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| Ricky Gervais Live 3 - Fame [2007] | ![Ricky Gervais Live 3 - Fame [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WkGkRHEyL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actor: Ricky Gervais
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 1041
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 78 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582495386
ASIN: B000NQDE0Y
Release Date: November 12, 2007
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 Cringe inducing - not in a good way September 29, 2008
This show really shows up Ricky Gervais' woeful lack of experience as a stand-up comedian. The lack of structure, the self-indulgent 'corpsing', and the weakness of the material, all indicate a lazy approach which would have a fledgling comic shouted off the stage at any open-mike night at the local boozer. However, this is Ricky Gervais - so well known that he can say anything in a tone of squeaky outrage and it will raise a laugh.
Did he ever actually mention fame? I don't remember. Just a lot of laboured lines about teenage cancer sufferers and old jokes (well, they sounded old) about fat people, gays and foreigners.
 Hilarious September 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This show was VERY funny, so don't pay attention to the negative reviews - it seems they have nothing better to do.
Watch it for yourself and make your own minds up - it was extremely funny and anyone with any intelligence can see none of his material was ever done in a malicious way. I honestly didn't find any of his material offensive at all (including the cancer jokes), and think people should lighten up(!). Cancer affects 1 in 3 people (not just little kids) and if you can't joke about it, I wonder what this world is coming to.
True colours September 16, 2008
An insecure performance with unpleasant undertones.Ive never liked bullies and highlighting differences in this way for laughs seems very old fashioned comedy and not very clever.Seems like he saves his best material for TV.
milking it August 5, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
You wonder what all the fuss is about...you watch 'The Office' and think it is on its way to reaching perfection. You watch 'Extras' and you mostly witness really mediocre material with rogue sharp and very funny television moments; usually featuring Merchant, Williamson or Jensen. You think the Podcasts just get progressively worse but have a sneaking admiration for Pilkington; the podcasts are a vehicle for him and rightly so. You get tired of that stupid switch-on-and-off Gervais girlie-laugh, 'head like a...orange', 'you're an idiot!' schtick.
You watch 'Animals' and feel that aside from the mildly amusing Rick Waller joke, this is third-rate end of the pier stuff writ large. You think 'someone so championed, not least by themselves, will not make a second bad live show...much too shrewd.' In the meantime, you look at the success of 'Flanimals' and at least see why kids love those books...good, silly fun. Why not? You watch 'Politics' and the jokes are pretty wafer-thin and you are incredulous that the material is this lacklustre and predictable. And yet...still the awards roll in...BAFTAS, EMMYS...so, you think, 'what is it I am missing here?' Then 'Fame' hits the screen...you think, 'at last...good opening...he's going to be great this time...' But, no. Gervais fails to bring a smile throughout the show.
And you decide that it doesn't matter how many records get broken, how many awards are supplied, how many films get made and how much pomp surrounds Gervais. This is a man who is a PR man to rival Barnum. He tells everyone he is great so often that the myth becomes bigger than the man. You watch 'Live Aid (slight return)',The Diana concert', the cringe-inducing Garry Shandling interview, that woeful episode of 'The Simpsons'... and you are confronted with a severe lack of talent on the screen... you note how very inadequately Gervais handles even the slightest criticism of what he does.
You have watched this man's every move and product because the media and Gervais would have you believe he is comic gold and you are about to witness the best and you want it to be true. You cannot believe how someone who co-created something as brilliant as 'The Office' could get away with so much mediocre dross in its wake. And you realise that this man has terrific business-savvy and could personally charm Vatican staff into leading an atheist rally; This man is not a comic genius. Gervais cannot do stand-up any near as well as Richard Pryor or George Carlin (RIP) or Garry Shandling (a few great stand-ups)...he's not anywhere as good or as inventive as Ross Noble, Lee Evans, Jimmy Carr, Bill Bailey etc. Gervais is marginally better than someone you can see for free at a seaside resort. I hope those films are good...
The one that made me HATE Gervais. July 1, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I actually went to see this show live. I want to save a lot of people a lot of time and money: DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS!
I spent a fortune on tickets to this show, and it was, frankly, pathetic. Robin Ince was a great intro. act- Loved him. The one star rating is actually for him, because, frankly, Gervais deserves nothing.
His set tells crude and disgusting "jokes" clearly designed to 'shock' and make him appear more edgy. Jokes about kids with cancer? How low can you get?? He clearly feels threatened by more modern and original comedians.
He also did a basic rehash of jokes he used a few years ago on his channel 4 chat show (Didn't think anybody would remember that did you Gervais?)... He also did a completely forced piece where he 'cannot stop laughing'- Before anyone says I'm being cynical, I know at least 5 people who saw the show in different places on different dates and he did the exact same piece at every show. He also repeated some jokes from 'Animals' and 'Politics'!!!
With all this repetation and tastelessness you might think the set was at least a long one? Not by my watch- 50 minutes. Plus a short encore (Totally pathetic- Desperate to show off how much money he's made.).
Fame simply provides Gervais with a reason to blab about how much financial gain he has had from showbiz.... Plus to have a total ego trip about his own comedy- Which, frankly, does not impress anyone anymore.
At least he has a load of famous friends to fall back on.... Ooops, I meant acting career.
You'd be better off buying the new Boosh DVD, or the comedy of another comedian who hopefully has more respect for his audience.
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