You can tell Cheggers was a lovely man. I told him a cheesy joke on Twitter once and he took the time out to DM me saying it made him laugh. Such a sad loss
@@FreddieShreddieTV fuck!!! I was never interested in him before he was on extras ( when are game show hosts ever interesting .. ( escl8ding Micheal Barrymoore and John Leslie ) But I was impressed with him in this!! He was brutal with himself all so other people could have a laugh at his image ..
This series is utter genius. It tackles every single subject in life. It so poignant and beautiful but always done with the immense platform of humour . Completely outstanding x
Extras really is exceptional. I don't think it gets the recognition it deserves these days (it did at the time) just because it's overshadowed historically by Ricky and Stephen's preceding programme. The final episode of Extras is extraordinary.
In addition to be being hilarious, this is a legitimately amazing featurette. These are all well-respected and genuinely talented people offering insight into what it's like filming the absurd and how truly difficult it is! Also, it's a bloody riot. 🤣
I bet Ricky watched Cheggers Plays Pop on TV in the 70s too. I remember him on the Big Breakfast in the 90s. He was always so upbeat and likeable. It's great to see how well he and Ricky gel in this. "Cheggers Plays Cock" haha!
I love it when they laugh hysterically while breaking character especially when talking dirty. They are human beings after all. You know people would probably pay a moderate amount of money to see these kind of dirty outtakes in a complimation video sold on DVD.
I swear, the 3rd time he says, "Ivy restaurant", the head turn he does is downright attacking! XD It's like he's bloody throwing the words out his mouth at her, DEMANDING the laugh! Lmao, what a wit.
Oh the worst thing about corpsing becomes the anticipation! After the first two times, you know the funny line or moment is coming up and you're practically dying laughing before you even get to it! It makes it so impossible. I've also tried the running around to kind of burn off the energy
Ian once said on Graham Norton how much fun he had on Extras, and how much he loved the script. In his words 'the laughs just fall out'. A lot of the time you laugh because youre expecting the line at any moment.
I'll never forget the day when a colleague and I were invited to attend the engineering apprentice's project presentations. So we're in this (what I would deem) overly formal presentation in this meeting room for this lad's shield project presentation. He's going through talking about the project management tools he used, the concept selection methods, Gantt charts etc. Then when he described the final design solution and talked through it, someone asked how much it would weigh, to which the lad replied "500 kilos." Will the second it left his lips and long before he could correct himself I snorted. Then all I could hear behind me was my friend trying his absolute hardest to stifle a laugh, which in turn made me want to burst out laughing. I can say the next five minutes were the hardest five minutes of a meeting I'd ever endured. It wasn't that funny, but it was just how it was such a facade meeting being taking so seriously, as if he was from BAE or Rheinmetall or something, then he tells us his personal shield system design weighed 500kg. Like why did he say 500? He couldn't have meant grams or lbs. What did he mean to say? 😂
I think an upside to corpsing is whenever someone loses it because of one of the minor details that remind you of the absurdity of what you're doing, you can then re-do the line and emphasize what made the other actor laugh to make the scene funnier. Of course you then have to get through it without laughing eventually.
Ironically whilst watching the "Ivy Restaurant" out takes, I suddenly realised how annoying it must be for all those background extras having to constantly reset and walk into shot on queue. At some point you must be thinking "screw this".
Honestly, it probably is a little indulgent even if they don't want to do that. But I don't think anyone begrudges that unless they're just jealous. I mean, if I got to have a job where one of my biggest problems was not being able to stop laughing, I'd consider that a success.
In the US we have 'comedians' that breaking up during a scene, even a live show like SNL, (read Jimmy Fallon" who intentionally use it to steal scenes. A substitute for talent, but remember it's America.
As a 2nd AD, you cant imagine how annoying this is :) Just have to grin and bear it :) Take after take after take after take and the I reach hour 18 of my day :) See you in the morning after makeup to do your 1 hour of work :)
Hilarious. I've never acted but I actually have corpsed before whilst helping someone with a training presentation in front of a classroom. The other person was being marked on her presentation which made it worse. Bloody hilarious and awful at the same time.
I think, because it's "fake outtakes" it's just not doing it for me.. and I'm usually on the floor crying, holding my stomach because I hurt from laughing so much. This just isn't the same. 🤷
