Is it any wonder I reject you first? David Bowie rips up Ricky Gervais on Extras. And, while I’m snarfing arch Youtube links from Ed Rants, see also Kirk and Spock get “Closer,” in the Trent Reznor sense. (Some profanity…but you’ve probably heard the song by now.)
Tag: Extras
Mr. Burns & Mr. Brent.
“He caught our tone exactly, and then added his own Ricky Gervais/David Brent patheticness.” By way of Plasticbag, The Office and Extras mastermind Ricky Gervais has written and will star in a forthcoming Simpsons episode, and Matt Groening wants more. “[Gervais] moves into The Simpson household with Marge as the family take part in an episode of Wife Swap, while Homer moves in with his wife.”
Finding Naziland.
“That’s why I’m doing it. Schindler’s bloody List, The Pianist…Oscars coming out their ass.” Kate Winslet bucks for an award (by way of Godwin’s Law) in a new clip from Extras, the forthcoming show by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant of The Office. (More clips here.)
Casting Call.
Get your agent on the phone…Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Extras, their six-episode follow-up to The Office, gets picked up by HBO for broadcast Stateside. And there was much rejoicing (at least in these parts.)