Ricky Gervais
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It's so funny. It's so funny and sad at the same time that, I think the funniest characters, and obviously in real life, the documentary aspect of it, we like real life is the most dramatic and the funniest. Comedy and fiction can only try to emulate all those things in real life.
But someone trying to be funny and is successful isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny and wants to be taken seriously. Right. So... My favourite characters were those people that demanded being taken seriously. So it undermines everything.
But someone trying to be funny and is successful isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny and wants to be taken seriously. Right. So... My favourite characters were those people that demanded being taken seriously. So it undermines everything.
But someone trying to be funny and is successful isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny and wants to be taken seriously. Right. So... My favourite characters were those people that demanded being taken seriously. So it undermines everything.
Someone being pretentious and then slipping on a banana skin is funnier than a clown slipping on a banana skin because we know the clown doesn't care. He wants to slip on it. So I think when someone wants to be taken seriously or says things like, I am a comedian, That's funny. I remember getting a letter soon after the office, right, by someone writing to get a part.
Someone being pretentious and then slipping on a banana skin is funnier than a clown slipping on a banana skin because we know the clown doesn't care. He wants to slip on it. So I think when someone wants to be taken seriously or says things like, I am a comedian, That's funny. I remember getting a letter soon after the office, right, by someone writing to get a part.
Someone being pretentious and then slipping on a banana skin is funnier than a clown slipping on a banana skin because we know the clown doesn't care. He wants to slip on it. So I think when someone wants to be taken seriously or says things like, I am a comedian, That's funny. I remember getting a letter soon after the office, right, by someone writing to get a part.
And the letter started, Dear Mr. Gervais, I am a brilliant actor.
And the letter started, Dear Mr. Gervais, I am a brilliant actor.
And the letter started, Dear Mr. Gervais, I am a brilliant actor.
Yeah, desperation's funny. Anger's funny. People with no sense of humor is funny. People with no sense of humor is funny. The best.
Yeah, desperation's funny. Anger's funny. People with no sense of humor is funny. People with no sense of humor is funny. The best.
Yeah, desperation's funny. Anger's funny. People with no sense of humor is funny. People with no sense of humor is funny. The best.
So the fact that you're able to make people, you know, double over... Well, that's very interesting because I don't think you need... Stand-up's slightly different. Stand-up is slightly different to fiction in the sense that when you do a sitcom or a film or whatever...
So the fact that you're able to make people, you know, double over... Well, that's very interesting because I don't think you need... Stand-up's slightly different. Stand-up is slightly different to fiction in the sense that when you do a sitcom or a film or whatever...
So the fact that you're able to make people, you know, double over... Well, that's very interesting because I don't think you need... Stand-up's slightly different. Stand-up is slightly different to fiction in the sense that when you do a sitcom or a film or whatever...
You do your best and you try and make the plot work and the characters work and you do all that and then you put it out there and there's nothing you can do about it. With stand-up, you do it every night and the audience, it's more like evolution by natural selection because they choose the bits for you. It's more like a science because it either works or it doesn't.
You do your best and you try and make the plot work and the characters work and you do all that and then you put it out there and there's nothing you can do about it. With stand-up, you do it every night and the audience, it's more like evolution by natural selection because they choose the bits for you. It's more like a science because it either works or it doesn't.
You do your best and you try and make the plot work and the characters work and you do all that and then you put it out there and there's nothing you can do about it. With stand-up, you do it every night and the audience, it's more like evolution by natural selection because they choose the bits for you. It's more like a science because it either works or it doesn't.
And by the end, you've got a perfect thing that works every night to everyone around the world because it's tried and tested. They've chosen it for you. So that's slightly different. So what you don't want with stand-up is an audience to feel sorry for you because you haven't got time. You don't want that. No, you don't want that. No, because it's the purest desire.