Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3915 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-12
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Synopsis
Ricky Gervais performs live in his stand-up show Fame, which became Britain's fastest-selling live tour at the time. Gervais discusses his fame and the resulting complications that occur.

Customer Reviews

Best Tour Yet
I saw the stand-up in March at Brighton and got a fantastic seat with my family. The atmosphere was very good in the Centre and everyone was so anticipating seeing Ricky's 3rd tour! The support act was on which did drag a little bit but nonetheless was still funny!

Ricky enters as the King of Comedy with Queen's 'One Vision' playing which is funny already! Throughout the show he touches on some boundaries but limits them so he can make a hilarious joke out of it! People complain he's too offensive to those suffering in Africa and disabled people. If so, why does he give heaps of money to charity and open his first couple of gigs with proceeds going to charity? One of my favourite parts is his encore. He talks of an incident that occured when he saw X-Factor live and what happened during a commercial break with Chris Tarrant and Sharon Osbourne.

I won't spoil anymore for you but will say that I was laughing for pretty much the whole show! And thankfully the show was longer than Politics, we got out at around 10.30pm after starting at 9pm so that was good :) Great tour, best one yet I think! Pre-order now!

*****

Dissappointing
I thought all of his past work has been excellent, this DVD is not. Lacking the depth and real observations of his last two stand up DVDs, this one relies on having a go at people who are different, or vunerable which any idiot could do. More discerning viewers could give this one a miss. I found it offensive, and bland which is not a winning combination.

I think good comedians can make us laugh and make us think about the world, and change perceptions of difficult issues for the better. This one is pandering to the mob mentalitiy and every lowest common denominator.

Hilarious, however.....
I absolutely adored the 90 minutes or so I spent in the Manchester Apollo for Ricky's third live tour, but like a fellow reviewer said he will always be an actor delivering lines and not a stand up.

Not that this is a bad thing. Even whilst watching him 'mess up' trying to do an African accent I was thinking that surely this is part of every show, but that doesn't seem to matter as he was convincing the few hundred (thousand? I dunno the capacity) that this show was a completely unique experience - just for us. The man is a first class writer and performer so uses the skills he has and give an hilarious 50 minutes or so.

Also fantastic was the (as Gervais fans will know) constantly under the cosh Robin Ince - who you get the feeling actually IS a really good stand up! Hopefully his half hour or so will be on the DVD