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Caloroga Shark Media. Merry Christmas, thank you for choosing to spend a few minutes with me and your years. Today there is comedy news and Hi, I’m Johnny Mac Griggy Gervais. Armageddon new special out on Netflix today. I you’ve got a clip for you.
I have trimmed this a little bit because he says some naughty words and we don’t do that on this podcast. But here’s Ricky. It’s very sad, but we all die. We all know we’re going to die, and we all do die, so it doesn’t really matter if we die one at a time along the way or all at once in one big fine lamageddon. The result is we’re all going to be dead one day, and we’re all going to be dead forever.
And I’ve been to a lot of funerals in my time. You live this long, you know a lot of people, they die, and I don’t mind funerals because it’s the end. I mean, I hate weddings so much, hope you know what I mean.
And then needy and arrogant, Oh do you want to come up watch us for twelve ho…
No?
And then you go, oh right, yeah, when is it?
And they go two years time. They know you haven’t got an excuse for two years time, so they just have to hope that one of them dies. Ricky had previously said in a statement, for the next two thousand years, people will remember. The twenty fifth day of December is the day Armygedon was released on Netflix. There has been some controversy about this show a joke about terminally illed children.
I talked about that as the first story in Thursday’s podcast if you want to go back when social media user said we can all take a good joke, but this is below the belt for Ricky and that one part of making jokes about ill children is funny vile. Another user said this is the most vile attempted comedy I’ve ever seen. Sick and dying children wish for a video for him and he mocks them like this. Shame one you, Ricky Gervais. This is quite the Christmas episode so far, isn’t it.
As I recapped on Thursday, I’ll do it again quickly here, Ricky told BBC Radio five Live. People don’t analyze the joke. They feel something. That’s what the offense is. It’s feeling.
That’s why I’m offended. It’s quite meaningless. What do you want me to change? Some people were circulating a petition to have Netflix at at the special, and Ricky responded, good luck. I’ll even retweet it.
From Rolling Stone UK, The Office UK’s Christmas specials turned twenty this month, Ricky said, I’m still very proud of it. Despite experiencing fame. Before the Office, Ricky had a short lived pop career and two Channel four TV shows. It was David Brent who helped him break through. Ricky said, The Office is where all those big opportunities really started for me.
It was the thing I tried my hardest at and I got an a growing up. As comedy fans, writes Rolling Stone, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were well aware of the power Christmas specials held on viewers and saw them as something to aspire to when developing their own sitcoms. I guess that’s why Ricky released a special today good Call, because you know, after the morning, it’s kind of like, what are we going to do? Watch football?
And then you need something to watch.
I’m looking forward to watching this one so I can finally include my top comedy specials of twenty twenty. Three or not included, and maybe it’s not good. I think it’s going to be good. Steven Merchant said, Christmas TV was a big part of my childhood, sitting down as a family and watching a Christmas edition if something felt like in a k That’s why we did Christmas specials for extras in the Office because they felt significant. So the fact that this features on lists of favorite Christmas TV is very pleasing.
Ricky likes that The Office is twelve episodes and done. He said we didn’t want to do a third season because we always thought Faulty two hours was the paradigm. Well, somebody better tell John Clees he’s bringing it back, Merchant said, without the specialis a bonus. Merchant added, we were worried would run out of steam. I mean, how many embarrassing faux pas can we have David Brent make And how long is this simmering romance between Tim and Dawn gonna go on?
I don’t know. Apparently you could have done four seasons and then had them get married and then brought in Ed Helms and had the show go downhill in quality could have done that. Merchants said there was anxiety around quality control dipping and it not being as good. Yeah, I think I could show them a model for that. Originally conceived as one long episode, but later split in two by the BBC, The Office Christmas specials aired on December twenty sixth and twenty seventh, two thousand and three.
Catching up with David, Tim, Dawn, Gareth and the rest of the Warnham Hog Office. A year after we last saw them, battling redundancy and swiftly fizzling fame, we find and David Brent at his lowest eb while Tim is still recovering from his awkward attempt at winning Dawn’s heart in series two’s Bittersweet finale, where Down went to Florida, where her boyfriend Lee Ricky said, we thought the hook could be to the first two seasons had gone out and the characters were now aware of it secretly. It was always about fame in comedy. David Brent thought he was a comedian. It’s all about ego, being loved and please please make me famous.
It was nice to show that things didn’t always turn out well and he had the wrong sort of fame. Merchant says. By two thousand and three, the reality TV format had become quite set. By that point, you’d have shows a bit of downtime, and then they’d revisit the old Ganga sey what they were up to. It seemed like a natural way of doing it.
In that downtime, David Brent had been busy. He spent his nights making guest appearances at dive bars. It’s a nomadic existed, spent either alone in his car, in cheap hotels or haunting backstage. Harry as showing us David Brent at his bleakest but also his most sympathetic. Ricky said, I wanted people to feel it.
