[Shaun]

If not ever. And I know it's ironic I'm posting it here, but still:

Youtube video

Amy: Andy, would you come to my Hello wedding?
Andy: To your Hello wedding?
Amy: Yeah. [when Andy doesn't answer] Are you all right?
Andy: No. [sighs] What are we doing? Selling ourselves, selling everything. "Happiest day of my life. Oh, quick, I'd better do the invites and bake a cake -- and get a press tent. Must have a press tent. It's a wedding." You know, "I must see pictures of myself with other people I'm in a program with. Oh, and now I'm pregnant! Maybe we should televise the birth, get Ruby Wax to present it. Maybe it'll make Jimmy Carr's Hundred Greatest Caesarians." [to Amy] I'm not having a go at you. I'm just sick of these celebrities, living their life out in the open all the time. Why would you do that? It's like these pop stars who choose the perfect moment to go into rehab. They call their publicist before they call a taxi! And they come out and they do their second autobiography. "This one's called Love Me or I'll Kill Myself!" Oh, kill yourself then. [Maggie, watching at home lying on the couch, lifts her head up] And the papers lap it up. They follow us round, and that makes people think they're important, and that makes us think we're important. [Maggie sits up] If they stopped following us round taking pictures of us, people wouldn't take to the streets going, "Ooh, quick, I need a picture of Cameron Diaz with a pimple!" They wouldn't care. They'd get on with something else! They'd get on with their lives. You open the paper, and you see a picture of Lindsay Lohan getting out of a car, and the headline is, "Cover up, Lindsay, we can see your knickers!" Course you can see her knickers; your photographer is lying in the road pointing his camera up her dress to see her knickers! You are literally the gutter press. [loudly, into his microphone] And **** you that make us this show as well. You can't wash your hands of this. You can't keep going, "Oh, it's exploitation but it's what the public want!" No! [Maggie watches openmouthed] The Victorian freak show never went away. Now it's called Big Brother. Or The X Factor, where in the preliminary rounds, we wheel out the bewildered to be sniggered at by multi-millionaires. And **** you for watching this at home. Shame on you. And shame on me. I'm the worst of all, 'cause I'm one of these people that goes, "Oh, I'm an entertainer. It's in my blood." Yeah, it's in my blood 'cause a real job's too hard. I would've loved to've been a doctor. Too hard. Didn't want to put the work in. Love to be a war hero; I'm too scared. [Maggie starts to cry] So I go, "It's what I do." And I have someone bollocked if my cappucino's cold, or if they look at me the wrong way. Do you know what a friend of mine once said? They said I'll never be happy 'cause I'll never be famous enough. And they were right. And if you're watching this, I'm so sorry. You're my best friend. You're my only friend. [struggling not to cry] And you never did anything wrong. It was everything else. And I'll never do that again, I'll never treat you like that again. And it's eating at me -- you asked me a stupid question once, and I still could have answered it, and I didn't, 'cause I'm so -- I'll answer it now. I'd be the penguin. [Maggie laughs] 'Cause I could eat the flying fish. I know what you're thinking: why doesn't the fish fly away? Well, they can't really fly. Sort of glide and flap. They should be called glidey flappy fish. [Maggie laughs again] I'm so sorry.

It's also an incredibly moving moment. :|

[Enid]

I loooove Extras and I looooove Ricky Gervais. This is such a great moment for Andy. Finally realising fame is not all what it's cracked up to be.

Great show.

[Tom]

Extras is the most overrated and boring thing ever.

[Stu]

Genius.

Tom you think Extras is boring and you prefer Ruth Lorenzo's version of Purple Rain? Your stock is dropping my friend .

[MarkWaldorf]

Originally Posted by Tom

Extras is the most overrated and boring thing ever.

so is ricky gervais.

[Enid]

I think my eyes are playing tricks on me...

[Crimson Dynamo]

i recall watching that classic moment and having a lot of dust in my eyes at the time, funnily enough it happened again.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by MarkWaldorf

so is ricky gervais.

did you see the thing about pigs flying in frozen hell?

for once we agree on something!!

[Niamh.]

haha, Ricky Gervais is brilliant

[\PJ/]

Ricky gervais is overated and i think he is but with some of the jobs he gets,we are in the minority.

[NettoSuperstar!]

Ricky Gervais da man and Extras brilliant utterly brilliant

[Stu]

I do agree that Ricky by himself is overrated. Especially his stand up. A lot of it is just pedantic, basic jokes, only Ricky is telling them in his pedantic, basic way.

See : Stewart Lee.

[ILoveTRW]

****e

[Shaun]

lmao, I do love how the only critics so far watch Benidorm, Coming of Age and The Real World respectively.

did any of you even READ or watch the quote in question? pathetic.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Shaun

lmao, I do love how the only critics so far watch Benidorm, Coming of Age and The Real World respectively.

did any of you even READ or watch the quote in question? pathetic.

yes. however I think Madge and her quotes **** allover that one

Stephanie Beacham gives them a good run for their money too. What ever comes out of her mouth is utter genius

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Shaun

lmao, I do love how the only critics so far watch Benidorm, Coming of Age and The Real World respectively.

did any of you even READ or watch the quote in question? pathetic.

yes i did but to be honest i not a fan of scripted tv, so my opinion means **** all

i can barely watch lost and skins

[Shaun]

We're falling on deaf ears.

[Tom]

The BBC doesn't do comedy, they don't know the meaning of the word. 98% of their efforts are awful, the other 2% are either bought in or are ruined in the end anyway. Not that ITV have much of a track record either ...

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by ILoveDC

yes i did but to be honest i not a fan of scripted tv,

but you watch The Real World?

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by Shaun

but you watch The Real World?

lol your so funny :|

i was waiting for that lol

[Firewire]

Originally Posted by Tom

The BBC doesn't do comedy, they don't know the meaning of the word. 98% of their efforts are awful, the other 2% are either bought in or are ruined in the end anyway. Not that ITV have much of a track record either ...

I hate Extras but...

The BBC don't do comedy?

Only Fools and Horses?
One Foot In The Grave?
Porridge?
Fawlty Towers?
The Royle Family?

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Tom

The BBC doesn't do comedy, they don't know the meaning of the word. 98% of their efforts are awful, the other 2% are either bought in or are ruined in the end anyway. Not that ITV have much of a track record either ...

Mm, the majority tends to be pretty awful. My Family, Two Pints, Coming of Age, Grownups, Miranda, Little Britain, Catherine Tate, Scallywagga...

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Jonathan.

I hate Extras but...

The BBC don't do comedy?

Only Fools and Horses?
One Foot In The Grave?
Porridge?
Fawlty Towers?
The Royle Family?

The Royle Family is irrelevant ... its made by ITV.

The other 4 are dinosaur comedies.

[Stu]

Only Fools & Horses is timeless. It hasn't aged a bit and never will.

[Firewire]

Originally Posted by Tom

The Royle Family is irrelevant ... its made by ITV.

The other 4 are dinosaur comedies.

Oh didn't know TRF was made by ITV.

And I disagree, I love those 4.