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When you make Andy famous,

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suddenly, the excruciating,
awkward moments that he gets himself into

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suddenly seem even more embarrassing
because now the world knows who he is.

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People put a name to the face.

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- Andy!
- Andy!

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The BAFTA episode probably
illustrates that even more, you know,

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the idea that he's at this ceremony

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and he makes a little confession
about an ex-girlfriend

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that he dumped for being boring.

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<i>I'd just like to say to Andy Millman...</i>

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When she declares everything,

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in front of all the BAFTA members,
all the people in the audience,

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and, theoretically,
everyone watching at home,

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it becomes even more preposterous
and even, hopefully, funnier.

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I may be boring,

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but at least I didn't lose my virginity
when I was 28...

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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

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...to a woman who looks like
Ronnie fucking Corbett.

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Rick, can I just take a moment
to sing the praises

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of our art director, Anna Higginson,

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and our director of photography,
Martin Hawkins,

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for the excellent work they did in recreating
the BAFTA ceremony for episode four.

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That was scary, because my fear was that...

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You know when you see like,
a sketch or a sitcom

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and you have real footage of a football match
and it's Man U-Arsenal, this big crowd,

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and then it goes into the conversation
and there's four people,

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like with nice gaps, like silence.

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- So clearly not at the same location.
- Now and again they go, "Ooh!"

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So anyway, they're talking this quietly
because they can talk this quietly,

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'cause there's 60,000 people cheering.

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- We thought, "it mustn't look like that."
- It can't look phoney kind of thing.

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Because what we had to do, we had
real footage of the BAFTAs, of course,

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because we can't get a team
of a thousand extras.

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So we got the tapes of the actual ceremony,
as it was filmed for TV.

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And then when you come in tight
to little scenes at the table,

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that's all fake,
recreated months later in the studio.

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Anything, when you see a character
from Extras, is recreated.

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Are you having a laugh?
Is he having a laugh?

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Is he having a laugh?

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I think it was a real thrill for us
when Richard Briers came down,

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because he is a, sort of,
living comic treasure.

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You see, I'm old now
and they said, my friends,

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they said, "You know,
you ought to do something cutting edge."

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So they said, "What about Ricky Gervais?"
I said, "Well, he's certainly cutting edge."

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When he came down,
I just felt that it was a real honour.

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Do you know what I mean?
It was a real honour.

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People have been so impressed by me doing
this show with Ricky Gervais, I can't tell you.

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It's a bit annoying, really,

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because they seem to be more interested
in him than me.

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But it is a challenge and
one's got to keep oneself going mentally.

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Plus the fact they did tell me
there was a built-in repeat fee,

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which is always a help, you know,
when you're my age.

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And so I was happy, grateful,
and very moved to be asked.

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Are you having a laugh?
Is he having a laugh?

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(DISTORTED) Is he having a laugh?

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I found in The Office
and indeed, this series, Extras,

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that there were slight undertones of Martin in
Ever Decreasing Circles,

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who is also an impossible person.

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The man who sees himself
differently to everyone else,

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pomposity, jealousy, it was all in Martin in
Ever Decreasing Circles,

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and it was just played to perfection.

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Tacky shit!

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Ricky's embarrassment I think is wonderful,
and that's one of the great things of comedy,

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is embarrassment
and unhappiness and frustration,

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and all these lovely things
that we have to put up with daily

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are, in fact,
turned a certain way, they're funny.

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Ronnie Corbett
was a real thrill for me as well

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'cause I was a massive Two Ronnies fan,
and he just...

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I had trouble just not laughing
looking at him.

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Even when he just turned around
and went, "Hello," and I'd go...

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- 'Cause...
- He's just a funny man.

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- He's a funny man.
- He's got funny bones.

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Well, I do remember the first
conversation I had with Ricky.

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I said how thrilled I was to hear
that he was interested.

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And he said to me, "You haven't heard
what I want you to do yet."

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Ah! I thought, "Oh, what's this?"

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(SNORTING)

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- Who's that?
- Oh, hi!

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How are you doing? All right?

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Well, immediately I was game for it.

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I'm not sure my wife was. She was going,
"I wonder if that's gonna be all right."

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And I told my daughters
and they were all hysterical, so...

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And it's been lovely.

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I mean, because it's not been at all nasty,
just been a really naughty feeling.

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Really naughty boys in this lavatory.

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Which is what I've enjoyed being.

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At the age of 75,
to be a naughty boy again is quite exciting.

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Right, let me explain, okay?

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I was just in here, and I was leaving,
and he put his... That's my agent.

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Darren Lamb, nice to meet you.

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You shouldn't say your name.
Never tell them your name.

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Well, don't...

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Well, he knows who...

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The great thing is that
both Ricky and Stephen laugh.

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They know what is funny,
they know what they're after,

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and when they get it and they see it,
they enjoy it afresh.

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Who's that?

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Oh, hello.

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What are you... Sorry, are you all right?

