Heh, terrible I know, but watching ITV's program about some british holiday makers surviving the tsunami against the odds is much funnier than Extras.
Ugh. Extras really looks like a disaster in the making. A couple of quietly amusing scenes, but mixed in with some real pish & a naff cameo from the "name" star.
Armando Ianucci must be pissing himself... ;-)
The backlash starts here!
I laughed quite a bit at Extras but it's obviously not got the depth of The Office. (Well not yet) And there's not the strong other characters to counterbalance Gervaise - so it looks a bit too much like a 'star' vehicle.
And apprently it gets better.
Saw a few seconds of Survivors and it looked horrific. Should have taped it.
I thought extras was a nice idea, and I liked some of the very edgy comedy, but there wasn't much to it and it wasn't that funny.
Survivors was comedy gold. But full props to the family who were real survivors, and I do have a lot of respect for them, despite taking the piss out of the well meaning but lame-ass ITV show. The fat dad who looked just like Ricky Gervais (and once you realised that it really was much funnier than Extras) must have been GUTTED by the Jeremy Spake lookalike they got to play him.
so glad i don't watch telly anymore
Give it a chance people! I'm not the biggest Office fan, but I saw plenty of potential in the first episode. And I was laughing very hard at the exchange at the end.
Ben Stiller: "Who the hell are you?"
Gervais: "Nobody"
Stiller: "That's right. And do you know who I am?"
[Beat]
Gervais: "Starsky or Hutch, I can never remember."
Stiller (shocked that someone has spoken back to him): Is that supposed to be funny?
Gervais: "You tell me, you were in it."
...my problem was that that was one of the only amusing scenes. The rest just made me cringe (and not in a good, "Office" way, but in a "Ricky Gervais on the 11 O'Clock Show way...)
Extras was ok but the Catherine Tate show after was brilliant. Lots of laugh ou tloud moments I thought. Only problem is everyone at work today will be saying ' Look at my face. Do I look bothered?"
I hate it when that happens, everyone starts spouting off the catchphraes left right and centre. Pretending to be Alan Partridge or David Brent and not realising that they are worse humans than those characters could evr be! Twats! My work mates wanted to have a Little Britain night, with everyone behaving in character, thank fuck that didn't happen - none of them had the bottle to go through with it. Thank fuck it's Friday. Sorry.
I couldn't watch the Catherine Tate Show - the trailer she did for the show really put me off it...
I thought Extras was pretty good, though I think the xfm shows are the funniest thing that Ricky Gervais has done, mainly because of Karl Pilkington.
- Steve
Extras: multiple belly laughs here.
I thought it was great too.
And I do think it will get better with repeated viewing. Personally, much as I liked the Office, I find it hard to watch it over again, so painful are some of the moments.
dont have tv so didnt see either, but that little transcript of the gervais/stiller exchange had me pissing myself so wish i could have seen it.
Missed everything tonight (well, not much). Watched Saw instead. Hmm, there may be a thread about that. Well, i agree with the ones that loved it.
Will see a repeat of Extras, although I'm not keen on Ben Stiller so I dunno if that's a good or a bad thing. Probably good by the sounds of it.
Really enjoyed Extras, despite seeing in less than propitious circumstances. Catherine Tate was pretty awful, though. And Absolute Power completes the sense of a slowly declining level of comedy through the night...
I really didn't like extras when I watched it on Thursday but I think that was 'cos I was expecting far too much from it. I really enjoyed The Office, I can't help but like Gervais (agree whole heartedly with others comments about the XFM show) and the premise of Extras just sounds so cool. Nevertheless, I ended up watching it again yesterday with obviously lower expectations and enjoyed it much more.
I'll certainly be sticking with it for the rest of the series.
Pete.