Ricky Gervais

If you care, I'm feeling great today. Boring day at work though. Lots of whinging about the air con and air humidity.

To business. Ricky Gervais gig last night. Yes I laughed, but I came out not liking him and feeling that he'd been a bit cynical. He was trying too hard to be an edgy comic. He kept queuing jokes up as racist, when they weren't, saying stuff like, "I'd better be careful or I'll be the next Bernard Manning." He's got too much too lose to allow that too happen, so why lie? The audience knows he'd never over step the mark. When he came on, it looked to me he was reacting to non existent heckling. He couldn't even be arsed to leave a decent interval between coming off stage and returning for the "encore". He was laying into Dawn French, of all people, over a trivial gag she and Jennifer Saunders at this expense. French and Saunders passed their sell by date years ago, so why pick a feud? He had a big thing about obesity not being a disease but his example was 400lb people, people who eat 10 pies in a day. An extremely soft target in so many ways. He didn't have the balls to go for the sort of tubby types that go to his gigs. I guess seeing Julian Clary the week before spoilt me. Clary was so funny I was aching from laughter. He was also genuine, honest and heartfelt in stark contrast to "gags by numbers" Gervais.