The Office (overrated though), Extras, and his podcast(though mostly due to Karl Pilkington) were good everything else he's done has been terrible

Ricky G is an unfunny douchebag.

hating Ricky Gervais is basically either

a) falling for his act
b) a massive sign of stupidity

he's the greatest British comedy writer of the 21st century. Fact. And anyone who didn't even get a small laugh out of his stints hosting the Golden Globes is lying to themselves.

Ricky Gervais just isn't funny imo, and his version of The Office is so painful that I can't give any other version a chance.

Its not very often you are right but you are on this occasion.

Hmm wouldn't go as far as saying he's the greatest of the 21st century. And I did enjoy him grilling the uppity celebs at golden globes but majority of the time it was more ohhh :shocked: no he di' nt! Rather than ROFLMAO

Hero.

:worship:

Ricky Gervais, much like Frankie Boyle, makes me laugh and he makes me cringe too. What I don't get is the adoration of Ricky Gervais on this thread, and the absolute screaming hatred of Frankie Boyle on another. On the Frankie Boyle thread people are moaning that he ridicules disabled people. Ricky Gervais freely uses the word 'mong' and is unapologetic. Frankie Boyle is branded a racist while Ricky Gervais gets a laugh out of the Holocaust. They're cut from the same cloth, so I don't understand how one is worse than the other.

Agree with this. He's a comedy genius.

I disagree with that. Yeah, Gervais might have a few questionable jokes but not the majority of his stuff imo and certainly not his TV shows. Not that I have a "screaming hatred" for Frankie Boyle anyway, I find him unfunny and the majority of stuff seems to be tasteless drivel.

This

I like The Office, but other than that what has he done that's so memorable? :shrug:

Extras, presented the Golden Globes 3 years running........

I don't like Extras. I think he's ok, but he's not my favourite comedian.

I honestly cannot stand him. I find nothing about him funny whatsoever. His writing is creative, that I'll give you that.

I prefer Lee Evans and Michael McEntire.

Oh God I can't stand Lee Evans, making stupid noises and faces might have made me laugh when I was 5...........

They always make me laugh. I like Jasper Carrott as well. :joker:

ricky is well overated as a stand up act,
the office was very funny beacuse it was fresh,it had lots of other great charachters.
ricky in the company of karl pilkington and stephen merchant, also works due to the comedy energy between them.
without the office we would not even be talking about rickygervais.

That's just your opinion though, I loved Extras, maybe even a bit more than The Office

You forgot derek niamh....how could you?

I like The Office. The american version is also good. I love Steve Carrell! :lovedup:

Maybe "screaming hatred" was a little strong LOL...

From a personal point of view I found Gervais's Holocaust jokes extremely tasteless. I suppose it depends on your point of view what's funny and what's not. There is no right answer.

Yes of course it was, I'm not going to defend him on that one, I do believe somethings shouldn't be joked about, but in general I do find him funny