It probably does bother him, considering Gervais loves (or used to love) Stewart Lee.
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It probably does bother him, considering Gervais loves (or used to love) Stewart Lee.
What's wrong with Lee? He's absolutely brilliant
No chance it wasn’t someone on here who put that post on the Reddit 
How bizarre.
How bizarre.Good luck with performing!
One to skip for sure. I can't imagine this will be anything other than a ball-washing session.
I think it's much more likely that he doesn't need to.
Been on a nice little bunsen burner for decades now
Lots of them are just attention whores. That's why he did the overlap.
The Gervais sub is an XFM radio sub that respects Smerch, loves Pilky and dislikes Gervais. It's mostly just 20 year old quotes.
it was a waste of an episode. Surely they could have found someone related to football. What made it worse was they didn't even cover any football at all considering there was lot going on last week.
A pretty big portion of the subreddit are fans of his old stuff, so they're liable to agree with the fact that he's a lazy unoriginal hack now.
Or, I guess they're jealous.
I think he's pretty liberal for the most part. He's just got old and grumpy.
Got my hopes up when he started mentioning Karl and Steve would love to know what’s going on with those 3
That's how we brushed off brexit at the time...
Turns out people get richer, then older, then hate everyone around them whilst thinking they know everything and what's best for everyone. Gervais is that in a nutshell, if only he was funny enough to see the irony there.
It was a horrible interview purely for the talking over each other, constant interrupting, just really basic stuff, a terrible watch.
Was very weird how he didn't mention them much particularly Steven - have they fallen out big time? Kind of sounded like it.
Subreddits like that are so pointless. Every comment is just some form of reference and they all just repeat the same stuff over and over. I could never imagine checking the subreddit for Ricky Gervais on a daily basis. Weird world.
So you were fine when we sold Jaap Stam?
Yea I don't get it either, I know they've had non-football athletes on the show before but at least you can contrast and compare their careers with the footballers on the show so it's somewhat tied in to the shows overall concept. This just felt so random, like they only invited Ricky because they wanted to hang out with him for a while. I thought that maybe he was a huge football fan and they'd discuss his team and various things around the PL but instead we got a football podcast where some footballing legends asks a comedian about his writing process and tour schedule.
Complete waste.
It was quite obvious how it happened. They were at his show the night before and decided on the spot to see if he would be a guest the following day.
The only non football guests I can remember are Rory McIlroy (golfer and big football fan) and that NFL player (who was investing in English football). RG was weird and I hope they aren't going to do too many celebrity guests like that. Get Keir Starmer on, or Elton John, Stormzy, Astrid Wett
He and Dawkins get on well.
Haha I'm famous!
I'm heading to the big time!
Most seem to agree with me, although a few have called me a cretin which is annoying because they don't even know me. I am a cretin but they don't know that.
It's funny they think I'm Irish because of the "fecking" autocorrect
Spoke too soon, the rest of the comments are calling @Djemba-Djemba all sorts of names
I crashed and burned very quickly
He fell out with Karl a long time ago, it was around the time they were making Derek together and Karl left half way through.
Karl was unhappy with how little money he got out of an Idiot abroad considering he was the star of the show. That was why he went off on his own to make the moaning of life.
And what about Merchant?
Ronnie O’Sullivan went on and was maybe my favourite one to date
I forgot him.
Yeah it's fine getting non footballers but they should be adjacent sports like snooker, golf, tennis, NFL etc. it's nice to compare how the two sports work etc.
Gervais was just random.
I’m sorry, but this guy is an arrogant twat too. So very annoying.
Jesus you are full of poor takes. Acaster is great.
Yeah, he's not funny at all
First time meeting plant?
I guess maybe some don’t realise he’s playing an arrogant twat in that bit. In reality he’s awkward as feck
First time meeting plant?
I guess maybe some don’t realise he’s playing an arrogant twat in that bit. In reality he’s awkward as feck
I don't think Plant is playing.
They're having James Corden on in the New Year.
He’s a sarcastic condescending knob. And it’s not a ‘take’, it’s my opinion and I am entitled to it.
He's a massive spanner.
So… a take?