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  • BRING BACK DEAD RINGERS

  • Merchant's voice is spot on, I think, but Gervais is disappointing. I probably wouldn't have even guessed whom he was playing had I not known. Voice needs to be higher and more squawky, and Gervais has so many mannerisms to send up, but Culshaw misses the opportunity.

  • i actually think he does a good ricky gervais/david brent..

  • I wouldnt mind but his Gervais isnt even that good.....

  • Let's be honest here. Culshaw is a great impressionist, but the rest are all crap and the scriptwriting really could be a hell of a lot better.

  • The impressions are more of David Brent and Darren Lamb than Gervais and Merchant. Fail.

  • This is fucking shit. Shit comedians pretending to be great comedians

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  • What shite hes playing ricky gervais acting like david brent it doesnt make any sense.what a twat

  • No way on earth that this guy could be Gervais.... This guy is funny!!

  • this is shit

  • Dead Ringers and the other show John Culshaw does with Debra Stevenson are very poor indeed. I'm not sure why though. I just really dont find them funny at all. Is it just me??? 

  • This mayby isn't funny but this guy look's like ricki

  • this isn't very funny, but i have come to realise gervais is a bit of a twat

  • thats not even funny at all its funny how pathetic it is though have to put a laugh track on it thats how you know its a load of bolics should be banned for wasting my time

  • If you take on Gervais and Merchant you're bound to lose. (And Pilky).

  • Dead Ringers was always shit. this guy was always a poor man's rory bremner(who's irritating anyway). the case with these people is they could do SOME impressions, but cant write for shit.

    thats why impressions are the lowest kind of dumbshit comedy....if they grew some balls and tried to make something themselves, people would realise how talentless and boring they really are.........(jesus. -rant much??)

  • Didn't laugh once....

  • THIS IS TERRIBLE!!!!

  • WTF was that about?

  • @specialfx34 I do too and I'm an American.

  • the only thing that is good is the end about the silence. The Office did that a lot

  • none of them sound anything like the people theyre supposed to be

    least of all melvyn bragg!

  • Please.. *sits down and waits* Go ahead and do a better impression... Would LOVE to see it. At the end of the day you're just some moron posting a comment.  He's on tv and rich, so umm yeh...

  • @RisingDampChamp i am a moron, yes. but anyone who likes the sitcom rising damp is very likely to be more of a moron than me.

  • @morrossey It took you a month to come up with that response....? Yes... I'm a moron when i'm dealing with people as slow as you. Would hate to email you would take you 5 months to learn how to read it.

    Prick.

  • @RisingDampChamp hmmm...or maybe it's just that I dont spend all my life on youtube.

    loser.

  • @RisingDampChamp Ok, I'm going to weigh in here if only to point out what a moronic comment that is, 'Do better or your point is effectively invalid'?! Jesus, what sort of idiot really thinks that? Can you build a plane? You best be able to, because if yours crashes you won't be able to complain when you can't do better! And screw those tossers in Chernobyl, I bet half of them couldn't even build a reactor! When we get to the point where only stuff you can do yourself is vaild, we're all screwed

  • @RisingDampChamp Also, what kind of evidence is the fact he's on TV towards being funny? I ask because some of us don't live in cukoo land, where only those who really deserve to be on TV are, occasionaly, and this might well be a shocker, people with little talent do well for no good reason. Whilst it would be unbecoming to pander to the popular jokes, I can't help but feeling ariel bombing your land of fatuous points with such examples as Bieber and the X factor would do us all a land of good.

  • ugh, still shit then.

  • Its a decent impression of Gervais.

  • oh dear. rubbish impressions of both ricky and steve.

  • I LOVE DAVID BRENT, is this what all other british comedy is like??

  • @sinceilostmytooth I dunno, but in a "basic" kind of way, the impression of merchant was quite good, although I don't like basic slapstick comedy - but then again, just this time, the fact of Steve Merchant being so tall and being "out of sight" got me funnybone, although...oh, y'all get the point.

  • Voice - horrible

    Body-language - Spot on!

  • his impersonation was alright. it's just the script there is nothing funny about

  • Hahahaha!! (thats laughing at how bad this is, not how good)

  • lol all this fails just as badly as james cordens impression of DAVID BRENT

  • That was rubbish with a capital CRAP. Not only did John Culshaw get Ricky Gervais's voice TOTALLY wrong, even if this is an impersonation of the David Brent character, it's still shit and sounds nothing like him. Also, the impression of the Queen is crap too - sounded nothing like her. This is just a pile of festering ploppings. I agree with jigalojim - without pioneering comedy from Steven Merchant and Ricky Gervais, TV would be full of crap like this. I spit (and poo) on this video.

