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Action.

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I can't act with this.

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So, here we are, "the lads".

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Gonna talk about Extras,
the cracking new sitcom.

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- Not a fan?
- Yeah, it's all right.

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Not as good as The Office, in your opinion?

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Didn't like The Office much.

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I thought it was overrated
to be honest, but erm...

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- You know, it was...
- Extra Extras.

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I will unleash hell.

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Well, it was a pretty daunting prospect

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with people saying,
"it's the difficult second album".

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But the thing about a difficult second album
is it's not the album that's difficult,

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it's all the people that like
the first thing you did that are difficult.

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I think the only way you can avoid
the difficult second album syndrome

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is to make sure
your first album's not very good.

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Yeah. Whereas ours was a blinder.

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You know, in a lot of people's opinions.
Not ours, but, you know, certainly...

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The Golden Globe boys liked it.

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- The Golden Globes.
- And the BAFTA cats.

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Yeah, yeah, the old RTS dudes.

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- They thought it was wicked.
- High-five, man, for all those awards.

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- Could you see me?
- Yeah, definitely.

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Excellent. We'll get out
before that fat little extra gets his face in.

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Yep.

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It was never meant to be a satire indictment

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of modern-day film and TV.

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That was just a backdrop. Rather like
the backdrop of The Office was selling paper.

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It was more about relationships,
and so was this.

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This is about, you know, people's struggle
and getting on and ego and desperation.

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You haven't even been in The Bill, have you?

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- I don't want to be in The Bill.
- You haven't even been in The Bill?

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Listen, I don't want to be in The Bill.

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- Have you ever been in Casualty?
- Yeah.

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- The TV show Casualty?
- Well, no, but... No.

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There was a couple of different ideas
we were toying with,

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but whilst we still had a certain cachet
from The Office,

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it seemed silly not to be able to use that.

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And the idea of using the stars

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was never like to try and be kind of really,
sort of "in-jokey",

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and let's pat ourselves on the back
for having some showbiz mates.

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It was just to try and add as much realism
to the world as possible.

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And because you already had a perception
of who they were,

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because you thought you knew them
from tabloids or whatever else,

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then you could play with the image
they already had.

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And it was like a shortcut to comedy.

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You get straight in
and they were sort of funny...

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Well, that was the important point.

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We were getting them because
they came with a certain amount of baggage

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that we could deconstruct.

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And, you know, you notice they all played
sort of twisted versions of themselves.

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You are guaranteed an Oscar
if you play a mental.

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We had a list of people we wanted
to approach and we knew were fans.

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Whenever an A-list celebrity
said it in the press

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their favourite show was The Office,
we made a mental note and we thought,

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"We'll call them one day. They can
put their money where their mouth is."

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And we did, and they all said yes.

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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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Tell him Uncle Sam's in town.

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RICKY: First day of filming was
Sam Jackson. We had him for one day.

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And we actually weren't in production.
So we had to start production a month early.

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We had to build the set,
get Sam Jackson over,

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get all the crew and cast together
for one day,

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do the day with Sam Jackson,
and then pack it all away for a month.

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STEPHEN: And it was kind of confusing,
it was like a fake movie.

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It meant that there was a fake film crew,
fake catering, fake lights,

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fake directors, everything.

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And it was just... It was quite confusing.

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We didn't know who was fake, who was real.

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I kept getting fooled by the fake catering,
didn't I?

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Yeah, I know.
You were even eating the fake doughnuts.

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- The props.
- Yeah.

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Well, they taste the same.
Apparently they were a few days old.

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I have to say that working with the fake
Ricky Gervais was an absolute joy.

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In fact, he was much easier to work with
than the real one.

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I'm looking forward... I'm actually working
on a project with him at the moment.

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- Good.
-It's really good.

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I know you're married

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but, if you wanted to,
you could be up her like a rat up a drainpipe.

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It was so funny. I've never seen
a cast and crew just so quiet and respectful

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as when someone said,

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"Mr Jackson's on his way down
from his dressing room."

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And he came down with his people
and everyone was silent

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like a room full of 100 people, just silent.

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We were really quiet and everything.
We didn't know what to do, you know.

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And then Sam just bent down
to tie up his shoelace.

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And it just took for about 30 seconds,

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and everyone was still quiet,
just waiting for him to finish.

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And I thought I'd break the ice, and I went,
"I can't believe he ties his own shoelaces!"

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And he said, "I'm slumming it."

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- People laughed.
- Yeah.

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- Nervously, but they laughed.
- Nervously, yeah. And then it was fine.

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And are you happy with that?

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RICKY: We had him for one day,
which we thought was mad,

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which we thought was going to be so tight.

