wasn't very good. It felt like The Office and Extras had been put in a blender and something nowhere near as funny as either of them had come out. I like Warwick but he was literally playing David Brent for most of it. The accountant and the secretary were like the too thick to be real agent from Extras (only not as funny) and didn't fit the faux-documentary style. The funniest part by far was Liam Neeson's appearance. Great delivery of "I have AIDS" and the "how does he get away with it?" bit raised a smile But really what did that scene have to do with the rest of the episode? It's telling that Warwick was just sitting around like a spare part during it...
 
Mmm. I admit I wasn't giving it my full attention, but that was mostly because I found it a bit dull. I would've preferred a show about the real Warwick having to deal with other people who were dickheads, rather than him being yet another Ricky Gervais anti-hero character that you're never really going to root for. Maybe future episodes will be better but I'm not impressed so far.
 
But really it's hard to deliver a line like "one criticism George, why cover my face? People want to see Warwick!" without sounding like Brent (and a pretty stupid line since he was only like ten during Jedi and it was his first major role.)
 
Do you think if a million people tweeted the word "subtlety" to Ricky Gervais he'd get the message?

(This week's wasn't any better.)
 
Meanwhile he'll be asking poor normal people who don't have Golden Globes to give money to help people with AIDS.
 
The writing is so fucking lazy. There's literally no storylines, it's just "everyone abuses Warwick in a ridiculously over the top way but you can't even feel sorry for him because he acts exactly like David Brent" repeated again and again. What was the point of that school scene other than "wheelchair children are funny!" Oh, right, that was the point.
 
So this week's, at the start I thought it might be a bit better because it seemed to have more of a plot and there were a few funny parts, but it just turned out to be a collection of dwarf falling over sketches as usual. The Ricky and Stephen (who again said nothing of note) bit could have been stuck in any episode and just wasn't very funny.
 
Last night's was the first without Gervais or any celebrity guests (unless you count Barry, Cheggers and Les Dennis in a completely unconnected appearance at the end) so was it any better?

No, not really. They could have done a good story on the idea of Warwick going out on a date with a dwarf and him feeling like he could do better. But instead they just had him walk in and say "I shouldn't date a dwarf, I'm a big star!" Then fall over. Again.
 
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