Ricky Gervais’ new series of Extras (watch the latest episode on BBC website) is hilarious. 

Sir Ian McKellan is absolutely incredible as … himself.  (Watch out for his ‘graph’ of his method of playing Gandalf in Lord of the Rings – inspired!)  How does Ricky Gervais get such prominent people to send themselves up like that?  And how does he manage to stitch himself up so effectively the whole time?  Loved the first series, but this one is in a different league, mainly because it has such capacity to make the viewer feel so utterly uncomfortable.  I’ve watched every episode of this series either with my hand clamped over my mouth!

We already knew Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were geniuses of course, but Extras puts them in a different class entirely.

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