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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Ricky Gervais infiltrates the one percenters by remaining a 99er
I love this guy. He’s Larry David without the neurosis. Anyway, that’s a great post. You should read the whole thing.
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He had a good dig on Jerry Seinfeld once: “And finally, the funniest man in the world, Jerry Seinfeld!… I know that because he told me.”
A dig on Jimmy Fallon, as Fallon is delivering a monologue, Gervais comes up to him: “You know, Jimmy, you’ve got to sell that joke… as if you were smart enough to write it.”
Another dig, as he’s drinking a beer at the Globes: “I love a drink as much as the next man… unless that man is Mel Gibson!"… And then Gibson walks on.... and to Mel’s credit, he played along by pretending to stumble like a drunk. He turned a great one-liner by Gervais into a great comedic experience.
I can’t think of anyone who can give zingers like that to the biggest celebrities around, and to their faces, and have everyone laugh, including the targets.
Great article. I write crime fiction in my spare time. I tried for years to be “successful” until I realized that success is always in the eye of the beholder. Now I write what I want, and release it for Kindle. It sells or it doesn’t. I have fun writing it, it’s well received by those who do read it, so I have another good time enjoying what they say and making enough money to buy a round of drinks at next year’s conference. Success. Now I’m an even bigger Ricky Gervais fan than I was before.