Richard Bacon, Ricky Gervais, Jon Culshaw, Peter Fincham - BBC 5 Live 07.03.11 Part 4 of 9

[eddyk3]

Remember this year when that derranged woman went on X-Factor and was basically bullied on stage and in front of the nation. Better singers don't even make the cut to go to the auditions... because they want to get the laughs.

[Js5s141]

I love how all these 'stars' ring Gervais. It still seems weird that our down to earth Ricky is mates with all these people.

[1978deus]

@Js5s141 On the contrary, that's probably why they like him.

[magicbibledotcom]

That ITV guy is full of shit, the X-Factor most certainly do exploit people. My uncle went for an audition and said he could see the producers pulling OBVIOUSLY dippy people out of the lines. I mean, do they think it's a coincidence you have so many terrible deluded people in the early rounds. Gervais summed it up perfectly in the Extras finale speech. They wheel out the bewildered to be sniggered at by multi-millionaires. He bowed a bit here by saying 'not so much' that though, when.. YES. That