  • His impression is of David Brent and not of Ricky Gervais. :-/

  • Without Ricky and Steve we would still be watching crap like this. God bless them.

  • @jigalojim Very true, very very true!

  • this is wank

  • brilliant

  • I clicked on this on the assumption it was the real Ricky Gervais.

  • That IS how Ricky talks :L

  • Tim Oliver is much better!

  • look, i do quite like ricky gervais, but anyone who thinks he is a god among men and the greatest comedian ever is quite wrong. He's not above being impersonated any more than anyone else

  • well that was proper crap.

  • hows it hanging... your maj'

  • john culshaw just sounds like john culshaw...

  • christ. I'm not going to get started on how they look in this, but I'm listening to their xfm stuff right now and I have to say, they sound nothing like this. I get that DR are playing off how the public perceives Gervais, but even when they made this in 2008, The Office was 7 years old, as was the David Brent character. Sort of pointless, since it's obvious to anyone with a brain that Gervais isn't Brent.

  • @TheRandyChimp david brent is real. he was in extras.

  • @baliG83 Yes, David Brents real, so's Homer Simpson, Dr Who and Chandler from Friends.

    SIGH!

  • @TheRandyChimp no know that homer simpson is a cartoon and doctor who is not real but i saw on tv that chandler got a job as a dentist after friends finished.

  • @TheRandyChimp lol u thought homer is real u dummie!!

  • @baliG83 HAW HAW HAW. DOY!

  • @TheRandyChimp whats funny?

  • @baliG83 I assumed you were being ironic, maybe sarcastic. Please, tell me you aren't really this stupid.

  • @TheRandyChimp no shit sherlock.

    you really are quite gullible.

    lol @ ur dumbass.

  • @baliG83 How am I a dumbass? I already told you I assumed you were being ironic or sarcastic and I was right. That means I'm the complete opposite of a dumbass. I was just, how can I put this, "Out-ironicing" you.

  • That's either canned laughter or the entire audience is on some kind of weed and giggling uncontrollably.

  • About as funny as cock rot.

  • @BarryDong

    So quite funny then?

  • Rubbish - not funny at all!

  • LMFAO!!!!

    @ STEPHEN!!!

    HAHAHAHH!

    I genuinely thought that was funny.

  • yeah this was kinda weak, but the pseudo-Ricky nailed that lil smile! hee!

  • Really? I didn't think it was so bad. I laughed.

  • what the hell is this?? why would anyone upload this shit on youtube???

  • I've seen a lot of comic impressions of Ricky Gervais and more often than not they make the impersonator look stupid. I'm really fed up with this embarrassing BBC comedy having a go at Gervais with such awful attempts at humour.

  • a bit weak, actually. The Queen was not very good.

  • John Culshaw is amazing, he has the uncanny ability to sound exactly like these people he impersonates doing an impression of John Culshaw.

  • Why do fucking arseholes like these people who are fucking shit actors always have to spoil a fucking good show i dont understand.......FUCK OFF U WANKERS!!

  • It's a good impression of David Brent. But not really Ricky :-)

  • why do these impressionist shows always have to do the Queen? I mean, at least Ricky moved on from the dance...

  • I'm pretty sure she's the queen of Britain, not England.

  • @ChainsawVsGod Queen of England is also fine because she is the Queen of England, or as I like to call her, Englands best tourist trap.

  • @ChainsawVsGod

    That's the Queen of the United Kingdom

  • Everybody deserves to be lampooned - that's what makes comedy a great medium. For example, have you heard my one about how people who waste time posting to youtube forums are cohorts of Osama Bin Laden. All those years in a cave? Idle hands do the devils work - get a life

  • It's amazing how all of John Culshaw's impressions sound exactly like John Culshaw.

  • @Stopthebadman LMAO!! so true :')

  • Last I checked she was the queen of Britain, not England.

  • @ChainsawVsGod Yeh, she is the queen of Britain, but typically, she is still called "The Queen of England"

  • Quenn of England?!?

  • @manicmacintosh

    I'm pretty sure she's the queen of Britain huh?

  • Parody is fine, but its edge is blinted when you lampoon those more talented than yourself. These guys aren't without talent, but they haven't made an Office or Extras and likely never will. Like that fuckwit who did a David Mitchell impression.

  • whatever.... ricky and stephen are geniuses. this was biggest shit ever.

  • Possibly the poorest impression I have ever seen. He is playing Ricky as David Brent, and that to me is pathetic. This is "comedy" for the, and im not sure of the politically correct term here but, retarded.

