Gervais/Merchant...Extras Debuts Tonight at 9 on BBC2

[stavros]

It's still merely OK. I don't really laugh uproariously at many things although i find a lot of things very funny. This however didn't exercise my mirth glands very much. It still seems to me Gervais trading on his own public image, something Larry David does to utter perfection in CYE. The female lead who's name I forget is a lot better than Andy but they seem to limit her bits for more of him. I just feel a lot of people are looking at through Gervais&Merchant-tinted glasses.

 

[JLN88]

I didnt really like the first episode much, wasnt really much more than we've seen from the office, but i liked the last one a lot more, the way andy tried to cheer up ross by telling him bout his uniform was hilarious, or so i thought! Though i doubt this will hit off in america like they're hoping, theres to many references to british stuff that theys wont get, not that i care.

 

[mack]

And SAS = "Special Army Soilders"

Just watching it again - "Super Army Soldiers"

 

[LostNotFound]

"come on love you're like a dead horse.. put a bit of minge round it!"

 

[mack]

"come on love you're like a dead horse.. put a bit of minge round it!"

Can't wait to use that one!! - wanders off to find Mrs Mack

 

[Clintons Cat]

CYE is light years better than The Office ever was. CYE actually seems quite British to me, with the central character trapped in a situation they are not suited to (see Father Ted, Blackadder, Basil Fawlty, Alan Partridge). The Office wasn't as original as it's been portrayed; I seem to remember a series of mock fly-on-the-walls from a few years ago on BBC2, although it's name escapes me now.

Operation Good Guys,very under-rated imho.

 

[butchersapron]

That's a disgraceful thing to say.

 

[Clintons Cat]

Fair enough,any particular reason why?

 

[butchersapron]

The general not very goodness when compared to other stuff. Not that good of an argument i know, and some things are worth second chances...i could be wrong...i think things that are missed the first time aroind but which have quality often build up a groundswell of critcial support over the next year or so, but i've never heard anyone other than you even mentioning it. As said above, i might be well wrong though - i did not like what i saw of it.

 

[Clintons Cat]

thats kind of what i meant,sorry

most people haven't heard of it but it was fairly good parody of the doccusoap format,although the awkwardness towards camera did at times come over as very wooden which might have been off-putting to some.

good but more in a endsleigh league way to the Offices championship though.

 

[on_the_fly]

God last nights was sooo darn cringe worthy, kind of tv u watch from behind a cusion !

 

[onenameshelley]

i have to say that me and etnea were pissing ourselves over Kate Winslet

 

[binka]

i liked operation good guys, got the first series on video. no where near as good as the office but still pretty enjoyable imo.

 

[mk12]

I cried laughing at yesterday's episode. The best so far, in my opinion.

 

[onenameshelley]

I cried laughing at yesterday's episode. The best so far, in my opinion.

well i thought so.

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

kate winslet's dirty talk was pure class, going on about that purple headed womb ferret

 

[rennie]

made me cringe... again and again n again... winslet was alright as well!

 

[stavros]

Once again it was alright. It just seems a shame that this is publicised to the hilt when the vastly superior The Thick Of It was relegated to only BBC3 with no promotion. Armando Iannucci shits all over Gervais.

 

[Shirl]

I thought it was brilliant. I didn't watch The Office much so maybe I'm not jaded by overkill.

 

[DexterTCN]

....fanny

 

[jeff_leigh]

Les Dennis is on it tonight, supposed to be the best one according to gervais

 

[mk12]

It can't be much better than "gervais-at-the-christian-meeting".

 

[LostNotFound]

"this is bloomin' riding right up me clunge"

 

[oooomegrapes]

hilare......the father and daughter act

 

[energy]

That was pretty depressing for a "comedy"

 

[lighterthief]

Compulsive viewing, in a car crash kind of way. I'm loving this series.

 

[Termite Man]

Les Dennis is on it tonight, supposed to be the best one according to gervais

I didn't think this one was that good ! Les Dennis in bed is what really made the episode !

 

[JWH]

Great in parts but a bit patchy. The Scottish character is obviously just a female version of the Gervais character.

Les Dennis did well... (I would never have believed I would say that!)

 

[Wide Eyed Angel]

Les Dennis did well... (I would never have believed I would say that!)

our survey said *ding*

 

[kyser_soze]

Last night's ep was some of the darkest, bleakest comedy I've ever seen, and respect to Dennis for doing it - whether he's treating is as some kind of therapy or not, he's got some balls.

And WTF was going on with that fathe/daughter thing? WRONG-GER!! Esp. the Bucks Fizz cover...

Not as laugh out loud funny as The Office but very very good.