Ricky Gervais

But it still doesn't feel like mine. I've done loads of things. I've popped up in things. I've done the Golden Globes. I've done this and that. But if I say, what have you done? I'd list, you know, three or four sitcoms, a couple of movies, and my standup. That's what I'd say was mine.

Yeah, now I don't even, I say no to everything because I'm sort of busy. But when I'm working stuff out, yeah, I run things by, if I go for a run and I've got an idea for a routine, I come back and I say, what do you think of this? And she says, please don't do that. And I know it's good. I know.

Yeah, now I don't even, I say no to everything because I'm sort of busy. But when I'm working stuff out, yeah, I run things by, if I go for a run and I've got an idea for a routine, I come back and I say, what do you think of this? And she says, please don't do that. And I know it's good. I know.

Yeah, now I don't even, I say no to everything because I'm sort of busy. But when I'm working stuff out, yeah, I run things by, if I go for a run and I've got an idea for a routine, I come back and I say, what do you think of this? And she says, please don't do that. And I know it's good. I know.

Shut the window.

Shut the window.

Shut the window.

You've got to think that it's not your baby.

You've got to think that it's not your baby.

You've got to think that it's not your baby.

Well, the thing is, I didn't invent the genre. In fact, my biggest influence, I think, writing it, that was someone else's work, was Spinal Tap, which is a fake documentary. That's just... I mean, no-one owns fake documentary. I suppose what was different, slightly different about it, was that it was... We left the boring bits in. Like, David Brent made bad jokes and no-one laughed.

Well, the thing is, I didn't invent the genre. In fact, my biggest influence, I think, writing it, that was someone else's work, was Spinal Tap, which is a fake documentary. That's just... I mean, no-one owns fake documentary. I suppose what was different, slightly different about it, was that it was... We left the boring bits in. Like, David Brent made bad jokes and no-one laughed.

Well, the thing is, I didn't invent the genre. In fact, my biggest influence, I think, writing it, that was someone else's work, was Spinal Tap, which is a fake documentary. That's just... I mean, no-one owns fake documentary. I suppose what was different, slightly different about it, was that it was... We left the boring bits in. Like, David Brent made bad jokes and no-one laughed.

I wanted that... I want to explore that gap, that social... Because that's the worst thing for me. I don't get embarrassed, but I get embarrassed for other people. If we're in a group and someone makes a bad joke and no one laughs, I just want to go back in time and go, right, do it like this. Let's do this again.

I wanted that... I want to explore that gap, that social... Because that's the worst thing for me. I don't get embarrassed, but I get embarrassed for other people. If we're in a group and someone makes a bad joke and no one laughs, I just want to go back in time and go, right, do it like this. Let's do this again.

I wanted that... I want to explore that gap, that social... Because that's the worst thing for me. I don't get embarrassed, but I get embarrassed for other people. If we're in a group and someone makes a bad joke and no one laughs, I just want to go back in time and go, right, do it like this. Let's do this again.

What you've done so well is... Anyone listening, Arrested is short for Arrested Development. It's a TV show. He just... He leaves off the last word. It's just that we haven't got... There's limited time. I've worked out that if we said Arrested Development every time, it'd be three months of our life.

What you've done so well is... Anyone listening, Arrested is short for Arrested Development. It's a TV show. He just... He leaves off the last word. It's just that we haven't got... There's limited time. I've worked out that if we said Arrested Development every time, it'd be three months of our life.

What you've done so well is... Anyone listening, Arrested is short for Arrested Development. It's a TV show. He just... He leaves off the last word. It's just that we haven't got... There's limited time. I've worked out that if we said Arrested Development every time, it'd be three months of our life.

Well, that to me is the comedy. Someone doing something weird is one part of it, but it's how does it fall? What's the fallout of it? That's what's always interesting to me. And again, I learned that from Laurel and Hardy. So Stan doing something stupid was funny, but it affecting Ollie was the joke for me. That's what comedy, some comedy didn't have before that. There was no fallout.