Yes it was her husband.
Ricky seemed to look sick after every training session!!!!!
Does Gervais think he is too big for Panel shows? Page 6
I used to have fantasies about becoming famous enough to go on that Celebrity Boxing thing, and going up against my dream opponent, Vernon Kaye. I'd love to smash the living shit out of his rib cage.
Quote: catskillz @ August 15, 2007, 5:49 PMI used to have fantasies about becoming famous enough to go on that Celebrity Boxing thing, and going up against my dream opponent, Vernon Kaye. I'd love to smash the living shit out of his rib cage.
Oh come on, with him its the face surely!?
Oh and in answer to the topic question, Godot I can't believe you are going on about Ricky Gervais's weight again. 
Who cares about Gervais? If any of that lot would be ace on a panel show, it's Pilkington. I would love - LOVE - to see Karl on Q.I.
If Karl Pilkington could be persuaded to appear on Q.I., the comedy panel show could evolve to an entirely new level.
I agree, who cares about Ricky Gervais, I think we're ALL too big for panel shows... They are moronic formula-nonsense for plebs and couch potatoes. Enjoy BSGer's, enjoy! Fiddle while Rome burns! Mock the flamin' Buzzcock! Pshaw! 
I think panel shows are great, they have evolved into an interesting way of putting stand-up material on TV, eg Mock the Week where the comedians prepare stuff in advance on certain topics and then "randomly" get asked about them. (I know someone who has worked on MTW, and of course they aren't giving "spontaneous" answers to "random" questions. Which is good. I'd rather see something rehearsed and funny than something improvised and shit.)
So you'll be voting Conservative rather than Labor?
Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 3 2008, 6:25 AM BSTI agree, who cares about Ricky Gervais, I think we're ALL too big for panel shows... They are moronic formula-nonsense for plebs and couch potatoes. Enjoy BSGer's, enjoy! Fiddle while Rome burns! Mock the flamin' Buzzcock! Pshaw!
Oh no, Frankie! Not every panel show, surely? Some of 'em, yes. But QI is brilliant.
Quote: Tommy Power @ October 3 2008, 4:33 AM BSTWho cares about Gervais? If any of that lot would be ace on a panel show, it's Pilkington. I would love - LOVE - to see Karl on Q.I.
If Karl Pilkington could be persuaded to appear on Q.I., the comedy panel show could evolve to an entirely new level.
I think Karl Pilkington on Q.I. would be the best thing in the world ever. Dear God, please make it happen!
I hate panel shows. I particularly hate Alan f**king Davis. He acts like a kid, and he's about 43.
What do you expect him to do on panel shows, discuss mortgage rates and pension plans?
Quote: NickTheDon @ October 3 2008, 10:05 AM BSTI think Karl Pilkington on Q.I. would be the best thing in the world ever. Dear God, please make it happen!
Ha, yeah he'd be ideal. He'd be the Boris to QI's HIGNFY.
Quote: catskillz @ October 4 2008, 4:07 PM BSTI hate panel shows. I particularly hate Alan f**king Davis. He acts like a kid, and he's about 43.
I really like him. His stand up is great as well.
I think we should ease-up on Ricky a bit. Yes, he's the type of bloke who seems to polarise opinion. So what if he doesn't do panel shows? We don't own him, so if he doesn't want/hasn't got the time to do them, so what? I very much doubt he considers them "beneath" him. Personally I would love to see him on either 'QI' or 'Would I Lie To You?'. I expect if the call came from either Stephen Fry or David Mitchell (both of whom he is a big fan) he would show-up if his schedule allowed.
There's too many people who don't distinguish between his carefully-crafted obnoxious, arrogant persona and what is apparently a very humble and warm person in private. (Without the arrogant, obnoxious persona, for those who loved it, we wouldn't have had 'The Office', of course.)
And I would just like people to remember that this guy didn't taste any kind of tangible success until he was well into his 30's. As someone who is only experiencing some kind of success in comedy myself at the age of 35, I can understand why he's doing what he wants to do, not what he may have been advised to do by the "people who know". His attitude is "I'll do what I want to do", which is both brave and refreshing. If people don't like what he does, he'll have no complaints, will he? Let's not knock a British success who's (let's face it, stunningly) translated his comedy across the world.
I remember Ricky's first appearances, on the 11 o'clock show, and him saying he was 37. I have to admit, at the time, I actually remember thinking 37 was quite old, for someone to be just getting into comedy, but now it doesn't seem that bad.
I think Ricky is excellent, and he does seem a very friendly, funny, rather charming sort of fellow off stage. He deserves every triumph that has come his way.