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And because he came along,
we told him basically where to sit.

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He knew the words. He did it in one take.

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<i>I mean, he did it in one take,
but, I mean, it was perfection.</i>

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Tell him Uncle Sam's in town.

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- That's great.
- Great. We got that.

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And we laughed and went,
"Do you want to just do it again?"

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- We didn't know what to say.
- Yeah.

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Because he is the most
professional person I've ever worked with.

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But then of course,
I've only ever really worked with you.

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And that's not really any...
You know, doesn't really count.

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No, but when you get two professionals
like me and Sam together,

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- it's...
- Yeah. Sparks fly.

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-It's quick. It's quick work.
- Yeah.

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That's the sort of people
I'm hanging around with now.

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It's not just a one-off, we...

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- We've known each other for ages.
- Let me tell you.

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- Let's go to that place we always go to.
- I thank him for this opportunity, you know?

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I mean, it's like,
he always told me that when he made it,

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he was gonna pull me up behind him.

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Here I am.

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- Thank you.
- A man of his word.

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Sam Jackson.
We're mates, just normal mates.

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- Friends.
- Look at that.

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- I know that.
- He's got it all going on.

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- Ricky, you all right, mate?
- I'm carrying...

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They're falling through. I'm trying to
carry all my pens and pencils around,

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but they keep going through my fingers
and everything.

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It's really weird you should say that,

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'cause I think I might have the solution
for you right here.

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What about like a little sort of pencil case.

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- Will that work?
- Well, we could have a go, I don't know.

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All goes in there.

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That seems to be working a treat.

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- That is perfect.
- Isn't that better for you?

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Well, yeah, but how much is this,
about £1,000 I imagine, isn't it?

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No, no, no, just a couple of quid.

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- That's brilliant value as well.
- Yeah.

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And it solves the problem of...

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If you've got a lot of loose pens,
then just pop them in there.

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We asked 100 people,
"Will Les Dennis ever hang on to a bird?"

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Our survey said...

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We asked 100 people,

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"Do you want to go out tonight
and watch Les Dennis in panto?"

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Our survey said...

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After we'd done our one day of filming
with Samuel Jackson,

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then we went away,
and a month later, we came back

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and we reconvened at Wimbledon Theatre.

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And we filmed with Les Dennis.

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- He was a joy, wasn't he?
- It was an absolute pleasure.

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So funny, so funny.

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And so willing to just
throw himself in 100%, unbelievable.

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RICKY: The stuff we were doing,
about him and his life, and that...

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And he was making things worse for himself.

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He was coming up with other stuff
we didn't know about.

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No, it was absolutely great.

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Apart from me having to dress up as a genie.

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- Blimey, what a big puff.
-(CAMP VOICE) Cheeky. Hmm.

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Now, I don't like even putting on,
you know...

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- Clothes.
- Yeah.

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<i>A wig, out of the question. A hat annoys me.</i>

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- Yes.
- Any sort of makeup.

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And in this genie thing,
I had to have full-body makeup

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and these awful, horrible things
with that hat on it.

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I thought, "at least it'll look good,
I've got a nice tan".

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No, I looked like Judith Chalmers. It was...

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Whose body did you use for that?
For the genie sequence?

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- It was awful.
- It was particularly...

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I was... The shoes were killing me.

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<i>I don't know why I do this.
I actually don't know why... I hate this.</i>

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I don't why I've chosen this as my job.

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I hate the lights, I hate the heat,
I hate filming, and having to be articulate,

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I hate sweating, I hate looking fat on camera.

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Is there a job... What job can I do that's
basically laying down with air conditioning?

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-It's...astronaut?
- Yeah.

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I'll do that.

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Actually, the good thing
about the astronaut is,

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I like weeing in the clothes
you have to wear all day.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And eating through a straw.

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That's it, I'm gonna be an astronaut.

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WISHY: Can you help us?
We're in danger, the evil Abanazar is after us.

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- What makes you think that?
- We heard him say he wants to get Aladdin.

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Don't we all?

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I'm interested to know what the origin
of the genie character was.

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Well, it's a character I had,

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that I filmed, I think
for Meet Ricky Gervais, that we didn't use.

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I don't know why.
It was called Dirty Old Queer.

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And it was basically...

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Perhaps, if people are unfamiliar with that,

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perhaps you'd like to do a little bit
of DOQ right now.

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- Give us your glasses, then.
- Sure.

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Hmm.

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You're a big boy.

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- That's it, actually.
- Brilliant.

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That's three characters you've done.

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You've done David Brent. We all love that.

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You've done Andy Millman.

