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Ricky Gervais: The Big Bad Sweet GQ Interview

RICKY GERVAIS:  THE BIG BAD SWEET

BY CAROLINE VEUNAC

The new series of the genius of humor embarrassing chronic daily a friendly employee unbalance in a retirement home. Tender and corrosive, "Derek" is the image of its creator. Meet a kamikaze cream.
We could go to Buckingham with the Queen of England that would not be as impressed. In a few minutes, Ricky Gervais pass the door of the London suite where he is expected to talk about Derek, his latest TV creation (which is also the interpreter), available in France on Netflix . Him shake hands? It will touch an idol, enthroned at the top of our personal pantheon. This man physically VRP modestly created the largest TV comedy of the past 15 years. It was in 2001: The Office, squeaky portrait of a small employer imbued with his own stupidity, dizzying collection of moments of grace and embarrassment, offered us the best slice of pudding humor since the heyday of Monty Python. One year after Curb Your Enthusiasm - the sitcom misguided Larry David - Rican side Gervais embodied the English arm of a wave of déconnade malaisante carried by stand up comedians, including Louis CK is the latest manifestation dated.

So this is one of our gods that we are about to meet. A god that we tend to fear the arrows, if one sticks to the way he dressed all Hollywood during the Golden Globes 2011, of which he was the presenter fierce, sparking a controversy at least two days ? in a seraglio more used to the leg round (our favorite picnic "Is not nominated this evening: I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Two straight actors pretending to be gay either the opposite.. of some famous Scientologists ... "). Looking back, we fear for our interviewer skin.

"Wow, I just ran into Kevin Spacey in the hallway! I love House of Cards . But there are more people who die in Derek! " By winnowing his own series (which takes place in a retirement home, where it follows the blunders of a dork kindly help), Ricky Gervais, in the flesh, defuses our stage fright. Voice (slightly nasal immediately familiar), laughter (from brat), look (blunt the collar) and the handshake (warm) accompanying his preamble do not lie: in real life, the nastiest author of his generation is the nicest guy in the world.

"We should not laugh at someone to race or sexuality. But fuck the mouth of the guy who stuffed wallows exiting the taxi, yes! You were not only booze, man!"
"If your intentions are good, you can not do any harm," says he also few minutes talking about Derek, dopey character with a big heart, wearing cardigans unspeakable and a bizarre speech able to call an ambulance for an injured baby bird. Candid, whose purity contrasts with the conceit of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman pettiness, depicting the d 'Extras (2005). "My other characters had flaws, but it was usually their fault. They were jealous, selfish, egotistical. Derek, he has a dirty haircut and a tendency to say nonsense, but it is his kindness that wins. He is like us children, before we started to wear a cynical view of the world. Free and benevolent. "

Even if it has some corrosive projections about human nature and social relations, Derek is actually the least bodied Gervais comedy, the one where he gives free rein to the already perceptible tenderness below the surface, in his other series. "People were expecting me to do disturbing jokes about old ... I have a reputation to take people targeted. But do not confuse the target and the subject. We have the right to mock terrible things provided that the persons concerned are responsible for their fate. One should not laugh at someone to race or sexuality. But fuck the mouth of the guy who stuffed wallows exiting the taxi, yes! T 'that had no booze, man! " A shade that does not stop to feel part of the family "comedy of embarrassment." "With Larry David and Louis CK, navigating in the same area. Naturalist without limit, fallible characters that make ordinary stuff, horribly embarrassing situations, violated taboos ... Humour should challenge you, disturb you. That said when I watch Curb Your Enthusiasm, I realize what it's like to watch my series to me. I suffer, I do not want to see that. "

In Derek, funny but never condescending portrait of ordinary people community Gervais treats its characters with a new concern, as equals. "People see Derek and his comrades as a band of misfits. But we are much closer to the real world a medical drama where all the doctors are top models!" Quirky, humor Gervais? It is quite the opposite: taking sometimes the turn of the "difference" (Life's too short, in 2011, recounted the misadventures of a small player) is banality, the one we so under the eyes that we see the most, it makes it a subject worthy of fiction. The shape of the mockumentary, adopted from The Office, forcing us to go in one level. "I use this method because I am a slave of realism. More people can feel something, rather than just watch, the better. In the case of The Office, the device was essential because the presence of TV revealed that David Brent wanted to be famous. In Derek, it's more to dive without a filter in a world where people give freely, a world of great social value. "

The word is out. The Office of SME Derek hospice Gervais comedy way reflects a social humanism that is probably due to a childhood spent in a council flat in suburban Reading. Forty years later, the fifties exile in Los Angeles, covered with awards (including three Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards) and quoted by the Times as one of the 100 most influential people in the world , did not sacrifice the sensitivity to money and success. It is a hard worker. "I work all the time, not just when I'm sitting at my desk. When I run, I come back with an idea for a skit or three minutes to stand up. I show my girlfriend, who forbids me to do it again in public! " Reading in Hollywood, the rise of Ricky Gervais looks less like an ego-trip to an extension of the area of ​​the fight (comic). After philosophy studies at a London college and a brief career of pop star (who remembers that he was in the early 80s, the singer of the New Wave Seona Dancing? Evidence on YouTube), it begins in a university radio, where Stephen Merchant ("the first CV on the stack") became his assistant. This is the beginning of a long creative part of tennis that will lead the men to work on Meet Ricky Gervais, the first show of Gervais on Channel 4; to lead a legendary podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, designated by the Guinness Book as the most downloaded in the world; then co-create The Office, Extras and Life's too short.

After fifteen years of related crimes, Derek is the first series that Gervais only sign, while his partner took a chance on HBO with his own show, Hello Ladies, hilarious and melancholy comedy about a hapless English flirty in LA, unfortunately quickly canceled . Together, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant had more black humor. Separately, they confess their fundamental sweetness. We will not have time to question Gervais on this phenomenon. In conclusion, he launches into a pamphlet that comes yet confirm our feeling: "Kindness is essential OK, life is hard, but we will all die So why not enjoy the fact of being alive and... to judge others? "