But funnier than me hamming it up as a mental is the somewhat illiterate reply. Ricki? Ho ho.
Thank you for your e-mail regarding 'Concert for Diana'.
I understand that you felt that Ricki Gervais could have had some material prepared for his time on stage.
However this was a live event and whilst Ricki Gervais was to introduce Elton John a technical fault occurred, therefore he had to hold the stage until it was fixed.
Ricki Gervais then sang a song and done the famous dance from his hit series 'The Office'. A lot of people found this very entertaining, and Ricki did deal with the situation as best he could.
I do hope that you can appreciate that it was a live event and matters such as this can occur with out any notice.
I also note that you feel that Will Young or Girls Aloud could have filled this space, but as mentioned before, it was a live event and the team were unaware that a technical fault was to occur.
I do hope apart from this that you enjoyed the programme.
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Why you felt so strongly as to write to them really boggles the mind - the guy was asked to fill time - so did so the best way he could - let us not forgert that any comedian coming on in the middle of a rock concert is going to have an uphill struggle. Peter Kay bombed at Live 8 and itwas only Amarillo that vaguely saved his ass. Gervais was very funny indeed - the guys a raw talent - you can tell he scripted ben stilers piece - then did a bit of stand up which the prince's and their legion loved (obviously big fans) - its difficult to have any kind of following in a stadium like wembley with a complete cross range of kids, students, young adults, adults, oldies princess di-hard fans (distasteful pun? who gives) - the guy did a splendid job in front of1 BILLION ODD PEOPLE and its a testament to hid good nature to do the dance, yet again when everyone just kept shouting it at him!! He's a national treasure and if you're so intensley cynical about something as so nothing-toget-cynical-about - next time write to the bbc and complain about their rubbish coverage of wimbledon ---it was a live event!!!
ReplyDeleteRicky Gervais is a real talent. He doesn't do "shtick". If you want "always-on", hire Robin Williams. I thought what Ricky did was exactly what I would expect of him. He was unapologetically himself. I myself find him incredibly refreshing. His humour hits too close to home for a lot of people. It's "cringe-worthy" in it's honesty which actually elevates it to something akin to art. My son, who is 18 year old and thus at an age in which embarrassment is a way of life, has a lot of trouble watching "The Office" because he finds the main character of David Brent to be too hard to watch. I can understand that. But I can also appreciate it. I think what people really want from celebrities is phony sencerity and canned "personality". Is Ricky perfect and lacking faults? No. Thank God for that!
ReplyDeleteAll of the anti-Ricky sentiment pouring out from bored prats and layabouts chafes me. Why not do something worthwhile instead of slagging someone whose made a bleeding contribution to the world?
ReplyDeleteConcert For Diana, hahahaha. I could stomach about 20 minutes of it at different times during the day - 'twas painful viewing.
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