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And you've done Dirty Old Queer.

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That's extraordinary. You are...
It's like being in a room with Peter Sellers.

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I've been in that lamp so long
I'm bent out of all recognition.

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Rick, I imagine a lot of fans are wondering

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how you developed
the character of Andy Millman,

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'cause, you know, it's such a huge break
from David Brent.

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Yeah, a couple of things.
I tried to, well, I thought, all right,

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lose Brent, lose Brent, lose Brent,
lose Brent, lose the tie.

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Right, yeah.

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- Shave off the beard.
- Sure.

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Andy Millman.

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Well, no, it worked. I know it worked.

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And the transition was huge.
I don't think anyone...

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It was like, "Wow, is this the same guy
playing him? I don't know what's going on."

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You know.
I thought this was starring Ricky Gervais.

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- I'm a chameleon.
- Yeah.

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-Isn't it? Yeah.
- Absolutely.

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Slate one, Take one, A and B cameras.

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First day of filming, that day at Wimbledon,
that went smoothly.

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And I was thinking, "Oh, this is a new Ricky.

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"This is a new kind of professional,
focused Ricky Gervais."

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'Cause having had the experience
of The Office, I was a bit worried.

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And I was thinking, "He seems very kind of
focused on it, he's very centred."

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Particularly when we're directing together,
literally behind the monitors,

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he's not in the scene, then he was
really paying attention, it was really exciting.

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I can concentrate on that now, 'cause
it's not... When you're acting and directing,

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you're all over the place.

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Whereas when we're both
behind the monitor,

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I've just got one thing to focus on.

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Well, you say that, but it lasted about a day,
if you recall,

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because our cameraman,
who was called Martin Hawkins,

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now that got Ricky's mind working.

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RICKY: It's little Martin Hawkins,
or "The Hawk" to his friends.

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- Morning.
- We call him Martin Hawkins.

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And for the next few hours...

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- You were just working on bird puns.
- Yeah.

229
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Tell Martin he's got a feather in his cap.

230
00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,199
Was he winging that?

231
00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,031
I knew he wasn't paying attention.

232
00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,389
- But you got sucked in...
- I got sucked in.

233
00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,675
Are we ready to go again?

234
00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,274
Could you just tell The Hawk
he's got a feather in his cap for that one?

235
00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,274
Yeah, but we want to try and claw
some time back before lunch, if we can.

236
00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,158
But just say it was egg-cellent.

237
00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,869
That's the good thing about laziness
and unprofessionalism.

238
00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:37,359
It rubs off on people around you.

239
00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,113
- Yeah.
- Sooner or later.

240
00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,593
- I'll bring you down to my level.
- It's like cholera.

241
00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,600
Can you promise me
you're gonna concentrate on this take,

242
00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:48,591
and not just be thinking of bird names?

243
00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,589
- I can't promise that.
- I know, I can tell.

244
00:11:57,680 --> 00:11:58,954
I can't promise it.

245
00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,839
Oh, God. He knew what I was thinking.

246
00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,794
- All right?
- Yeah.

247
00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,474
I also know it's...
Apart from he had a funny name, "Hawk",

248
00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,518
which I think he liked towards the end,
the nickname "The Hawk",

249
00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,559
he also looked like Wolfie Smith's mate
in Citizen Smith.

250
00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,712
<i>STEPHEN: It is uncanny.
It does, it looks just like him, yeah.</i>

251
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RICKY: That's Kate Winslet there, of Titanic.

252
00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:24,910
Hi.

253
00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,833
I remember panicking
leading up to film with Kate Winslet,

254
00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,560
because there's a line in the show

255
00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:35,032
that she's been nominated four times
and never won an Oscar.

256
00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,232
And she was up for an Oscar, wasn't she?

257
00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,472
About a few weeks before the show
we were going to film with her.

258
00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,029
And we were going,
"I hope she doesn't win one."

259
00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,556
I was actually watching it, going,
"Please don't give Kate Winslet an Oscar."

260
00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,916
- That would ruin the line in the script...
- One joke.

261
00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,037
...that we could change in 30 seconds.

262
00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,512
But luckily, Rick, she wasn't the best actress
that year, and she didn't get the Oscar.

263
00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:03,355
(COUGHING)

264
00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:09,520
(WOMEN GASPING)

265
00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:11,435
With the film sequences,

266
00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:15,036
we were always trying to make them
feel as real and as convincing as possible,

267
00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:19,318
just, again, to add some credibility
and some reality to the show.

268
00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,392
And when Kate Winslet came over,
we had this cellar built,

269
00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,472
so that we could have her
kind of hiding these Jewish refugees.

