Ricky says it all
13.09.2008 | 00:41 | Autor: Jannis Walz
Der Ausschnitt ist aus dem letztjährigen “Extras”-Christmas-Special. Das war schon ziemlich die Offenbarung wie Ricky Gervais die Gesamtsituation in der Szene zusammenfasst. Großartig!
Zum mitlesen:
Andy Millman: No. What are we doing? Selling ourselves. Selling everything. The happiest day of my life – oh, quick, I’ll do the invites and bake a cake and get a press tent. Must have a press tent – it’s a wedding. I must see pictures of meself with other people I’m in the program with. Oh, now I’m pregnant, we must televise the birth. Quick, see if Ryan Seacrest will present it. Maybe it’ll make E! channel’s “100 Greatest Caesarians.” I’m not having a go at you. I’m just sick of these celebrities just living their lives out in the open all the time. Why would you do that? It’s like these pop stars who choose the perfect moment to go into rehab. They call their publicist before they call a taxi. Then they come out and they do their second autobiography – this one’s called “Love Me or I’ll Kill Myself.” Well, kill yourself then. And the papers lap it up. They follow us around and that makes people think we’re important, and that makes us think we’re important. If they stop following us around, taking pictures of us, those people wouldn’t take to the streets, going “Oh quick, I need a picture of Cameron Diaz with a pimple.” They wouldn’t care, they’d get on with something else. They’d get on with their lives. You open the paper and you see a picture of Lindsay Lohan getting out of a car, and the headline is “Cover Up Lindsay, We Can See Your Knickers.” Of course you can see her knickers – your photographer is lying in the road, pointing his camera up her dress to see her knickers! You’re literally the gutter press. And fuck you, the makers of this show as well. You can’t wash your hands of this. You can’t keep going, “Oh, it’s exploitation, but it’s what the public want.” No, the Victorian freak show never went away. Now it’s called “Big Brother” or “American Idol,” where in the preliminary rounds we wheel out the bewildered to be sniggered at by multimillionaires. And fuck you for watching this at home. Shame on you. And shame on me. I’m the worst of all ’cause I’m one of those people that goes, “Oh, I’m an entertainer, it’s in my blood.” Yeah, it’s in my blood, ’cause a real job’s too hard. I would love to have been a doctor – too hard. Didn’t want to put the work in. Would love to be a war hero – I’m too scared. So I go, “Oh, it’s what I do.” And I have someone bollocked if my cappuccino is cold, or if they look at me the wrong way. You know what a friend of mine once said? They said I’ll never be happy ’cause I’ll never be famous enough. And they were right. And if you’re watching this, I’m so sorry. You’re my best friend. You’re my only friend. And you never did anything wrong. It was everything else. I’ll never do that again. I’ll never treat you like that again. It’s eating me that you asked me a stupid question once, and I just – I could’ve answered it and I didn’t, ’cause I was – I’ll answer it now: I’d be the penguin, ’cause I could eat the flying fish. I know what you’re thinking – why doesn’t the fish fly away? Well it can’t really fly, it’s all glide and flap. They should be called “glidy flappy fish.” I’m so sorry. I’m gonna go now. Cheers everyone.
Andere legendäre “Extras”-Momente:
Kate Winslet
(“You are guaranteed an oscar if you play a mental!”)
Patrick Stewart
(“And then all her clothes fall off…”)
Ian McKellen
(“Wizard, you shall not pass!”)
Ben Stiller
(“Do you know how much “meet the Fockers” made on its opening weekend?”)
Ich fand zwar “Extras” nicht ganz so stark wie “The Office (UK)”, aber empfehlenswert ist es allemal.
P.S.:
Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant und Karl Pilkington nun mit eigener Wiki.
via Herr B.
