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by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

I dont want to lavish too much praise on the already much lauded Gervais. But I do think his skills as a writer and director are greater than those of him as an actor / comedian. It is the writing that excells, and this script book is well worth reading. His and Merchants devastating portrayl of Les Dennis as a suicidal self-obsessed fading comedian is just pure gold.

"What about those empty seats?" he asks a half empty theatre in the middle of a panto "They're not laughing much. Whose leaving at half time? It'll be even more embarssing for those that stay" [long pause].

Dark, dark stuff that hits home because you feel the characters that most of the "stars" are playing really are a version of themselves.
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