    Play a record.

  • ricky gervais is funny as fuck this is a disgrace to him

  • Hmmm, explaining the jokes of another show isn't funny, nor does it detract from the jokes of that show.

    "Ooh, he puts a lot of silence at the end of shows. Let's mention it 'cos we noticed it. Ooh, how did o-one else see how easy it is? Aren't we clever? khbgdkjbgkgkjbdfbj"

  • How come every impressionist does an impression of David Brent and thinks it's a Ricky Gervais impression?

  • mmmm, it's not a very good impression of either stephen merchant or ricky gervais, poor show, dead ringers, poor show.

  • why take the piss out of a character?

  • Yawn...

  • I'm not English, but I feel the urge to scream BULLOCKS!

  • @Chunderstew ... and you would be promptly shouted down by someone saying "it's bOllocks you fucking useless retard bollock". Now while i do agree they may have been a tad harsh in correcting you, i still feel they made their point.

  • ricky gervais impersonations never work because he's always putting on an act, a funny act. This was just a few david brent mannerisms so it was just shit.

  • Why does everybody keep saying this is a David Brent impression?? Its NOT. Its a Ricky Gervais immpression. If it was a DB impression then Culshaw would be dressed as Brent ( beard white shirt and dark tie aka The Office ) Hes not dressed as Brent. Hes dressed as GERVAIS. And its a pretty good impression too.

  • @wanderer1955 because gervis doesnt act like this but brent does

  • @809Ollie Wrong!!

  • @wanderer1955 not wrong while he may use some of the brent mannerisms from time to time while in an comedy character, i can saftly say after listening to nearly all of his radio show from before and after the office he doesnt use any of these mannerisms in real life at all.

  • That's not a portrayal Ricky Gervais, that's a portrayal of David Brent. A poor one i might add.

  • @dofty riky gervais is just like david brent not funny at all jon culshaw on the other hand legnedary

  • @meamfreakystyley Ricky is not like David Brent. Ricky puts up an act in commercials, promos and the likes. Listen to the old XFM shows or the Podcast to witness his real personality. You might not like his humour, but I think it's absolutely brilliant. Let's leave it at that..

  • its cringeworthy - you cant mock comedy legends

  • dont mind people taking the piss out of Gervais as he is pretty fucking good at doing it to other people haha. but this was just a fail.

    Gervais=GOD

  • Sounded like Frank Spencer playing Ricky Gervais on smack.

  • the queen talking about doing a hitler impression was funny. i mean imagine that!!

  • this is a david brent impression not ricky gervais!

  • fairly good gestures and timing of facial expressions. Good timing on the voice bu the tone was all wrong and the accent pretty dodgy too.

  • so shit

  • sounds absoluely nothing like gervais at all

  • lol that was shit

  • he sounds like bowie not ricky

  • Wow. Like ALL Americans? That's a bit harsh, isn't it?

  • Thought the Gervais impression was good.

  • Culshaw is terrible at impressions. Quite weird considering that's his fucking job! Off my telly please.

  • Jesus that's bad. Doesn't even sound like Brent, never mind Gervais.

  • load a shite.

  • Just really bad

  • Wank wank wank.

    The Dead Ringers lot are all one-trick ponies.

    Bollocks.

  • His head is too small to be Ricky Gervais

  • yep , that was terrible . It failed in every way. poor sad bastards.

  • This is shit

  • so crap. Its not even Ricky Gervais its David Brent.

  • its a good david brent impression, but as i said before and as u said, its not ricky gervais x

  • You're a genius

  • Dead Ringers didn't make a beautiful transition to television did it? Where's the prank calls?! While Jon Culshaw is a great impressionist- he's too crap an actor, and looks too characteristic to ever pull off these 'impressions'.

  • Chill out, take a joke

  • thats just david brent

  • Holy crap, this was great. I'm sure Gervais would laugh if he saw it.

  • it annoys me when they say they are doing an impression of Ricky and instead do an impression of 'David Brent' grrrr!

  • @ellabridgie totally agree. It irritates me so much. The other thing is, Ricky is a comedy genius that these idiots can't even get close to talent wise.

  • Such a lame joke!!

  • no it isn't

  • WTF are people upset about? It was funny.

  • @cutes22

    AGREED

  • I feel sick. He doesn't sound anything like Ricky Gervaais and even if he did the writing is sh*t. Leave this stuff where it belongs, at the end of the f**king peir

  • Impersonations aren't funny. Daae Ringers is shit. I love it when they attack other comedy shows just because they're far more original and funny than their own shit.

