Anyone watching 'Extras' staring Ricky Gervais? Is it just me, or do others find him totally....ahem...not funny? Once in a blue moon I see 'The Office' on UK Gold and think it is okay, but it isn't side splittingly funny, and to be quite honest, I find it kinda boring at times..... I have heard people call him a comedy genius......I don't agree......
Now, 'The Smoking Room' has me in stitches!
i agree with you there, EJ. it's not ;funny because it continuously teases one of more of the collegues. it would be funny if he actually got his comeuppance once in a while, you know, being really humbled. i find it boring.
give me the mighty boosh anytime ;D
If you want to see a good film & you have sky movies this Saturday PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN grate film & funny.
Two films I have lined up:
Excalibur
Joe Black
The second is a real weepie, okay I admit it, I am a bit of a softie !
I watched some of Extras and I stopped watching it in favour of the paper so it didn't do it for me either.  I missed wotsit Tate after that.  Was that good?  The trailer of the dog training class looked funny  :)
I used to like the office and that uncomfortably squirmy humour, especially when David B was in trouble with his suave boss  :)  Also I think every office has a Gareth in it  ;D (I think that was his name)
Have to agree with you there Emma. Cant stand the man and dint see a thing that is funny about him. Give me 'Teachers' or 'Two pints of lager' anyday. Totally hysterical. ;D ;D
Now Derek Meet Joe Black.............mmmmmmmmmmmm yummy Brad Pitt at his most most gorgeous :P :P :P :P The films not bad either ;)
I watched some of Extras and I stopped watching it in favour of the paper so it didn't do it for me either.  I missed wotsit Tate after that.  Was that good?  The trailer of the dog training class looked funny  :)
I used to like the office and that uncomfortably squirmy humour, especially when David B was in trouble with his suave boss  :)  Also I think every office has a Gareth in it  ;D (I think that was his name)
It was not until the thing got an award as comedy I even realised Office was supposed to be funny. So I watched 2 minutes of Extras and ditto. Both programs are about as funny as shifting 20 tons of manure with a spoon!
Phew, so there isn't something wrong with my sense of humour. ;D Love Pirates of the Carribean, or at least I assume I do as the 2 occassions I have seen it, I slept through the last 20 minutes!
Ricky definitley unfunny, thought it was me too!! Pirates of C? Sigh, Johny Depp and you slept!!!! My goodness, Em!! How could you!! Any news on cucumber...... :o Lottie ;D
Emma, i cannot stand that man, " funny" ??? i would sooner watch a fire go out.
Blimey, what a bunch of miserable get's. Can't stand him? have you met him? ???
Now I didn't say I didn't like him personally, I am sure he is a very nice man, kind to small children and animals.....I just don't think his comedies are very....comical.
I agree with you Emma, distinctly unfunny. I saw him portray his office persona on MTV links between programmes there, unaware that he had spun a career out of it on the Office series. I kept saying, who is that prat? Maybe if he is kind to children and animals, then he did a good job of writing himself as an @sshole.
As svea said, if he got his comeuppance a la Basil Fawlty, then it may have something.
He's full of it...
not my bag either~ mr gw & the snake find him side splittingly funny ??? ???
now what about the league of gentlemen ( all my boys love it )~i can't watch it , i just find all the characters totally repulsive
I really did like League of Gents - it did have it's very dark moments though I must say. I think it was very clever though and so many characters. Papa Lazaru gave my OH nightmares :o
How reassuring to hear other people say they didn't find 'The Office' funny. The bits I watched to try and see what people at work were talking about were painful & torturous - not amusing at all.
The bits I've seen of Extras didn't seem as cruel but not really funny.
And as for Big Brother .......
I thought it was just me ........ Thanks,Guys
Gail
SORRY. I think I will have to come out as a supporter of The Office. I thought it was a brilliant programme - certainly not roll around on the floor/big belly laughs funny, but very observational, understated & just verging on the edge of cringeworthy. Sadly I don't think Extras has hit the spot. There are some funny moments but a bit few & far between.
Don't watch normal TV so what time & side is this on.
Then can see how good or bad it is.
I have to say I've watched some episodes of the Office and not laughed. I also don't find the Smoking Room makes me laugh either,I think I'm too busy thinking "yuck" at the yellow walls! I like League of Gents but still mostly only have a smirk. The only thing I've laughed at recently was on Monkey Trousers....the geordie space mission thing and vic reeves doing that priest/vicar doing a sermon. His stupid voice cracks me up. Oh and Jonathan Ross usually can say something on his chat show that gets me giggling. I dunno, I must be miserable or something cos I rarely laugh at the stuff on the telly.
I remember one time having nothing to do one afternoon, catching one of the carry on films. It was the Cleopatra one. I've watched them so many times as a child,but this particular time it had me in stitches! This time I got the jokes! this time it amused me. I've been suprised by my reaction to that film ever since!
Also one time, my flatmate and I found ourselves watching "The Good The Bad and The Ugly", we sat there during the opening few minutes with tears rolling down our faces crying with laughter at that grotty character that Clint so hates. Can't remember the sequence now but it had us bad with laughter!
Eeee theres nowt better than a good old belly laugh is there. Cheers me up just thinking about it!
Don't get League of Gent's either. Friends of ours think I am weird. now Eddie Izzard or Billy Connoly make me larf out loud! It is funny the things different people find funny. Are you being served gets me! I just love John Inman!! ;D 'I'm free!' ;D
Now that made me laugh EJ..."I'm free" heehee!
I agree with you about Eddie Izzard and Billy Connoly!
I quite like Billy Connolly & Eddie Izard too, but I don't like (or haven't watched) any of the comedy series anyone has mentioned. The Office I just found embarrassing. Think my sense of humour is out of date: the only new comedy I've liked in the last couple of years is Green Wing. Bring back Yes Minister, Fawlty Towers, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Lovers ...
Quote from: TEL on July 30, 2005, 15:46:53
Don't watch normal TV so what time & side is this on.
Then can see how good or bad it is.
::) ??? What's 'Not' normal TV ??? or better still what's 'Normal TV'?
The office is a quality comedy show & it's supposed to make you cringe, I love all comedy except the weak American rubbish, Friends etc. or any camp comedian.
Billy Connoly is the master of standup but Ricky Gervaise is pretty good at it too
Little Britain is the best sketch show since Not the Nine O'clock News
Quote from: TEL on July 30, 2005, 15:46:53
Don't watch normal TV so what time & side is this on.
Then can see how good or bad it is.
I am sat here with News24 on in the background as usual - boring I am.
If you like a laugh and can understand the scottish wit then try watching
"Still gane" friday nights bbc 2
I thought the office was excellent too! Ricky in standup too. But extras (Fri bbc2 10pm) not very good. Didn't watch it this wek. Still game, yeah thats grown on me, leauge of gentleman was better on the radio, totally surreal! only thing I wouldn't miss is THE SIMPSONS!
Peter Ustinov made me laugh when he was on a chat show or doing something that was himself not an acting part ,if you know what I mean. Dave Allen is another who could make me titter. Funny funny men with a lovely warmth about them. Huh I feel a bit sad now thinking that we've lost them.