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(BOTH SNORT)

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It's so funny! So funny!

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Having put it on paper months ago
and they see it come to life,

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they laugh and there's no greater
encouragement, really, for performing

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than to get a laugh in a small film studio.

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So it's been really quite uplifting, really.

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So, is this it? Or is there more?

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Just a bit of whizz, you know,
to blow away the cobwebs.

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(LAUGHS) I'm so sorry!

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Just a bit of whizz, you know,
to blow away the cobwebs.

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- Hand it over, Corbett.
- All right.

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Just a little whizz
to blow away the cobwebs, you know.

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(GERVAIS SNORTS)

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- I laughed at "whizz" 'cause he put an "H" in.
- Whizz.

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I laughed at whizz. Very funny.

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Of all the people we've ever worked with,

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I remember, I think,
looking forward to Chris Martin most

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because it was absurd
what we were asking him to do.

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What's this for today?

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It's for people in the Third World
who don't have clean drink...

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This screen.
Are you gonna project anything on there?

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Oh, we don't know yet. I'm not quite sure.

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Okay. Because we have an album
coming out, Greatest Hits.

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Maybe just put a picture
of the album cover on it.

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- Oh, ah...
- Just simple.

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I think, probably, if we're gonna
project anything, we'll show sort of pictures

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of people dying
because of a lack of clean water.

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Could they be holding the album?

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What's funny about playing that part
of a big rock star is that,

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you know, you actually get to be
a big rock star for a bit.

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'Cause what people don't realise is that
most of the time you're just a loser,

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no matter how many tickets you sell.

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Not a loser, but, you know, you don't
get to behave that badly all the time.

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People think of him as being quite po-faced,

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if they only know him from, you know,
the public image of him.

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And, actually, in real life he's a very funny
man, very warm, very down-to-earth.

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Genuinely nice and sweet and caring.

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(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

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- Maybe I can help?
- I don't believe it.

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-It's only Chris Martin from Coldplay.
- Hey.

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MARTIN: I'm playing the part of Chris Martin,
an international soft rock star.

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Why did I play it?

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Well, because, well...

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Otherwise I would have just
stayed at home and masturbated.

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It would have been a waste of another day.

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Okay, let's get on with this.

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I've got to do AIDS and Alzheimer's
and landmines this afternoon,

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and I want to get back for Deal or No Deal,
plus Gwyneth's making drumsticks.

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(GERVAIS CACKLING)

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That got me!

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The filming and the acting process, I think,
it'll be plain to see, is difficult for me.

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I'm promoting our new album... Fuck!

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(GERVAIS LAUGHING)

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Bollocks!

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It's hard, you know.

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Just 'cause you can boil a chicken
doesn't mean you can skin a rabbit.

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- When's that due out?
- It's due out...

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- It's due out on the 17th.
- Okay.

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I'll do it again.
Just do it from the, "When's that due out?"

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It is coming out. It is coming out.

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It was difficult, you know. I'm not an actor.

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It's funny, I got offered
a part in a film the other day,

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but I said no 'cause I can't act.

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But then Ricky Gervais called me

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and it's difficult to say no
when someone's that annoying.

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You just want to get him off the phone.

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- Chris, can I ask you a question?
- Yeah.

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Has it got such hits as
Hardest Part, Fix You, Yellow, Trouble?

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- Yes, it's got all those hits and more.
- Oh, great.

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Has it got Talk?

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- It's got Talk.
- No, not Talk! Speed of Sound?

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- It has got Speed of Sound.
- Fucking hell!

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It's the greatest greatest hits
of all fucking time.

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As Oscar Wilde so wonderfully put it,

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"We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars."

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The fact is I'm, like everybody,
an unashamed fan of Extras.

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I thought it was a brilliant piece of work,
the first series,

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and the opportunity to do a second one,

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and to get away with not actually
being completely humiliated...

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Though, I suppose like every guest actor
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you imagine there is
a parallel script underneath,

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in which one is completely trashed,
and you're given the one in which

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you sort of get away with
reasonably being a human being.

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Or that when I exit, there's some other
mutterings about me

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that I will never want to hear again.

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I was also, I have to say,
very excited to work with Stephen Fry

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because I, particularly when I was younger,
was a massive Stephen Fry fan. I remain so.

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But I can recite whole sketches.

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It was weird, as I was talking to him, I did
at one point say, "I have to just say to you,

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"'Sir is handsomely right to say so.

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"'And if two broad-shouldered, long-fingered
gentlemen such as ourselves

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"'can come independently to the conclusion

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"'that the morning we are currently
experiencing is one of a goodness,

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'"then one of a goodness
it most assuredly is."'

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Which is some dialogue
from one of his sketches...

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And Stephen Fry went, "Fuck off, you nerd."

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At least I got it out of my head.

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- Which I thought was rude of him.
- It was a little bit rude.

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I just had to get it out of my mind.
It was there.

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It was just... It was just in my brain.

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And it was like, what was I gonna do with it?