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I'll be watching without question, Ben Stiller is the guest tonight.
But I promise you, without doubt, it's going to get slammed both here and in reviews because of The Office.
I love The Office and I'll happily say so, but I've spoken to a couple of people and there's already a backlash towards it and, without having seen an episode, of Extras.
People seem to resent somebody being succesfull, plus they think it gives them some kind of non-existent "net cool" to be one of those "Yeah, I prefered their early stuff" kind of people.
I asked them how they can rubbish Extras before they've even seen a single episode?
"Oh I've seen Gervais interviewed and he's turned into such an ego monster, he thinks he's really funny and he's not"
Fair enough, each to their own but I'll be watching tonight.
It might be good, it might be bad. It won't be The Office and that's enough for me.
Some bits were a bit dull but who knows, they cold just be setting up the characters. Plus, it is obviously meant to be more serious.
I liked when Stiller pulled out the gun to the kid's mum. Bits seem like The Office because of the cringe worthy thing but I like that.
Still, at the start I was going " This isn't very good ".
I forgot to watch it.
"I'm only looking at her dead naked face"
"Sure, he could watch Dodgeball a second time and be laughing because he missed things the first time, it's layered like that so...y'know"
"Will you shut up about your @&*%ing dead wife"
Shall be watching the rest quite happily.
And caught a fairly amusing thing afterwards with a woman. Liked the surly Lahndan teen girl "Am I bovverd?"
That's pretty much the only properly funny bit of the show, though.
Some really funny bits though - the dead naked face, Herman Munster, bowel cancer, and Ben Stiller quoting his box office record. I'd like to see this one again at the end of the series, once I know the characters better, as I'm sure I'd pick up on more stuff (it's probably layered like that...)
I'll definitely watch again.
Didn't like that woman that was on afterwards though. Some of her stuff (well, about two sketches of the ten or so I saw before switching off) was funny, but I thought she was rubbish - her delivery etc.