VIDEO: Ricky Gervais Promotes Today’s Hollywood Disabilities Forum At UCLA

COMMENTS (25)

• enough of this guy!

  Comment by Anonymous — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 9:51am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Listen, anyonymous, you’ve been posting a lot lately and, really, enough of you. Ricky and Stephen rule – this spot was spot on. Yes, the guy has a schtick but he’s got range in his game. Ricky…i’d hire you on my next film in a heartbeat. in fact, I may just do that.

    Comment by Shayne — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 7:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Ricky Gervais is wonderfully funny. HOWEVER, Stephen Merchant provides a vehicle to make Ricky funnier. I absolutely love the two together; one being a kid on too much caffeine that squirms and acts up and then Stephen sitting there sweetly bringing Ricky back down to earth. They just work so well off of each other. Brilliant.
    Let Stephen work with Ricky on the Golden Globes together. And Ashley Jensen; don’t forget Ashley!
    Keep making us laugh…………please don’t ever stop.
    As in the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert/Jonathan Ross/Graham Norton, etc., style of joking, please don’t ever go away.

    Comment by Lydia — Monday November 9, 2009 @ 9:40am PST  Reply to this post

    • Oh, and Kathy Griffin…………..keep pissing off all of those bizarre people that seem to populate L.A.
      As Carrie Fisher was quoted: she’s a product of in-breeding: two Hollywood stars who marry and produce children.

      Go Kathy and Carrie!

      Comment by Lydia — Monday November 9, 2009 @ 9:48am PST  Reply to this post

• more of this guy!

  Comment by MenoRikey — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 10:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• These guys are always hilarious

  Comment by Hans — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 10:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• They’re actually showing that in public? It didn’t send me over the edge in rage or anything like that, but… WTF? Not exactly a glowing endorsement of the cause – or the disabled, for that matter.

  Comment by Gary A — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 11:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• Fantastic! Humor is healing!

  Comment by Anonymous — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 11:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• Enough of this guy, no, more of this guy, wait, these guys are hilarious!

  Comment by Um, Seriously — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 11:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• Not his best but still funny.

  I love his comment when he visited the USA for the first time about how he loved it here because in America he’s not considered fat.

  Comment by Michelle T — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 12:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Can’t get enough of Gervais/Merchant. I hope they ditch the attempts to be Hollywood feel-goody and just be themselves with this dynamic. They’ll never cross over to a big audience here, but that’s the point; they have their own style and there’s millions of us who love it. Don’t need a big box-office hit to prove anything.

  Comment by Dan-Scriptomatic-Cinematic-Telematic-3D — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 12:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is Stephen Merchant the real talent here? God that guy’s funny. And he makes Gervais way funnier (and more likable).

  Comment by blablabuhla — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 2:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love, Ricky & Stephen! Ricky, don’t do anything without him, you are funnier together!

  Comment by jennab — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 5:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He makes me so happy I could watch him all day.

  Comment by Anonynmous Not — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 7:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good British comedy: Ricky Gervais

  Bad British Comedy: Russell Brand

  Comment by N. O — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 8:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This video got lots of laughs from the crowd today. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are great!

  Comment by Katherine — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 9:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• These guys are hilarious! Love them! But I totally don’t get what they were doing – were they trying to get filmmakers/producers to portray disabilities in movies/TV or was it a parody of that sort of PSA?

  Comment by NYC Writer — Saturday October 24, 2009 @ 11:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• ‘The rain man ones’ haha!

  Comment by cookie — Sunday October 25, 2009 @ 3:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Disability.. Well done!

  Comment by Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Sunday October 25, 2009 @ 5:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• “I’ve never used the ones that were really too clever, the Rain Man ones.”

  Awesome

  Comment by JDog — Sunday October 25, 2009 @ 11:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• Went to this event yesterday and it was just incredible. Sadly the DGA was a no show as was the LA Times. Thanks for staying up on it Nikki. You are a real champ.

  Comment by Tami — Sunday October 25, 2009 @ 2:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love these two ricky’s so adorable. I can’t believe people actually think this is real! It’s obvious by now this is how they do their little interview things Lol. It’s hilarious, they do Britain proud (:

  Comment by Jane — Sunday October 25, 2009 @ 3:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Please go away…you are not funny

  Comment by Robbie Goldstein — Monday October 26, 2009 @ 8:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t think Nikki posted this for a critique of the Gervais/Merchant comedic skills, it was instead intended to raise awareness of a powerful movement in Hollywood: I AM PWD campaign. The disabled community has been partnering with the major talent unions to publicize the fact that actors with disability are profoundly under-represented in Film/TV. This movement culminated in a powerful and impressive forum this weekend with notables such as Peter Farrelly, David Milch and “Chill” Mitchell. Gervais is one of the few in the business that is unafraid to portray disabilities as a part of the human existence for both comedy and truth.

  Comment by mark povinelli — Monday October 26, 2009 @ 12:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• just one of the benefits that disabled actors have over their able-bodied counterparts is that they’re cheaper.

  Comment by rich thompson — Tuesday January 12, 2010 @ 2:32pm PST  Reply to this post