Ricky Gervais plans David Brent: The Movie

[Bennett Brauer]

Well remembered! Found it here around 1hr 17min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvDwZ0ga2I#t=1h17m37s  (apologise, civilised, but same principle).

Morse is right about the OED, but is being too pedantic. The s version is fine in British English, it isn't illiterate.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/realize
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/realize
https://grammarist.com/spelling/realise-realize/
https://grammarist.com/spelling/civilise-vs-civilize/
https://grammarist.com/spelling/apologise-apologize/

I find it difficult to make friends.

[FredNurke]

And it remains etymologically 'wrong' to use Z in some words, such as 'analyse' (a back-formation from 'analysis').

[Crabwalk]

Never seen Derek. Was Gittins in it, or just David Earl?

Pretty sure it wouldn't put me off anyway as I think Gittins is amazing.

The role was credited to Earl, but he uses Gittens' voice and look to a huge extent.

Believe me, watching Derek would put you off him a little bit, however unfairly. No one can fully escape that black hole.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

Well remembered! Found it here around 1hr 17min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvDwZ0ga2I#t=1h17m37s  (apologise, civilised, but same principle).

Morse is right about the OED, but is being too pedantic. The s version is fine in British English, it isn't illiterate.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/realize
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/realize
https://grammarist.com/spelling/realise-realize/
https://grammarist.com/spelling/civilise-vs-civilize/
https://grammarist.com/spelling/apologise-apologize/

I find it difficult to make friends.

With respect to Morse, he's talking out of his hoop.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Frost came down heavily on the side of 's'. Marple too.

[Cuellar]

The role was credited to Earl, but he uses Gittens' voice and look to a huge extent.

Believe me, watching Derek would put you off him a little bit, however unfairly. No one can fully escape that black hole.

It's even made me think less of Tom Basden, and he was only in it for five minutes.

[MuteBanana]

A new show from Gervais has a lot of his past cast members coming together. Is this a sign of Gervais changing? It often feels like once people have reached the end of a project with him they cut loose.

Kerry Godliman, Mandeep Dhillon and Ashley Jensen are back along with Diane Morgan and Roisin Conaty. Tony Way, Joe Wilkinson, David Earl also return and David Bradley is on board.

From IMDB: After Tony's wife dies unexpectedly, his nice-guy persona is altered into an impulsive, devil-may-care attitude taking his old world by storm.

Guessing Gervais plays Tony.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

The Invention of Dying

[Crabwalk]

Gervais pops up, predictably, in the new (and surprisingly good) Suede documentary. Some classic japes as he tells the director that his old friend Simon Gilbert looks like an old paedophile - then it's revealed that Simon's only bloody well in the room!

*Camera whip pans to Simon's face while Gervais cackles*

[Jockice]

To Coldplay's Fix You.

Was it Gervais that mentioned about 'them' being extremely physically strong, when referring to certain mentally disabled people ('mongs')? Ifrc it was on a podcast or something. I always thought this was partly the reason for his WWE-style DDT's and the like in Derek.

There was an episode of 999: What's Your Emergency on Channel 4 last night about dealing with people with learning disabilities. One of them is a lad in his late teens who likes nothing better than running away from his carers and creating havoc in pubs and cafes. It was mentioned that the staff find it hard to stop him because he's as strong as an ox, or words to that effect. So it looks like Gervais, as always, speaks the truth.

[BritishHobo]

I think to be fair to Gervais, he's done a lot for David Earl/Gittins. I've been to the extremes of Comic Book Guy hatred with Gervais, but I can't be as big a fan as I am of Gittins without appreciating Gervais. He's been employing Earl for ages before the Gittins character ever took off, his production company made the wonderful Gittins pilot (god I wish that had gone to series), he often has Gittins as a support act when he tours - which is huge when you think about what a draw Gervais is. Also it was thanks to Gervais I even got into him and the Spreaker podcasts in the first place - got obsessed with him after watching the outtakes for Cemetery Junction.

I still maintain the bit where Kev gets Derek to lick a toad is genuinely funny, even if it doesn't fit with the show at all. Just a totally unexpected bit of cruelty.

[marquis_de_sad]

No, am pretty sure Morse favoured the Z. I remember changing my spelling of such words when I saw that ep. I think it was called Ghost in the Machine. I really don't know how I remember this. It must have weighed heavily on me at the time.

Well remembered! Found it here around 1hr 17min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvDwZ0ga2I#t=1h17m37s  (apologise, civilised, but same principle).

Morse is right about the OED, but is being too pedantic. The s version is fine in British English, it isn't illiterate.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/realize
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/realize
https://grammarist.com/spelling/realise-realize/
https://grammarist.com/spelling/civilise-vs-civilize/
https://grammarist.com/spelling/apologise-apologize/

I find it difficult to make friends.

Oxford prefers 'z', Morse is in Oxford, so he prefers 'z'. While 's' is acceptable, Morse is being humorously intolerant for parochial reasons.

[yesitsme]

I laughed massively when the alcoholic sexual offender taught the little fella with greasy hair to say/do something which others living in that society would find it offensive to say/do. But then a song with a minor-major key change started playing, and this made me totally re-think what I had been laughing at mere moments ago in the past.

I always thought mongs were useless beasts who should be injected with deathjuice the moment they slithered out of their mothers, but this TV show made me realise that mongs are actually closer to humans than they are to lizards. *mind = blown* Nowadays, whenever I see a mong or some mongs walking towards me on the street, and I start feeling the urge to burn their noses with my cigarette lighter or make them shove twigs up each others' arseholes, I quickly put Coldplay on my phone. Thirty seconds later my mind is re-zoned, and I generally end up hugging and licking the mongs while telling them they are almost human, as I cry and dribble snot onto their five pound Asda jackets.

Bravo to Mr Gervais for so subtly teaching me the truth about mongs, spackers, and flids.

Aww, fucking hell.  I thought I'd read this whole thread but I must have missed this and it's just what I needed today.  Genuinely sat here with tears of laughter in my eyes.

More mongs please (he's not a mong).
#mongalongakindoldmong