Derek (gervais)

It would've been a better idea if he really produced "When The Whistle Blows" from Extras instead. Same comedy value.

The musical montages soothe the soul.

I hadn't heard of this...just watched the trailer and was really confused. Is it meant to be terrible? Is the terribleness part of the point? It's not funny and it's not dramatic, so what is it?

I watched the third episode and am starting to really like it.

Not hating Gervais helps guys

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love watching shandling turn the tables on gervais using the same shtick the office excels at.

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this bothered me. gervais thinks he's some kind of stand up comedy authority who can sit with three guys who have been doing it their entire lives? pretty arrogant.

i fucking hate his annoying laugh.

Shandling explained that interview before, so it really doesn't fit with the Gervais is a dumbass narrative.

I think it was awkward for both of them because they were shooting scenes for two entirely different purposes.

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What happened when Ricky Gervais interviewed you for one of his TV shows?You didn’t seem to get on…

We were doing interviews for my Larry Sanders DVD at the same time as Ricky interviewed me for his show. My DVD included very low-key visits with my friends, including Alec Baldwin and Sharon Stone. We agreed we’d shoot my interview first then Ricky’s. When I walked into the kitchen, his cameras were on which created a completely different sensibility. I came in to say ‘hello’ with my guard down but there he was shooting his show. I thought: ‘Let’s see if I can signal to him to bring it down because we’re doing this other interview.’ We were doing two shows at the same time.

He doesn’t seem to have got the message…

No. It becomes a boxing match. Either of us could have stopped for a minute and said: ‘Are we on the same page?’ but neither of us did. We were two people doing two different shows. I kept thinking: ‘Maybe this will be interesting’ I was trying to do something not comedian-to-comedian but man-to-man. He was trying to make an entertaining show, which I’m capable of; I just wasn’t doing it in that moment. We all needed to stop.

i think it still applies, whatever the intention was. it's horrendously awkward and gervais has no idea what to do.

What percentage of Garry Shandling's head do you think is original?

It's over now and I can only say it won me over. Yes, Karl doesn't act and sticks out and yes, gervais personally seems a bit of a jerk, but I love Derek.

I think the script was written with a wallpaper brush given how unsubtle and thickly laid on the whole thing was.

i saw one episode (the first one i think) and it did seem a bit obvious, the woman saying about the % of old people who died when theyre rehomed etc etc etc, and im glad ricky is doing this it shows hes not a massive bully for saying that its alright to call ppl mongs etc

  On 2/14/2013 at 12:16 PM, messiaen said:

or he should be a contestant on takeshis castle.

I would watch this

Watched a few episodes online, wasn't that bad, worse part by far was Ricky as Derek. Karl was surprisingly good I thought even though he was still being Karl...

in general i enjoyed it! quite a bit!

the thing I disliked the most was the forced and contrived way chosen to get the message across, especially with the villains and their transformation after going through the home. In addition, the editing and assembly of the background songs made the former fact ​​very difficult to let it go...


karl playing karl was awesome! ricky playing derek, yeah, was a bit bad!

I cried a bit in the last episode, lol, many of the parts were truly honest and effective (kev's confessions and realizations) but then it started abusing and became a bit annoying, especially with coldplay playing in the background...


seems that gervais and I share the same opinion about hip hop! lol

How do you guys get around Gervais acting here? It's an abomination.

I thought he was quite good if you dismiss what he's like in rl.

I only saw a trailer and it was shocking, but I guess I'll watch a couple episodes just to see what's up.