It was a fake documentary, but had to be real. When people are crazy comedy characters, you don’t care about them when something goes wrong, whereas if you’ve earned it, it resonates because you suddenly feel responsible. Someone can be an idiot in the office, but they might go home and cry for all we know. So I wanted that discomfort. I want us to feel a bit guilty about what we do to normal people because they want to be famous.
Merchants said, I think perhaps we took it too far. I was in a pub playing pool in the night. The second episode aired and some guys next to me said, did you see The Office last night? And his friend said, yeah, it was all right, but that ending was a bit depressing. I wanted to lean over and go it was a two porter.
Go home and watch the second one, because there’s a happy ending. From The Independent, Ricky Gervais was not impressed by Jamie Oliver’s Christmas turkey hack, which Oliver showed on a recent episode of The Graham Norton Show. The short clip shown on Norton shows Jamie Oliver securing a bay leaf to a clement sign, using a clove to stab the fruit. Jamie Oliver then microwaves at the clement sign until piping hot before placing it inside his raw turvity’s cavity. Jervase jumped in and said, sorry, how is that a recipe?
Stick an orange up a turkey’s butt? How’s that a recipe? We all know that Diehard is a Christmas movie, but Gabriel Iglesias has a point. Gremlins is a Christmas movie. He says, there are Christmas trees, there’s snow, and you know the Gremlins destroying Santa clauses.
All right, I’m not sure how comedy related this one is, but it made me laugh when I was prepping for today. Apparently, in Ireland there’s addition called the Twelve Pubs of Christmas. Love it. Irish Central rites on Christmas Morning all over Ireland they’ll be countless people thanking they’re lucky stars. Not because they’re looking forward to opening presents.
It’s because they know that once Christmas arrives they no longer have to suffer the wrath of the Twelve Pubs of Christmas hangover. Santa Con may be happening in the US now, but as usually, the Irish come out on top in terms of how to properly have the crack. This Christmas time brought up crack recently cr aic. No, we’re not doing rock cocaine. Crack means fun, all right.
How does this work? Over the course of an evening, you, along with your sisters and brothers in indulgence, visit twelve bars an attempt to have a drink in every one of them. Okay, that’s pretty straightforward. You wear Christmas jumpers or sweaters or Santa hats. Okay, we know how to do that.
But Iris Central points out anyone who thinks the hardest thing about the night is to drink twelve points. Should think again because there are rules vary from group of friends, but here are some of the rules that you might follow. No drinking with your right hand in the first pub. No pointing at people in the second pub. No talking to anyone you know in the third pub.
No sitting, resting, or leaning in the fourth pub. I’d fail there, And no using the restroom in the fifth pub. I’m definitely out, and so on and so on. There’s usually a maximum limit of thirty minutes per pub and a designated rule keeper with a whistle to keep the guy on track. What if you break a rule?
Will you face a penalty? You might have to gulp down a large amount of your drink ire centil rites and nearly every twelve pubs this author has ever tended is usually added with a happy consensus to stay put around bar number six or seven, with fellow twelve pubgoers only too happy to enjoy the crack and merriment in the bar. Then braave the cold, rainy December warmth in search of another from Harper’s bizarre fifty Christmas Movies That’ll make you less miserable this season. I’m not going to read all fifty. Let’s skim down this and see what I find.
The Santa Claus Okay, that’s number one. Jingle all the way, Get Santa Home alone. Two, The Grinchtoole Christmas, Ernest saves Christmas forgot that happened. I’m just waiting to see if there’s an Adam Sandlor movie on here. There’s gotta be right el pH at number seventeen, Scrooged at nineteen, Christmas Vacation at twenty trading places.
How’s that a Christmas movie? You can tell me on Facebook. I don’t care. No Sanilor on there. Isn’t that surprising.
There should be some sailor on there. I’m gonna ask chatchpt to write the plot of an Adam Sandler Christmas movie. Okay, it has called it The Christmas Chaos Crusaders. Chat Ept’s plot. Adam Sandler stars as Dave.
I’m reading this. It just printed a lovable but perpetually unlucky guy who has a deep passion for Christmas but always seems to find himself in holiday related disasters. Dave lives in a small, tight knit neighborhood. It takes Christmas decorations and festivities very seriously. One year, Dave’s neighbor, mister Johnson, declares that he will win the annual neighborhood Christmas decorating contest at all costs.
This is the Eddie Murphy plot. Chat EPT. That’s what I’ve been saying, that Eddie Murphy Christmas movie that just came out, that that should have been an Adam Sailor movie. The Internet agrees with me. I’m not even reading the rest of this.
The Christmas Chaos Grusaders come on chat GPT. Not only is that a bad Adam Saylor movie, it’s not even original. That’s your company needs for today. Merry Christmas, see you tomorrow.