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[Paute]

Week two hundred and eleven - March/April 2012

Did a Q and A at Bafta after a screening of Derek.

It was honestly one of the most enjoyable ones I've ever done. I was interviewed by the lovely Boyd Hilton, who was great, but the audience were amazing and their reaction was genuinely heartwarming.

It's being shown on Channel 4 on April 12. I'll post some trailers when they're ready.

I won another award! I love the fact that it's a lifetime achievement award. Ha ha. Thanks again to The Shorty Awards and everyone who voted.

The artwork for Season 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show has been released.



It's the best series yet and there's some audio you haven't heard before too. The stuff we did exclusively for the allied forces for example.

No air dates for the rest of the world yet, but I'll let you now as soon as they are confirmed.

[Paute]

Week two hundred and twelve - April 2012

Me Bless America!

I am everywhere,
and looking over you.



Not sure who comes off worse in that picture. Karl in a little fig leaf, or me in a pink dress?

Anyway, only a couple of weeks before the 3rd season of The Ricky Gervais Show returns to HBO.

I'll be doing another round of chat shows next week including The Daily Show and my 22nd Letterman!

Derek, my little one-off comedy drama, will air on Channel 4 on April 12th. [see the first trailers here]



Karl plays my best friend, who moans all the time, looks gimp and has a head like a fucking orange, by the way.

And yes, my jaw aches and I get a stiff neck from being hunched up all the time when I'm playing Derek. I suffer for my art, and now I want you to suffer for it too.

So please tune in.

[Paute]

The Newyorker wrote:

Week two hundred and twelve - April 2012

The most beautiful weekend in New York.



Central Park first thing in the morning is like Dog Heaven.

Hundreds of the little mutts just running around shouting "this is the best day ever."

The one thing that Central Park doesn't have, that most parks in London have, is the bloke without a shirt or front teeth, drinking Special Brew and taking his pitbull for a walk.

Still, you can't have everything.

I'm over here doing promo for The Ricky Gervais Show 3, which premieres on HBO April 12. I'll be popping up on Letterman, The Daily Show, Opie and Anthony, Today Show, CBS Early Show... Exhausting - sometimes working for over an hour a day. Still, mustn't grumble.

Cinema Blend ran a couple of exclusive clips.

Did an interview with Nicky Clark in the run up to Derek on C4 this Thursday.

The response so far, has been amazing by the way. Hope you enjoy it.



Cheers.

[Paute]

#BeMoreLikeDerek wrote:

So the pilot of Derek aired on Channel 4 last week and despite the criticism (from people who hadn't even seen it), I couldn't have hoped for a better reaction.



I really haven't had a reaction like it for anything I've done. So thank you if you wrote a review, a blog, a tweet, told a friend, or just watched it and enjoyed it. Thanks for watching it even if you didn't enjoy it. That's all I ask really. Cheers.

I shot it in 4 days (still wrapping at 3pm. No point in killing yourself is there?)

It was meant to be a non-broadcast pilot, which I always insist on doing, but then I had a cunning plan. I knew there would be the usual furore. You don't need a superpower to see that coming, as it happens with every project I do. It doesn't bother me. It's just so boring and predictable. But what I've also noticed, is that this usually dies down after the first episode, and the wind changes, so to speak. People make their own minds up basically. So I thought, let's put the pilot out as the first episode so people can get over all the noise and prejudice for when the series starts.

I'll effectively be starting with the second episode. Anyway I think the strategy worked. Everyone has seen it, gets it, and hopefully all the bollocks about it being controversial or cruel won't cloud the launch of the series. I'm half way through writing the next 6 by the way.

Lot's have people have asked me why it's not on the BBC. Well, I didn't offer it to them this time for a very good reason. I promised Channel 4 over ten years ago that if I ever developed DEREK, they would have first refusal. I think they did a great job of promoting it too. Derek likes Channel 4 too, as his favourite shows are Deal Or No Deal and Secret Millionaire.

Here is Derek's favourite YouTube clip. I have had this fucking song in my head for 6 months. Now it's your turn.

And here is the beautiful piece of music I used at the end.

If you missed it you can watch it on demand. (UK only I think. Sorry rest of the world. You will have to wait or do something internety like you crazy kids do. But I do not condone such fucking illegal behaviour obviously.)

