Meet Ricky, a fat, smug, talentless mockney, with the IQ of a gnat. Ricky enjoys using lots of swear words 'cos 'ees hard. He 'as a lotta mouth and is in yer face and get this - 'ees a controversial geezer. Hear his insights a real finking man.

I note that C4 on 4-Tel text describe it as a chat show, for comedy it ain't. It wants to be cool and controversial, but we've been there before with shows such as *Richard Littlejohn Live and Uncut* *Clarkson* both nothing more than a load of dribble. It surprises me that Al Murray pursues his landlord charchter when you can the see a real-life charicature every Friday night.

Incidentally he wants folks to send in a theme tune.

Hmmm...there's a challenge.......

So poor it almost made you root for Savile....

singalong Ricky:

Meet Ricky Gervais who's a pile of snot,
Talkback and C4 like him a lot,
He opens his mouth and out comes the crap,
why the hell do we endure this pap,
yes I know that this ditty is trite,
but just like the show it's a pile of shite.

(c)george


......Who'll do the muzak? I'm thinking of Joe Buxton on his portable synth keyboard...or some Fast Show Jazz Club pretentious modern-jazz mickey take......


(apologies for the vulgar language, but the show is really THAT bad).

There's going to be a lot more of this sort of thing on E4 (C4's new digital entertainment channel). Broadcast today mentioned a new show featuring sketches with "kids putting swearwords in their homework", proud producer Dan Mazer (11ocs producer, btw) announced.

This isn't a moral argument, it's one of substance. Just when you think TalkBack can't sink any lower, it pulls another embarrassing trail of toss out of a hat.

What do you think Chris Morris says to most of TalkBack's staff these days? I'll bet he keeps out of Percy Street for the most part.

I nearly wrote that this was the worst comedy programme I'd ever seen. But that would have excluded 11ocs. Just think - had it not been for 11ocs, MRG would never have seen the light of day....

I've only seen the trailers. Is he the one who did the John Peel impressions on 11OCS? I never saw them.

Shit! I should have asked Chris Morris what he thought of 11OCS! Should have made sure Bent Halo had the tape running as well...

>I've only seen the trailers. Is he the one who did the John Peel impressions on 11OCS? I never saw them.

Don't think it was him. No, he used to be on XFM a lot, was poor on that too.
>
>Shit! I should have asked Chris Morris what he thought of 11OCS! Should have made sure Bent Halo had the tape running as well...

What a brilliant scoop that would have been. What the hell would we have done if he'd given it the thumbs-up, though?

Doctored the tape, obviously.

"Comedy... it's a dirty business..."

Please kill me.

I mean, JESUS, reusing 11OCS jokes really is the lowest of the low. It was that crap line about nurses being "Fucking Pigs". (I think it was the same one that got slagged off in Time Out) Even less funny the second time around, but what made it worse was that I could see it coming and was already cringing in anticipation. On the strength of that alone I hope this show bombs like nothing else.

Wil's end of show theme tune last night, suceeding in calling Ricky 'one car' & 'two hat' was great, though!

>There's going to be a lot more of this sort of thing on E4

The scary thing is though, if they're moving what they think is the 'good stuff' onto their PPV channel, what in the name of God are we going to be lumbered with on C4?? It pains me to even think of it.
C4 is dying a slow and horrible death, and it hurts to watch. There used to be some great stuff on there, their late night stuff used to be worth staying up for, but now I'd rather sleep. It's not doing me any good going to sleep at 2am, I need decent programming, and now the Olympics is over for another 4 years it seems I've run out of things to stay up for.
The C4 hierarchy needs a serious reshuffle, otherwise C4's whole schedule is going to be full of utter shite made by Talkback, and Princess Productions (Oooh look, we can make loads of different shows using exactly the same set and identical production team that worked so well on Light Lunch, no-one will ever notice!) I'm very surprised that PP didn't use the LL set for 'Jailbreak', Craig Charles sat on brightly coloured chairs at a big wooden table.

Rant over. I've had a lot to get off my chest, I've missed this place!!