270
00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:27,517
As we were filming,
we were really getting into it.

271
00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,238
And Ricky was there kind of off-camera,

272
00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,597
just explaining how he wanted them
to react, so he'd be saying, you know...

273
00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:34,512
They're coming down the stairs now.

274
00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,589
"And they're coming to the door.
Oh, they're going away.

275
00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:42,000
"And then someone coughs."

276
00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:45,839
And everyone was really getting into it.

277
00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,515
And this was working really effectively
for the first couple of takes.

278
00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,353
Then, of course, Ricky got bored.

279
00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,158
They're going away.

280
00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,870
This time, someone farts.

281
00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,639
We only had Kate Winslet
for a small window of time,

282
00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,236
but that makes no difference to him
when he's got a thought in his head.

283
00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,837
- That's Ben Stiller.
- Yeah.

284
00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,311
All right? That's Ben Stiller.
That's who you're dealing with

285
00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,873
when you do a project
with Ricky Gervais, okay?

286
00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,397
You get the second-best comedy actor
in the world in it as well.

287
00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,198
One and two, they're right here.

288
00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:46,229
We had Ben Stiller for two days,
and it rained on those two days.

289
00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:47,749
STEPHEN: Yeah, it was a nightmare.

290
00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,638
I don't think he'd ever filmed
in Britain before.

291
00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,280
RICKY: I know.
STEPHEN: And he stood around in mud.

292
00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:53,920
RICKY: Just think of that.

293
00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,756
The only example he's got of filming
in Britain is a rainy day near Slough,

294
00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,878
with me complaining
about my cheese toasty.

295
00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,074
Nerd? I'm a nerd?

296
00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,358
Yeah, okay, I'm a nerd.

297
00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,158
What was interesting, I noticed,

298
00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,151
was that we had these real extras,
obviously, working there,

299
00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,516
and sometimes we'd ask Ben
to improvise a scene,

300
00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,637
and he'd just start incorporating
these extras into it.

301
00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,313
They threw themselves into it,
they were mad.

302
00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,837
RICKY: Our real extras on this, our real
supporting artists in Extras were great.

303
00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,957
Well, the sequence where Ben is showing

304
00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,715
how he wants a woman to be
kind of brutalised by some soldiers

305
00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,077
and he's ramming a gun in her face,
she was just an extra there on that day,

306
00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,356
and she's down on her knees
and he's pointing a gun at her.

307
00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,351
She went with it, she was just reacting.

308
00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,159
Boom, you jam her in the mouth,
break her jaw on the first one.

309
00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,675
Boom! Second one nose, okay.
Her jaw's broken,

310
00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,956
she's swallowed her teeth,
blood's coming out, all right?

311
00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,714
Then you smack her again across the side,
breaking the neck.

312
00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,074
RICKY: That was funny, that day.

313
00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:51,870
Getting an old lady down in mud
and battering her with the end of a rifle.

314
00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:53,598
- Yeah.
- That's comedy.

315
00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:54,875
That's comedy.

316
00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,398
If you wanna work with me.

317
00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,554
What do you mean, the Mitchell brothers?
You know his name is Ross Kemp.

318
00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,311
Inevitably, the focus of the press
when the show came out

319
00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,038
was on the guest appearances by the stars.

320
00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,350
But for us, the kind of key relationship,
the key dynamic

321
00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,238
was between Andy and Maggie.

322
00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,118
What bit's confusing you?

323
00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,195
The brothers.

324
00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,829
In a sense, we wanted
quite a traditional sort of double act.

325
00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:23,558
Yeah, it was quite Laurel and Hardy.

326
00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,712
It's that sort of "blind leading the blind"
type of thing,

327
00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,873
where she's even more,
sort of, useless and stupid than me.

328
00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,317
Is that confusing you, too?
Do you think we've landed in the future?

329
00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:36,754
Shut your face.

330
00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,597
You want that feeling that they're okay,

331
00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,274
'cause, you know, at least
they've got someone to talk to, really.

332
00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:43,759
Yeah, at least they've got each other.

333
00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,632
Erm...

334
00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,839
I'm not wearing anything.

335
00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,759
(CREW LAUGHING)

336
00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,075
You?

337
00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,152
STEPHEN: We spent ages casting
to try and find someone...

338
00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,959
We wanted to find someone
who was fairly new, a fairly new face.

339
00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:03,318
But they had to come straight in and play
loads of scenes, you know, opposite Ricky.

340
00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:06,433
I'm not wearing anything.

341
00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,919
No, you're not wearing anything?

342
00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,640
Hey, both of us are not wearing anything.

