PrestwichPeteMcfc
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Looks like it's gonna be a 'marmite' programme.
I loved it.
I loved it.
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Derek
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johnny on the spot
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Re: Derek
I commented on this last time around and having seen it again my opinion hasn't changed. It's a snickering, weaselly snide at the vulnerable and not a patch on Peter Kay's Leonard.
I commented on this last time around and having seen it again my opinion hasn't changed. It's a snickering, weaselly snide at the vulnerable and not a patch on Peter Kay's Leonard.
PrestwichPeteMcfc
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Didn't think it was a piss take at all.
"If I'm autistic would it change me?
"No"
Would it kill me?"
"No"
Would I be a different person?
"No"
"then just leave it"
"If I'm autistic would it change me?
"No"
Would it kill me?"
"No"
Would I be a different person?
"No"
"then just leave it"
johnny on the spot
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Re: Derek
It's so blatant as to be trivial.
Compare that with Leonard's line:
'I know people think I'm odd'.
That's a line that stops the guffawing audience dead and is one of Kay's finest moments. Forget the 'Garlic Bread' shite and Paddy McGuinness, 'Leonard' is a fine piece of comedy and achieved more in half an hour than anything the slimy Gervais/Merchant duo could dream of with two series of Derek.
PrestwichPeteMcfc said:Didn't think it was a piss take at all.
"If I'm autistic would it change me?
"No"
Would it kill me?"
"No"
Would I be a different person?
"No"
"then just leave it"
It's so blatant as to be trivial.
Compare that with Leonard's line:
'I know people think I'm odd'.
That's a line that stops the guffawing audience dead and is one of Kay's finest moments. Forget the 'Garlic Bread' shite and Paddy McGuinness, 'Leonard' is a fine piece of comedy and achieved more in half an hour than anything the slimy Gervais/Merchant duo could dream of with two series of Derek.
Re: Derek
'What hand do you wipe your bum with?'
johnny on the spot said:PrestwichPeteMcfc said:Didn't think it was a piss take at all.
"If I'm autistic would it change me?
"No"
Would it kill me?"
"No"
Would I be a different person?
"No"
"then just leave it"
It's so blatant as to be trivial.
Compare that with Leonard's line:
'I know people think I'm odd'.
That's a line that stops the guffawing audience dead and is one of Kay's finest moments. Forget the 'Garlic Bread' shite and Paddy McGuinness, 'Leonard' is a fine piece of comedy and achieved more in half an hour than anything the slimy Gervais/Merchant duo could dream of with two series of Derek.
'What hand do you wipe your bum with?'
Re: Derek
Seriously this program was awful.
I've heard the whole "it's not supposed to be funny line" all day today, but there were tonnes of jokes in it, they just weren't funny.
Pilkington is only funny when he's candid (I.e. An Idiot Abroad - which itself has been balls after adding the dwarf), and the very fact he's exactly like he is in every program in Derek just confirms more my suspicions that Pilkington's persona has been an act all along.
Furthermore if Gervais wanted to draw attention to the living situations of the old, then fair enough, but that doesn't mean the show is suddenly good or entertaining.
Such a shame because I'm a massive Gervais fan.
Seriously this program was awful.
I've heard the whole "it's not supposed to be funny line" all day today, but there were tonnes of jokes in it, they just weren't funny.
Pilkington is only funny when he's candid (I.e. An Idiot Abroad - which itself has been balls after adding the dwarf), and the very fact he's exactly like he is in every program in Derek just confirms more my suspicions that Pilkington's persona has been an act all along.
Furthermore if Gervais wanted to draw attention to the living situations of the old, then fair enough, but that doesn't mean the show is suddenly good or entertaining.
Such a shame because I'm a massive Gervais fan.
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Re: Derek
Its the complete opposite and makes the 'vunerable' feel more at ease being accepted on a comedy level.
johnny on the spot said:It's a snickering, weaselly snide at the vulnerable
Its the complete opposite and makes the 'vunerable' feel more at ease being accepted on a comedy level.
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Re: Derek
You are borderline autistic, or have a disability or are educationally disadvantaged are you then to speak with such authority.
Or are you just farting?
Markt85 said:johnny on the spot said:It's a snickering, weaselly snide at the vulnerable
Its the complete opposite and makes the 'vunerable' feel more at ease being accepted on a comedy level.
You are borderline autistic, or have a disability or are educationally disadvantaged are you then to speak with such authority.
Or are you just farting?
Swales lives
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Re: Derek
I thought it was okay, but Gervais is always gonna get ripped to shreds on here.
Even if he got Baconface in a headlock and wrote "twat" on his forehead, live on TV, some on here would say it wasn't funny.
I thought it was okay, but Gervais is always gonna get ripped to shreds on here.
Even if he got Baconface in a headlock and wrote "twat" on his forehead, live on TV, some on here would say it wasn't funny.