March 2012
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Ricky Gervais: No one cares about old folk in this...
RICKY Gervais has slammed the treatment of old folk in the UK, saying the nation focuses too much on youth.
The comedian plays a retirement home worker in new Channel 4 comedy drama Derek and says that pensioners are too often overlooked in favour of youngsters.
He said: “No one cares about old people in this country. There is a sort of army of youth, but getting old is the one thing...
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'Derek': What is Ricky Gervais's new comedy pilot...
It’s clear from the first few seconds of Derek that this is very much a Ricky Gervais production. The opening scene of his Channel 4 comedy pilot features the titular character (played by him) talk to the camera mockumentary-style and introduce some of the residents at the nursing home where he works, sparking off one of those old faithful moments full of stilted sentences and awkward...
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Ricky Gervais in Derek - review
The upcoming C4 comedy about a man with learning difficulties isn’t the bad-taste train crash you might expect.
Approaching a new Ricky Gervais comedy without preconceptions is now impossible. Let’s just list them: it’ll rehash The Office; it’ll feature delusional people obsessing about fame, in a way that reminds us about Gervais’s own artistic integrity and success; it’ll have jokes...
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Week two hundred and eleven - March/April 2012
Did a Q and A at Bafta after a screening of Derek. It was honestly one of the most enjoyable ones I’ve ever done. I was interviewed by the lovely Boyd Hilton, who was great, but the audience were amazing and their reaction was genuinely heartwarming. It’s being shown on Channel 4 on April 12. I’ll post some trailers when they’re ready. I won another award! I love the...
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5 questions to Ricky Gervais
1- What was it that led you to do comedy? It had always been one of my passions- or rather dispositions, and through luck and circumstance, I made my hobby my career. Humour was always one of the most important things to me growing up. My family were funny and I always had funny friends. My English teacher always told me to write about what I know. I worked in an office for ten years. So I...
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New show arrives in April
Ricky Gervais’s new show Derek is to get an airing on Channel 4 in April. The show is about Ricky Gervais’s character Derek Noakes who works in a nursing-home and features Karl Pilkington in his first acting role. But before you get all excited and press series link on your Sky+, this is just a pilot at the moment, you’ll have to wait and see if it makes the big leap into a fully-fledged...
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Week two hundred and ten - March 2012
As you know the third series of The Ricky Gervais Show returns to HBO on April 20th. I don’t have a date for the UK airing yet, but it will obviously be this year and the DVD for series 2 will be released around the same time. Anyway, here are some lovely clips from the new series to whet your appetite… [clip 1] [clip 2] [clip 3] Spent about 20 minutes on the phone the other...
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TV Preview: Derek + Q+A 18:45
30 minute screening followed by Q&A with writer and director Ricky Gervais
Derek Noakes (Ricky Gervais) is a tender, innocent man whose love for his job and the people he cares for shines through. He’s 49 years old and loves animals, Rolf Harris, Jesus, Deal or No Deal, Million Pound Drop and Britain’s Got Talent - but his main hobby is autograph hunting. Written and directed by...
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Week two hundred and nine - March 2012
Went to a charity function at the House of Lords last night. As I was talking to various Lords, MPs, billionaires and royalty I wondered if any of them suspected that I used to regularly wake up in a puddle of my own urine. (Well it happened a couple of times. Ha ha.) It was for Tiger Time Please help out if you can. Time is really running out.
I like his style….
On the way home...
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Week two hundred and eight - February/March 2012
Jane and I had dinner with Karl and Suzanne this week to celebrate Suzanne’s birthday. Karl had arranged for the restaurant to provide a victoria sponge birthday cake with a lovely message.
She of course loved it. The day he called to arrange the dinner he asked me to explain the “glass is half full/half empty” metaphor. I started by saying, “Well, if your perception...
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GQ Magazine - April
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Week two hundred and eight - February/March 2012
Started pre-production on An Idiot Abroad 3: The Short Way Round, this week.
Photo; Tony Briggs We’ve basically only sorted the budget and a rough route at the moment, but it feels great to actually be working on it, and it means that Karl is in too deep to pull out now. Ha ha. An Idiot Abroad 2 has been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. Which is nice. Doubt I’ll...