[Spuddy]

He sort of seems nice again. Maybe he's just an arse when his shit work is getting slammed, but when he does something that deserves some praise he can relax.

[Vahl]

Sorry Ricky but us big mouths couldn't help our little selves.

[ike]

This'd probably be a good time to wheel out the ol' Rule 1 reminder, y'know... Just for future reference an' that.
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[Paute]

Hello Oslo!
So, I played my first European gigs. Well, my first gigs outside America or the UK & Ireland, in fact. I did two nights in the wonderful city of Oslo.

They were amazing. I sort of did my "greatest hits with a few new tracks" so to speak. It was really weird actually. I was worried about people "knowing" the routines but if I started a routine that they knew, they all cheered. I'm like The Rolling Stones. Ha ha (Gervais claims he's bigger than Jagger.)

The mere mention of Karl got an enormous cheer too. He really is a global village idiot now. My work on this planet is done.

Sorry if you couldn't get a ticket. The gigs sold out in minutes, but don't worry, I'm going to come back to do more dates in Norway and the rest of Scandinavia as soon as I get time.

The promotors were great. They put me in the same hotel suite as they put Prince when he played here. He left it very neat and tidy I must say. He probably had the same complicated rider as me too.



Jane came over with me so we could also have a little weekend break. We're going to see James Taylor tonight in the same venue I played.
I didn't drink all those beers so he'll probably have extra. Lucky.

The Ricky Gervais Show Season 3 started on HBO this week. We kicked off with Karl's second ever movie idea. You know the one. A man called Bryan, played by Ted Danson, takes over the dead body of Tom Cruise to complete Mission Impossible 8 because the posters for it were already up.



It starts in the UK on May 1st on E4 by the way.

[knlazar]

Can't find exactly what I want to ask so I'm posting here. Is anyone aware of a source for the actual 100 things on the original bucket list? The 100 things that Karl got to pick from, I mean. Thanks.

[shawnadancing]

I don't think there was an official list that he chose from. Probably something Ricky & Steve put together, & one that they knew they could manipulate somehow (dolphins to sharks, etc).... These lists can be found all over the web & in books.

WELCOME!!

[shawnadancing]

I miss Blogger Ricky. He doesn't do it as much as he used to ever since Twitter.

Managed to do a little bit of promo for The Ricky Gervais Show Series 3 with Karl before he set off on his epic journey with Warwick for An Idiot Abroad: The Short Way Round.

I spoke to them both today. Warwick is having a great time. Karl is a bit annoyed that Warwick is having a great time.

"Tell him it's not a holiday." Haha. Perfect.

It will be on Sky One HD in December and the rest of the world soon after that.

Oh and The Ricky Gervais Show Series 2 is available to own on DVD from June 25th (Amazon UK link) Uncle Ricky's Birthday!

So An Idiot Abroad 3:The Short Way Round is underway.




This time I've given Karl a little pal to keep him company and I've sent the unlikely pair along the Marco Polo route from Italy to China.

The three of us did a bit of filming this week where I explained the route and schedule etc. One of the funniest couple of hours I've ever spent. Karl seemed to be obsessed with the idea that Warwick would hold him back, complain about being tired, ask Karl to carry stuff for him, and might possibly "fall down a hole" ????.

Anyway, he can't pull out now, he's in too deep. Haha.

We did T4 together this week to promote The Ricky Gervais Show.




Karl hated it of course but he was great. He even did some new RockBuster clues. He also did a wonderful motivational speech for Britain's youth.

Inspirational.

[Calum]

and might possibly "fall down a hole" ????.

he's been watching LTS.

[Paute]

I'm thinking of doing one of those crappy little Xmas books that people give as presents but no one reads. You know the ones. The ones with titles like 'Do Ants Fucking Fart?' and 'Britain's Shittiest Rapists' etc.

I thought it would be good to write a paragraph or two about all the things Karl was right about, even though at the time I said he was talking bollocks.

There are those virtual goggle things being developed now that he talked about (he got it a bit confused but still); there's the see through toaster, and then I discover there are monkeys being used to save pets from buildings with lots of grippage.



"The Genius Bollocks of Pilkington" £9.99
You'd buy it.

[mars bah bah bah]

I would indeed.

[RandyChimp]

I dunno why, but the "Do Ants Fucking Fart?" and "Britains Shittiest Rapists" bit made me laugh. Maybe I'm too tired.