  • LOL! Pretty good, "yeah?" Both Ricky & Steve.

  • possibly the worst impression of anyone ive ever seen

  • i love Ricky but that was a good impression. The one of Steve Merchant was spot on.

  • That's a great Ricky Gervais impression, a lot of his little nuances there.

  • no cmon its actually a really good impression lol

  • The Queen looks like Mrs Doubtfire

  • I don't think that looked anything like Mrs Doubtfire

  • the fake laughter & acting are not supposed to be taken seriously. They're making fun of tv, that being said it did suck

  • your literally all nerds

  • not very funny... having that "REAL" Rick is one of the funniest guys alive...

  • Dead Ringers is a bit tosh.

  • Quite a negative response from Ricky fans...

  • failed

  • it's not bad... but this seems to be parodying The Office / David Brent, rather than the style of Extras. Dead Ringers = mediocre.

  • f@#king idiots, its a spoof, gervais probably laughed his arse off watching that.... hes been doing it for years only fair for him to cop some back.... hes my favorite comedian in the world but this doesnt taste off to me... if ur such gervais fans, wheres ur sense of humour?

  • Are these guys serious??

    Having the nerve to poke fun at Ricky having a bad show? Were does this show get off ?the office was genius this is reproduced caned laughter.....

  • FAIL

  • I hate it when I'm mislead by the title to a crap video.

  • whats the problem with ADS ... buy a little car thats really big a nd different from the rest but just a car really and you will instantly have a tasty bird and spend all day outside a cafe in italy to get there you will need satnav etc fuck that!

  • nice try though...

  • His impersonating david brent?? But he's wearing the same clothing as ricky would, he looks a bit of a dickhed doing this =/ as he obviously doesn't understand what ricky gervais is actually all about.

    shame too i like him at a point

    (you can't rate an oppinion BY THE WAY)

  • stop it ricky you scamp!

  • Shit...he's doing a David Brent impression (a bad David Brent impression), not a Ricky Gervais one.

  • ADs will kill YOUTUBE.

    stop the ads NOW.

    rate this comment.

  • This is pure shit.

    Waste of time.

    Not funny.

    1/5.

  • Ricky has a mandate- we buy his products and watch his programs.

    Why should we respect a women we never even had the option of voting for?

    Gervais is respected and admired for his character and achievments, not his hereditry.

  • Why should you respect a woman who has been at the forefront of politics in your country for the last 57 years? a woman who helped the troops during WWII? a woman who has been forced to watch the once great British Empire collapse and dissolve into nothing? good point. I admire Ricky Gervais but I don't think he is quite up to the level of HRH Queen Elizabeth II. Whether you had the opportunity to vote upon her as leader or not I still think you should have pride in your country at least.

  • Getbently- in reverse order. 1) Pride in my country and respect for its unelected despot are not the same thing. 2) Again, I have more admiration for Gervais than the Windsor lady, but this I suppose is subjective. 3) Good riddance to the British Empire. Of the people of the world, its existence or lack thereof has greater impact on the lives of, say, Indians, than it does your Queen. Cry me a river. 4) No one else who was helpful in the war demands my abjection. 5) 'Forefront of politics'- lol'

  • So when you hear "God Save The Queen" do you just look at your feet and mumble incoherently? PS She is not my Queen, I am from New Zealand, we take pride in our country and history, from King George III to HM Queen Elizabeth II we have and always will respect our mother country, I feel sorry for you that you can not feel the same way about your country and Head Of State.

  • Again, the 'queen' and England are not the same thing, and I can have pride in one and contempt for the other quite easily. I agree with you than monarchy's place is as part of our history, and not our present nor future.

    I can't remember the last time I heard the song you refer to, but 'The' is the only word with any significance for me. I don't believe in the god invoked to justify the divine rule of heredity, nor do I think one can be 'saved' in the way it implies.

    Am I mumbling?

  • One last question, do you really think that Ricky Gervais has had more of an impact on the world, than the Queen?

  • I don't believe I ever said that, my friend.

    But I'm now considering it for the first time, and I can't think of any impact the queen has had on anything.

  • I don't believe that I said that you ever said that, and if you really cannot think of anything that the Queen has had an impact on then you must have been living in a prison in China for the last 57 years.

  • Haha

    Im sorry, I'm drawing a blank. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

  • Last month she gave the New Zealand Government the power to grant Knighthoods, I know that doesn't sound like much but it proves that she is still politically active.

  • BTW Patriotism is not a Buffet, you cannot have pride in your Country but shun its leader, that right is reserved for peoples of third world countries such as Zimbabwe.