Ricky Gervais On "David Brent: Life On The Road" & "Special Correspondents” | BUILD Series 

This interviewer is great - don't make it about you, let the subject be the focus, and interject when you need to. Great job!

The Gervais/Merchant question has been on my mind for a couple of years now. Listening to the old XFM shows and watching the Behind the Scenes of Office/Extras it seems impossible that they'd fall out. Steve was on This Morning less than a year ago and didn't seem bitter, he claimed their schedules were just ''out of sync.'' Although I noticed they're not following each other on Twitter or Instagram, which is a big statement these days. If anyone has any proof or info on this ''fall out'' I'd love to be notified. Fingers crossed for Life on the Road.

The Office is my favourite comedy, along with Alan Partridge, but I find it weird that Ricky refuses to mention Stephen Merchant. They have obviously had a falling out but his constant reference to how The Office was a success, because he was old enough to experience life before writing it, seems to be a subliminal dig at Merchant, who co wrote it when he was in his late 20s at the time

Ricky and Steve should collaborate on a show about fame, from the perspective of the Paparazzi. ...à la Extras.

i watched it for a laugh but damn hes got some awesome thought provoking stuff

Ricky, you snatched Seinfeld's joke about public speaking and death!

Great interview.

he is so good man and brillant writer!

AOL is still going?

❤

i like his stand up and i watched the office (uk) but just that tiny clip of his "band" movie reminded me how much i used to channel hop when he does that mega-cringe style.

"Look at my arms, I've been working out, a bit"

they look like twins

My cats love me! :-D they purr when I enter the room :) I think Ricky is a major talent. Can't wait to see the new film. Thank you for being an animal advocate Ricky - anyone who is cruel to animals needs to be fucking tortured.

24:32 Turns to her mom, "Jane is his girlfriend?"

Have Ricky and Steve Merchant really fallen out?! Because that would really upset me if it’s true. Edit: Just checked - in a recent interview Ricky has confirmed that there has been no fallout whatsoever!

I'm looking forward to Life on the road. I don't expect it to match The Office and I don't think it's intended to. The office and podcasts were stellar comedy. Special. Out there on their own. Everything else is at a more average level of quality. And that's not a criticism. Makes me wonder what point i'm trying to make.

i kind of liked the trailer

Karl got to wise lol

Is that the watch mojo lady?

Without the original team it ain't gonna work!

Brent knew Trump would win ❤

Why is Stephen Merchant not involved in this!?!?!?!?!

A DOG THINKS: This person feeds me, loves me and keeps me warm, they must be God. A CAT THINKS: This person feeds me, loves me and keeps me warm, I must be God.

them bags under his eyes

Love Ricky...even the Invention of Lying had it's moments of brilliance...but Special Correspondents was ...well...awful.

Such a bad interviewer. But Ricky is always fun :)

15:55 He predicts the Trump Presidency :(

What is it with this women having a fit every time Ricky mentions Trump.

That huuuuuuuu weird new laugh is going to ruin this

From what I've seen the Brent film seems like a shallow comedy about Brent, but I felt the Office was much more than that. I think Ricky is just better at making shows and not movies

Hearing Ricky talk about not wanting to be focus grouped just shows that no one says no to him when he's making these films, and seeing them it really shows. None of his directed movies (Although I haven't seen Cemetery Junction) have been good, in fact they've all been quite bad. He seems confused and I feel like America did change him. Ricky is hateful, sceptical and rude and that's what makes him so funny, suddenly trying to add sympathetic to that list doesn't really work when he attempts to make the sympathetic aspect an integral part to his films.

:(

It really bothers me when he brings up that "survey" that all kids just want to become famous and don't care what it's for. He probably started bringing that survey up like a decade ago, when I was probably the same age as those kids that were being asked then, and I can tell you right now I never wanted to become famous for famous sake, and nobody my age fucking did either. I wanted to become a pirate, or a ballet dancer or a marine biologist. At no point did me or anyone of my peers ever express this desire just to be famous, like he seems to believe. You can't just read some biased survey once on the Internet that you never credit and use that as proof that kids nowadays are so different from 40 years ago. I do know of one person who wanted really badly to become famous in their youth, and tried and failed to become a pop star, but whatever.

you know what? ricky is a serious actor... not just a funny guy

God this audience and interviewer does not get his comedy! He is too funny and its like the sound of wind

Let's hear more about your cats and Twitter. Zzz zzz zzz

special correspondents smelt, it smelt bad....real bad, in fact it stunk of lame.

Is this a joke?

Ricky was remarkably patient and tolerant with the interviewer. I felt really sorry for him. What a crap and painful interviewer. She should find another hobby.

Ricky is brilliant. Interviewer one of the worst I have ever seen.

merchant and gervais must of had a gay tiff.

Will you bring Idiot Abroad back? - Karl got too wise. We have done that. Real reason - you have fallen out with Karl and Merchant about money . power and control and refuse to work with them. Just say it. Everyone knows it.

Tired as fuck. His limited talent ran out years ago.

Gervais is shit without Stephen Merchant

Gervais was fairly interesting, but that woman is an atrocious "interviewer".

What a truly awful interviewer.

David Brent I love but Ricky Gervais is just another left wing comedian.