Desert Island Discs - Ricky Gervais 1/3

In just 12 episodes his show The Office changed the face of British television comedy. At its centre was the comic monster, David Brent, a middle-manager being filmed for a mock-documentary who saw the ever present cameras as his route to popularity and fame.

Ricky Gervais's performance was both excruciating and unmissable - one critic called the programme "among the most affecting and invigorating works of fiction since the turn of the century".

As he discusses with Kirsty Young, comedy was the language he grew up with - the youngest of four children, being able to come up with a gag or a smart rejoinder was the linguistic currency of his home.

That, he says, is where the 'show-off performer' was born. Now with seven Baftas, two Golden Globes and an Emmy to his name, Ricky Gervais is gratified that his work is recognised and says his aim has always been to bring art into comedy.

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[Sshelly34213]

What's that instrumental song in the beginning?

[phatlip2]

Sleepy Lagoon

[chawk111]

I think YouTube should institute national colour-codding (red for British, blue for American...) on comments so that people can apply their hate-filled stereotypes more efficiently.

[ScarranHalfBreed]

I would like to have sex with Kirsty Young. At some point.

[ChainsawvsDMT]

Nobody invents a cure for cancer - so the person is getting payed to fuck around.

The person who appears in hollyoaks brings a smile to the cancer patient and makes his last days a little bit better.

[bensimps123]

ricky said they had to have a job he never did till he was late 20s

[phatlip2]

@anthonydc50 Unfortunately the tracks weren't included, this is how it came.

[anthonydc50]

@SubjectToConditions I agree, if you upload these you should leave the tracks in. However, thanks just for uploading them.

[neonatalpenguin]

@ScarranHalfBreed But you're not in a hurry?

[CROMERCRABO1]

red for neck

[bahramf]

RADIO HOLE

[SubjectToConditions]

I dont get it, Ricky Gervais' desert island discs without the desert island discs?

[neonatalpenguin]

@chawk111 Surely it would be the other way around. Blue for royalty, red for hamburgers.