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Ricky Gervais Live 2 - Politics [2004] [VHS]
	Director: Dominic Brigstocke Actors: Ricky Gervais, Ash Atalla, Robin Ince, Karl Pilkington Studio: Universal Pictures UK Category: Video New (2) Used (15) Collectible (1) from £0.01 Rating: 60 reviews Sales Rank: 5911 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Media: VHS Tape Number Of Items: 1 Running Time: 68 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1 EAN: 5050582281156 ASIN: B0002W1A8W Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Release Date: November 15, 2004


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 60 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...12 Next » Expectedly "on message" but funny nonetheless January 1, 2010 Passerby (Plymouth, England) Gervais combines school-boy stories and classroom morality-tales with a few areas of currently prescribed socialist thought, including race, disability and homosexuality to produce an "on message", but still funny, stand up routine. I say "on message" because, whilst Gervais does indeed say un-PC things about disability etc, the joke is on him for his lack of so-called sensitivity concerning the subject he's mocking. He is, in effect, lampooning his non-PC political opponents as he sees them. The same technique is used in the extras section with Karl Pilkington. This time, Pilkington plays the ignoramus and Gervais trains the viewer in the "correct" thinking. "Politics" was released at the end of 2004 and so it's quite astonishing to discover a complete omission of New Labour's warmongering in a tour with such a title. Indeed, Gervais alludes to his own preference for New Labour when harking back to the eighties, preferring to dig up Tory scandals of old, rather than creatively working with an abundance of fresh material provided by New Labour at the time. He does distance himself firmly from communists, however, labelling them with every lady's favourite four letter word. So much for Gervais's biases. The show is hilarious. Gervais is a master story-teller and the way that he purposely mis-emphasis parts of his stories, I'm thinking of the morality-tale of the two mice here, had me laughing out loud. If you're not an overly politically-sensitive non-PC type then this DVD is well worth the purchase. If you like Gervais anyway then just buy it! Just laugh at anything October 21, 2009 S. LEECH (Manchester, UK) All comedians are measured on one simple scale - do people laugh at them? The holocaust wasn't funny, yet Gervais managed to convince his mindless audience that it was. Gervais is a genius - but only because he has made a fortune through identifying the weakness and lack of dignity that is the emblem of modern Britain, and has exploited it to the full. So whilst we can berate him for making fun of cancer patients, disabled people, gay people, or any of the other things that you 'feel bad' for laughing at - let's face it: if people keep laughing, he'll keep on delivering. When people are prepared to sit there and laugh at anything, we could all be making millions... Utterly Pathetic April 4, 2009 M 1 out of 4 found this review helpful Conclusive proof that this man is a one trick pony. Entitled 'Politics', I expected humour on politics but suffered about two thirds of this DVD only to find piss taking of the disabled and cheap jokes about gay sex. Nothing here that you won't find from the drunken fool in your local back street pub. The Office was a class above, this was appaling, time to retire now Ricky. Irony is an art, not an excuse October 15, 2008 Josh Tusepack 2 out of 7 found this review helpful Let's put to one side the hypocrisy of Gervais, who's now bought into the celebrity culture he tried to build his career mocking in an attempt to ingratiate himself to a young audience. Let's also put to one side the tedious 'joke' that he tried desperately to brand his 'faux' arrogance (how many times can you do that and have people believe you're 'only pretending'?). Let's just simply look at what's on offer here, and whether it's any good. The answer is no. I winced several times while watching this, not only at how unfunny the material was (cheap, lazy writing with the trademark Ricky Gervais pops at the handicapped, diseased and so on) but that the man himself had lost touch to the extent that he didn't even realise. You end up feeling quite embarrassed for him. Oh sure, the audience laughs, but it's not hard to find an audience who'll will themselves to enjoy something if you overcharge for tickets as much as Gervais. Even Jim Davidson's got a career, for crying out loud. From the way he gets his beer out, as if to say 'I'm still one of you', to the his jokes about cancer and so on, all under this tedious cloak of 'irony', with a little nudge and a wink as if to say 'we shouldn't really be laughing at this, but we realise that so it's ok', any well adjusted person will sit stony faced and conclude that The Office must have been one of those flukey moments of genius that happened to fall into the lap of a man who is essentially talentless. Karl Pilkington August 28, 2008 dickface (uganda) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful Ricky Gervais does not cut it as a Stand Up comic. He and his show is contrived and boring.People do make a lot out of his 'offensive' jokes about social taboos. But whereas social terrorists like Chris Morris are entertaining and witty, Gervais routine seems tired, pointless and just plain boring. And as this performance clocks in at 50 minutes, this viewer was left feeling a bit cheated. This la set from Gervais features an urban myth (the sauce bottle) that was old when I was at school 20 years ago; a story about a bout of diarrhoea and an inappropriate piece of clothing that Spike Milligan was telling decades ago (Spike's story ended with a pink cardigan and a trilby) and the deconstruction of nursery rhymes that look very weak in comparison to his riff on Genesis in Animals. I loved the Office, and i suspect that Gervais is a one trick pony. The extras on this dvd feature an interview with Karl Pilkington, and he is much funnier than Gervais. Showing reviews 1-5 of 60 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...12 Next »

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