Ricky Gervais

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.

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.

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.

No one got hurt in the wake of someone doing something ridiculous. Like people would be acting and they'd be saying stupid things, but they'd be acting like he'd said something normal. And so you have to react to that.

No one got hurt in the wake of someone doing something ridiculous. Like people would be acting and they'd be saying stupid things, but they'd be acting like he'd said something normal. And so you have to react to that.

No one got hurt in the wake of someone doing something ridiculous. Like people would be acting and they'd be saying stupid things, but they'd be acting like he'd said something normal. And so you have to react to that.

Well, that's another very good point because that's why, again, David Brent was the boss. And so he shouldn't have been acting like that. He should have been the grown-up, but he was acting like the child. So again, the big thing there was men as boys and women as adults, which again, I think is reflective. But again, Laurel and Hardy did that.

Well, that's another very good point because that's why, again, David Brent was the boss. And so he shouldn't have been acting like that. He should have been the grown-up, but he was acting like the child. So again, the big thing there was men as boys and women as adults, which again, I think is reflective. But again, Laurel and Hardy did that.

Well, that's another very good point because that's why, again, David Brent was the boss. And so he shouldn't have been acting like that. He should have been the grown-up, but he was acting like the child. So again, the big thing there was men as boys and women as adults, which again, I think is reflective. But again, Laurel and Hardy did that.

Laurel and Hardy, they were children and their wives had to catch them doing naughty things. Who was it that said steal from the best? And I certainly have in, um, you know, Lauren Hardy and, and, uh, Chris Guest and those guys.

Laurel and Hardy, they were children and their wives had to catch them doing naughty things. Who was it that said steal from the best? And I certainly have in, um, you know, Lauren Hardy and, and, uh, Chris Guest and those guys.

Laurel and Hardy, they were children and their wives had to catch them doing naughty things. Who was it that said steal from the best? And I certainly have in, um, you know, Lauren Hardy and, and, uh, Chris Guest and those guys.