Ricky Gervais writes an episode of the Simpsons
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Ricky Gervais writes an episode of the Simpsons
This looks good! Shame i aint got sky.
The Simpsons
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Homer Simpson This is Your Wife
Here it is, at long last, the eagerly awaited Ricky Gervais-scripted episode. Happily, considering the level of expectation, it doesn't disappoint. Gervais stars as Charlie, a David Brentish figure who's unhappily married to a cruel, high-achieving woman. Having agreed to take part in the reality TV show Mother Flippers (a dig at Wife Swap) with the Simpsons, Charlie gets Marge and promptly falls in love. Gervais happily follows in true Simpsons' tradition, by biting the hand that feeds him, with stinging swipes aimed directly at the show's home channel, the Fox network, and more generally at barrel-scraping, so-called reality shows - Dwarf or Midget: America Decides is a particularly inspired example. But it's out-and-out funny, too. The sequence where Charlie serenades Marge with a terrible self-penned song (à la David Brent), while doing little to cover his modesty, is inspired.
The Simpsons
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Homer Simpson This is Your Wife
Here it is, at long last, the eagerly awaited Ricky Gervais-scripted episode. Happily, considering the level of expectation, it doesn't disappoint. Gervais stars as Charlie, a David Brentish figure who's unhappily married to a cruel, high-achieving woman. Having agreed to take part in the reality TV show Mother Flippers (a dig at Wife Swap) with the Simpsons, Charlie gets Marge and promptly falls in love. Gervais happily follows in true Simpsons' tradition, by biting the hand that feeds him, with stinging swipes aimed directly at the show's home channel, the Fox network, and more generally at barrel-scraping, so-called reality shows - Dwarf or Midget: America Decides is a particularly inspired example. But it's out-and-out funny, too. The sequence where Charlie serenades Marge with a terrible self-penned song (à la David Brent), while doing little to cover his modesty, is inspired.
DJ Krave wrote:i enjoyed this, ricky gervais just how he was in The Office
Wasn't that funny at all... it was just Gervais doing the same character, again. I'll bet Fox only allowed him to do it if it was basically David Brent in the Simpsons. Might as well just watch The Office again.
His character even manages an office.
He just doesn't seem to be able to do any other kind of character, which is dissapointing considering all the publicity he gets. I excepted a bit more.
yea I was a bit dissapointed to be honest, it seemd like a bit of a poorer version of david brent, ricky gervais's standup is brilliant so I was hoping it might have at least a couple of good jokes in, I wouldnt be suprised if he had alot of restrictions on what he could do and didnt really have as much to do with the writing as it was made out.
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