You aren’t alone if you could watch only some of The Call Centre, BBC3’s fly-on-the-wall series filmed at a Swansea cold-call factory, where bad banter met worse suits. The man in charge, Nev (that’s him in the brown suit with one of his acolytes) emerged instantly as a real-life David Brent, dispensing business park maxims and behaviour to make an HR department shudder.
Friday 08 February 2013
Who needs stage presence when you can do pop-by-numbers?
Thursday 31 January 2013
Gervais claims the character in his controversial new sitcom isn't meant to be disabled - but how is he perceived?
Saturday 28 July 2012
"The night's most enduring band – with Le Bon in Union Jack jacket – enter after a brief, bracing deluge"
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Kelner's view
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Those who know him only as the ribald host of the Golden Globes in Hollywood will be unaware that Ricky Gervais was once Britain's most strikingly prescient socio-political satirist. Long before last year's outbreak of "mong" warfare on Twitter, Gervais produced an uncannily accurate predictive metaphor for the Tory attitude towards the disabled, on view this week as the Welfare Reform Bill wended its contentious way through the Lords.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
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