Spectacularly Not-Funny Teasers For Ricky Gervais' DEREK

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Spectacularly Not-Funny Teasers For Ricky Gervais' DEREK
Ricky Gervais, we should remind ourselves, is a very funny man. His stand up work proves it, as does his run on the original UK version of The Office. But he is also a man who has struggled mightily to find any sort of audience outside of his Office and stand up personaes. His Office follow up Extras was basically the exact same formula simply transposed into a different context, as was his Warwick Davis starring Life's Too Short. Both series were funny, sure, but became increasingly familiar as they went on prompting many to speculate openly that Gervais may be little more than a one trick pony. And while he has tried to branch out in his feature work the results have been middling at best.

So good on Gervais for at least trying something new with his upcoming series Derek, in which he co-stars with his An Idiot Abroad cohort Karl Pilkington as employees of a low grade retirement home. He is trying to branch out and that's good. However, if the five clips released ahead of the April 12th premiere are any indication, he is also failing miserably. His performance seems to amount to nothing more than a slouch and jutted out lower jaw and the clips are excruciatingly not funny. Bluntly, Derek appears to be by far the worst mis-step of Gervais' career. You can take a look at the clips below to judge for yourself.
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