Ricky Gervais is a wonderful, talented genius, as is TV's Iain Lee - a great shame it is that the new 11ocs will be 'iainless'.

Disregard that.

Temporary insanity brought on by the joy of having a proper user account (cheers Rob!)

I watched it again on Friday with very faint hope. It still is really awful.

Of course you won't find any criticism in the C4 forum about this, or another C4 show as it gets deleted as fast as possible.....

That said I'm beginning to suspect that C4 keep broadcasting this drivel so that we will think...'Hmm, that 11oCS ain't so bad'.....
.....it's a nasty cheap ploy. Fight it.

What I really liked about the first episode was that Ricky Gerbil or whatever his name is asked Jimmy Savile on, thinking he'd be easy to take the piss out of. Yet its well known that Sir Jim removed all his own piss a long time ago, and after a long, dreary and potentially offensive monologue, Jimmy said 'You are watching the shortest series ever' (or something similar)which was the biggest laugh of the show (and probably the series). Tommy Walsh was shite though....

Also, did anyone notice how he (Ricky Gobshite) always got a round of applause after saying a 'joke' with the
word 'fucking' in it.



P.S. This is my first post to the new forum, and its great to be back.

I'll go now.

I've been in Wales the last five days (lovely time, thank you) and S4C is not showing Meet Ricky Gervais. Don't think so, anyway.

Did I say S4C was rubbish? Well, yes I did. But on this front, hats off.

S4C is the most shite channel ever, its just Channel 4, but they paste over all the programs that you might actually bare watching, and replace them with even worse welsh ones.. It's awful and I hate it, since it's the only one I can pick up, so I can't actually watch channel4. Oh and that Ricky Gervais program is on S4C, its just they start it's run 2 weeks later than channel 4. So not only are they broadcasting wall to wall cack, they take even longer to do it than channel 4.

But do they have English subtitles?

The Welsh language soap-opera "Pobol Y Cym" used to be shown nationally on BBC2 at about 4pm weekdays in the late 70s. The first time I encountered it (as a lad of 5), I think I asked my gran: "What's wrong with their mouths?" or something equally hilarious and endearing, that would get reprinted in The Sun nowadays.

Welsh is awful, I am Welsh, I can speak Welsh, went to a Welsh school, and live in Wales.. It's crap. There are NO Welsh programs worth watching, yes some of the popular ones like Pobl Y Cwm have subtitles, but it doesn't improve the script at all.
How amazing S4C are finally broadcasting the Ricky Gervais first episode with Jimmy Saville tonight, after the all new 11 o clock show, advertised as prented by Iain Lee and Sarah Alexander. What a whole hour of awful shit pissed drivel, a kind of double whammy of shite. Well done S4C..

Incidentally, I was watching the Paramount Comedy Channel the other day, and there's this really bad show called the Jim Tavare show, some bald bloke who stands next to an old style bass and tells the most awful jokes ever, and includes terrible, terrible sketches, mostly entirely based on a bad pun, or something equally badly written. But also Ricky Gervais has his own sketches on the show too, two re-occuring ones are one where he reads a bedtime story to his child and then over analyzes them in dark brooding macabre detail, thus destroying the child like innocence of the story and leaving the child with a stark dreadful tale of pain and death, with which the child will not be able to sleep, and from here the humour arises... erm.. And another where he plays some airport customs guy who opens peoples luggage and ask incredibly personal questions about the items he finds, not completely unlike tons of other programs have done before. I think everyone should watch the Jim Tavare show though, just to see how the hell Sky managed to get an audience that laugh hysterically at all the jokes, they must of been mad.

The thing about analyzing children's stories was of course done by Stewart lee years ago (it's in the Fist Of Fun book), as pointed out by The Corpses way back in their original 11OCS article (remember that, eh? Innocent times).

...I was wrong, as usual, then. Whenever I go back to my mum's in Wales, I pretty much get used to the fact that I'm down to three channels - she can't get Channel 4, and I don't count Channel 5 anyway. S4C is rubbish.

That Jim Tavare show was first broadcast on Channel 5. In peak-time.