343
00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:17,795
I imagine it was quite daunting for her
to come in and act with Hollywood A-listers.

344
00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,831
Also, the way we work, we throw things
at people, don't we, quite a lot?

345
00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,399
And we change our minds.

346
00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,596
We don't literally throw things at them.

347
00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,069
- No. No.
- Not tennis balls or...

348
00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,755
But there was one scene we had to do
where she was cleaning up her flat

349
00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,719
in Episode 6,
and we said, "Okay, just clean up".

350
00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,509
And after about five minutes,
we all sneaked away.

351
00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,318
RICKY: A crew of 50 people.

352
00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:48,755
We crept away and hid.

353
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,559
STEPHEN: Well, it was because
she was really getting into the cleaning.

354
00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,359
We just left the cameras running,
and she went on and on,

355
00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,750
and she basically cleaned the whole flat.

356
00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,193
And there's 50 grownups
hiding and giggling.

357
00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,071
(CREW CHUCKLING SOFTLY)

358
00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,150
- All at the license-fee payer's expense.
- Yeah.

359
00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,035
- What a crazy guy...
- If you wanna work with me.

360
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,117
(RICKY LAUGHING)

361
00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,477
RICKY: I can't believe how long you went on.

362
00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,755
I was getting quite into it.

363
00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,674
I know, that's what we thought.
That's why we all left the building.

364
00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:37,910
That cooker's a terrible state.

365
00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,476
What's happening there?
You look like you're having a nightmare.

366
00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,439
- What have you got there?
- I've got my press cuttings for the show.

367
00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,955
You're not gonna go out
in the windy weather with them, are you?

368
00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,759
I'm going out now, it's really windy.
I know, but what can I do about it?

369
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,311
It's funny you should mention that,
because I don't think that you've seen these.

370
00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,958
-It's a ring binder.
- All right.

371
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,509
So all you need
is to just hole-punch them, mate.

372
00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,470
And you could, you know, use that
handy section and just slip them in there.

373
00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,233
That is excellent.

374
00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,152
- Is that available to buy that?
-It's available to buy.

375
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,675
Again, you're probably wondering,
"Is that thousands of pounds?"

376
00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,398
But it's just a couple of quid.

377
00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,437
What, just, a picture and you get the thing

378
00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,636
and you get the ring binder
and you get the word The Office?

379
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,393
- Yeah.
- Just for a few quid?

380
00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,118
- That's brilliant.
- Amazing, isn't it?

381
00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,431
I'm sure that would go really well.
Students would love that, I imagine.

382
00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,875
You know, or people that work in offices.

383
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,397
- So, extraordinary value.
- Brilliant.

384
00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,471
- Right, thanks.
- Off you go, mate.

385
00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:33,550
See you later.

386
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,397
- All right, why did I put this on?
- That's going to show up the sweat, isn't it?

387
00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,996
- No, it's just that it's so warm.
- What, a t-shirt?

388
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,036
I mean, unless you sit there naked,

389
00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:49,555
I don't know how much cooler you can get,
you're wearing a t-shirt.

390
00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,280
And, I suspect, no pants, if I know you.

391
00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:54,351
- We're in an air-conditioned room.
- Oh, God.

392
00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,034
We're not, though, are we?
Turned off, isn't it?

393
00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,835
- Okay.
- All right.

394
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,035
Sweets.

395
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,436
- Sweet. Since when do you say sweet?
- Look.

396
00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,591
Oh, sweets.
I thought you meant "sweet" as in "bitchin'".

397
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,718
No. I saw...just noticed some sweets
and had to say it out loud!

398
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,873
- Like a child.
- Do you want one?

399
00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,189
No. Not yet.

400
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,033
- Have a sweet if you want a sweet.
- No. Just go.

401
00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:18,680
I don't want you looking at the sweets,
thinking, "I wish I could have a sweet".

402
00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,156
Extras. Is that...
There's a plane now, is that a problem?

403
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,957
This is like a scene
from Fantasy Island if I say it.

404
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,029
(FOREIGN ACCENT) The plane.

405
00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,349
Right. Okay.

406
00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,392
There's a cracking cultural reference
for anyone over 50.

407
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,275
- Good. Right?
- Oh, God.

408
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,278
Okay, getting hot now. Quick.

409
00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:42,919
- I've only got about a minute...
- Sweets.

410
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,958
Hot. Sweets. Lights. Extras.

411
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,473
Well, don't use that, Rick.

412
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,517
If you're gonna fan yourself with anything,
look at that. Look at the extra...

413
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,513
Throw away your old impromptu fans.

414
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,319
-It's brilliant.
- Only a couple of quid as well.