retired_therob

Only now?

retired_carribear68

sick of it

retired_michael75

cake.

retired_therob

Fair enough, although I don't quite know one can do this without tagging an "imo" onto the end of every sentence imo.

Fwiw I don't think it's scripted. It's just that he plays up to the stupid persona. Some of the bits in the Comedy Lab programme were terrible, with him coming up with achingly self-conscious 'zany' ideas to get a laugh. And once you start to think of him as someone reasonably intelligent who acts like a clown for a comedy programme, it suddenly gets a whole lot less funny.

retired_carribear68

nob juice

retired_carribear68

pretty poor reflection on the people that think nothing Karl said in this show was funny at all, and that the only way he can be considered comedy is if there are guys there to laugh in response to his comments (i.e. on the radio shows)

you shouldnt need someone to tell you when and where to laugh, the whole point is that Karl's musings are amusing in themselves (and they are). whether Gervais is there to point that out more overtly is pretty much a side-issue imo (even if the contagious laughter does add to the effect at times)