Comment by mvdtnz
1 day ago
That author on Slough,
> Ricky Gervais encapsulated its brutalist new town grim with ‘The Office’ before giving up and writing lame punching-down anti-woke “gags” for the educationally subnormal
That's a very strange reading on Gervais' post-The Office career. After The Office he did things like Extras, a sitcom about extras on TV and film sets, Derek, an emotional series about a well-meaning care worker who thinks it's more important to be kind than popular, and After Life, a series about a man who loses his wife young and how he deals with grief.
He also did The Invention of Lying, which, 16 years since I watched it in the cinema, is still the answer I give without hesitation to "what's the worst movie you've ever seen?"
For me that has to be High Life. Pitched to me as "Robert Pattinson has to to take care of a baby in space", in reality it was basically a side plot to "serial killers and rapists are stuck on a spaceship together" and all that implies.
Yeah I don't know, you're selling it well. I kind of want to watch that.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)
There’s also his standup career of being extra atheist as if the world has never seen a famous lapsed Christian Brit
I concluded Noah's Arc was bollocks when I was 8 so I don't know why he goes on about it at his age
Because people in power of a similar age still go on about how they think it’s true?
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Because it was edgy and transgressive when he was doing it 15 years ago.
Nowadays not so much.
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Have you not been following the news this week? A tremendous number of people still put a huge amount of stock into their silly superstitions.
There's good money in it, I expect.
Plus, there's no harm in making a career (or a joke) out of being vaguely anti-nonsense.
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> lapsed Christian Brit
I don't think he is a lapsed Christian though?