An Idiot Abroad.

[BaaBaa.]

Is it just me or does anyone else find Ricky Gervais irritatingly unfunny.

He's certainly marmite but I like him.

Not only was it less than subtly racist

Just wow!

And the rest was BS as well.

[MrPlum]

Not only was it less than subtly racist

Just wow!

The word for someone who takes the piss out of every 'funny foreigner' he encounters is what? Satire? Arrogant?

And the rest was BS as well.

Says you. His delivery IS depressing. The show sells itself on the fact that he is ignorant and base, that's why they call it an 'idiot' abroad. The cameras give us penises and cowshit. The dialogue is peppered with profanity and in some of the scenes he couldn't have been any more offensive to local sensitivities if he tried.

Here's an example of his base humour... He says "What's so good about The Amazon? Can't be that good; there are things in it that would rather live in me knob."

chortle, chortle.

Whilst on the Inca trail Karl visits a doctor in order to check he is in good shape for the trek. The doctor gets out a 'bag o shite', as Karl puts it.

guffaw, guffaw.

Later he says "Well, that Guinea Pig is gonna have the major shits then".

snort, snort.

'If you’re not happy looking a knob in the face, there’s something wrong with you.'

Gervais looks expectantly at the camera... cue...

snigger snigger

It's even featured on Wiki. Pilkington further spread his celebrity after uttering the phrase "I could eat a knob at night" on the podcast The Ricky Gervais Show.

You've got to be kidding if you think everyone is impressed by this? I grew out of laughing at armpit farts when I was 14. Now talentless 'idiots' earn big money to offend on mainstream media and they are 'celebrities'.

"Yeah! Yeah! But you just don't get it!"

You are right. I don't.

[BaaBaa.]

Get off your high horse, some of us look at life a little more light hearted.

The whole point of the show is that he's ignorant to all things foreign, he's a little Englander everyman.

They have the biggest selling podcasts of all time and all of their shows have been massive successes so I guess it's you who's in the minority, seriously, lighten up.

You thought Transformers was some sort of pro war propaganda so I rest my case.

Also thought you might want to bookmark this Mr P. www.pilkipedia.co.uk/

[MrPlum]

Get off your high horse, some of us look at life a little more light hearted.

Tell that to Pilkington. The whole show revolves around HIS misery and depression.

They have the biggest selling podcasts of all time and all of their shows have been massive successes so I guess it's you who's in the minority.

Charlie Drake, Norman Wisdom, Les Dawson, Ronnie Barker, Dave Allen, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, 'Mr Bean' were also massive successes and I enjoyed them. They were genuinely funny family entertainment. Everyone could appreciate them. Can't you see the difference between clean humour and anal? This stuff used to be confined to crude comedians like Lenny Henry on a pub crawl.

No-one spoke of people being on their 'High Horses' during the period of these comedians. Standards of taste and decency were accepted as normal. Now the new 'normal' has been gradually moved lower by a media bent on undermining public decency, so, of course, those who still subscribe to the previous standards will appear to be on their 'high horse', when it's more accurate to say others have lowered the bar. I haven't changed. Why should I? It was how I was raised.

You thought Transformers was some sort of pro war propaganda so I rest my case.

Not much of a case... http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/12 ... on-holl-1/

'After the Pentagon helped rewrite the script, Bay got access to helicopters, warships and — for just $25,000 an hour — F-22 stealth fighters.'

'"As far as I know, this is the biggest joint military operation movie ever made," said Bay’s liaison officer from the Army.'

Also thought you might want to bookmark this Mr P. http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/

Thanks. I've listed it under 'Depressing and Crude'.

Anyway. I apologize for mugging your topic. At least I made the effort to watch it.

[BaaBaa.]

Obviously it's something we are not going to agree on.



Enjoy!

[STEVE G]

At least I made the effort to watch it.

You got further than me MrP; after reading the name, I decided that probably wouldn't be my sort of thing.
I'm not knocking the show as I haven't watched it, but obviously different things appeal to different types of people.

[BaaBaa.]

At least I made the effort to watch it.

You got further than me MrP; after reading the name, I decided that probably wouldn't be my sort of thing.
I'm not knocking the show as I haven't watched it, but obviously different things appeal to different types of people.

It's just lighthearted entertainment, a travel show with a deadpan idiot in the place of Michael Palin.

Not the devil personified that Mr P would have you believe anything remotely edgy is.

Not that this is even edgy, he just talks like most people do IMHO.

[moja]

The 2nd series has just started the theme this time is "the bucket list"

[sateeb]

Just downloaded the first episode.........

[BaaBaa.]

Just downloaded the first episode.........

Waiting for a 3 episode session, heard the 1st is the weakest.

Looking forward to them all though.

[sateeb]

Thought Ep 1 was quite funny...especially when he mentions kids and x boxes....LOL moment!!!

[Lee1975]

I enjoyed the first episode, when he jumped off that tree from all of 5ft had me in stitches

[BaaBaa.]

Episode 3 was 90% based in Thailand and was the best of this series, Ricky conveniently sent Karl at Songkran time where he gets dressed up as a Katoey and tries some blindfolded Muay Thai. Brilliant.