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  The office "hilarious"
Review created: 08/07/08
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Heard from friends what a great show it was, but wasn't a fan of the office, decided to buy it for a long haul flight. Great choice was able to choose which episode we wanted to when we wanted to, great show.


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  extras series 1&2
Review created: 07/07/08
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a friend showed me a couple of episodes and I just had to buy the set. Trouble is, my friends will want to borrow it!


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  Extras series 1 & 2
Review created: 07/07/08
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Right up there with 'The Office'. Steve Merchant is fantastic as he plays a lead role alongside Ricky Garvais who is again hysterical.


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  EXTRAS - Series 1 & 2
Review created: 21/05/08
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Cannot fault it - intelligent, witty, the 'stars' send themselves up beautifully. If you haven't seen it - I suggest you do so.


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  Extras - Series 1 And 2 (DVD)
Review created: 05/05/08

Well what can you say, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Marchant together are geniuses at work. I enjoyed this series as much as the office. The celebrity appearances are a bonus.
I bought it because I didn't get to see all the episodes when it was on tele, I wasn't disappointed. It's the sort of thing you can watch over and over.


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  very funny and entertaining
Review created: 09/04/08
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this was a present for my husband on his 61st birthday, we are both delighted with dvd and so quick delivery.


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  Gervais at his best
Review created: 13/02/08
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Ricky Gervais at his very best. Funny, sad, mad and embarassing. Wasn't sure if he could top 'The Office' but this series shows how good he is. Top celebraties are shown as sad and unhappy people, cringworthingly funny. Keep up the good work Ricky
Kathy D


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  Great Series
Review created: 02/02/08
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Big fan of Ricky Gervais so this is a great follow up to The Office. Can be watched again and again.


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  Some of the funniest stuff i've ever seen!!
Review created: 01/02/08
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If you like Ricky Gervais and the office then you'll love Extras.
Its pure Genius! A must see. I haven't laughed this much in ages. And the dvd extras includes the best out takes ever. its seriously funny. trust!


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  How to get an iPhone, Wii, PS3 or 360 for nothing!
Review created: 19/01/08
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The Free iPhone Guide


To get yourself a free iPhone all you have to do is follow the 3 easy steps:

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Sign up at the link below to get your free iPhone. We recommend this free iPhone site because it's been TRIED and TESTED to work.

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Step 2 : Try an advertiser's offer
Basically all you need to do in this step is complete one of the offers, this is where the freebie site make their money, if you complete an offer then the freebie site will recieve commission for it. So if you complete Coral which will only cost you £5 to complete, the freebie site gets £25 from Coral. The two best offers are Lovefilm Free DVD rental (rent two DVD's, keep them for about 2 days, send them back and then cancel the trial) and Coral (bet £5 on a sport). I would reccommend you do Coral as it credits in an hour and is really simple to do, Lovefilm however can become complicated and takes up to 2 weeks to credit! You can also try one of the other offers, most are gambling offers. Don't skip this step! You must complete this step to get your free iPhone!

Step 3 : Refer some friends
This part is a lot easier than it seems, especially now with free iPhone sites getting so popular. There's lots of people online who want a free iPhone too, so start referring them! You only need to get a few signups before you'll be finished. You can ask your friends or your online buddies. I already got a free PS3, Wii, and XBOX Elite without even having to ask my friends for help - there's lots of people online who want a free iPhone like you! One of the easiest ways to get a referral is to do a favour for a friend and ask them to sign up in return. That way, you both can get a free iPhone!

Basic rules
Don't break these rules! This is the only reason that you won't get your free iPhone, so make sure you follow these rules!

- One account per household - don't use a public computer to sign up!
- Use real information - this is a proven legitimate site and they will not give out your information.
- Only complete each offer once! You cannot complete the same offer again, even for different freebies.
- Don't try to cheat the system. This site has been proven legitimate, and they will catch you if you try to cheat. If you do everything legitimately, by following this guide, you will get a free iPhone!

Thats all, just follow my guide and you will have your free iPhone in no time.

Thank you.


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  how to get a Wii, iPhone, PS3, 360 for nothing
Review created: 06/01/08
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The Free iPhone Guide


To get yourself a free iPhone all you have to do is follow the 3 easy steps:

Step 1 : Sign up for a free iPhone
Sign up at the link below to get your free iPhone. We recommend this free iPhone site because it's been TRIED and TESTED to work. Need more info or help?

http://Gifts.real-incentives.com/2992 (copy and paste into browser)

You can choose other prizes like free consoles from this site too! Make sure you use a real email address. Use your real details when you sign up so that the company knows where to send your iPhone! Remember that they have been proven legitimate, so will send you your free iPhone if you do everything legitimately!

Step 2 : Try an advertiser's offer
Basically all you need to do in this step is complete one of the offers, this is where the freebie site make their money, if you complete an offer then the freebie site will recieve commission for it. So if you complete Coral which will only cost you £5 to complete, the freebie site gets ��25 from Coral. The two best offers are Lovefilm Free DVD rental (rent two DVD's, keep them for about 2 days, send them back and then cancel the trial) and Coral (bet £5 on a sport). I would reccommend you do Coral as it credits in an hour and is really simple to do, Lovefilm however can become complicated and takes up to 2 weeks to credit! You can also try one of the other offers, most are gambling offers. Don't skip this step! You must complete this step to get your free iPhone!

Step 3 : Refer some friends
This part is a lot easier than it seems, especially now with free iPhone sites getting so popular. There's lots of people online who want a free iPhone too, so start referring them! You only need to get a few signups before you'll be finished. You can ask your friends or your online buddies. I already got a free PS3, Wii, and XBOX Elite without even having to ask my friends for help - there's lots of people online who want a free iPhone like you! One of the easiest ways to get a referral is to do a favour for a friend and ask them to sign up in return. That way, you both can get a free iPhone!

Basic rules
Don't break these rules! This is the only reason that you won't get your free iPhone, so make sure you follow these rules!

- One account per household - don't use a public computer to sign up!
- Use real information - this is a proven legitimate site and they will not give out your information.
- Only complete each offer once! You cannot complete the same offer again, even for different freebies.
- Don't try to cheat the system. This site has been proven legitimate, and they will catch you if you try to cheat. If you do everything legitimately, by following this guide, you will get a free iPhone!

Thats all, just follow my guide and you will have your free iPhone in no time.

Thank you.


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  Really Funny Series. The Box set has 4 Discs
Review created: 21/12/07

A few years back, Ricky Gervais created "The Office," a Dilberty satire on office work. Now, he's created "Extras," a wickedly funny satire on showbiz and acting, both seasons of which are contained here. And the fact that prominent actors appear in it -- as warped versions of themselves -- is just the icing on the comedy cake.

Andy Millman (Gervais) and Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jenson) are film extras -- Andy is embittered by his lack of success and his inept agent (Stephen Merchant, Gervais' work partner), while well-meaning Maggie merely pursues a series of crew members on the films they work in.

The first episode features the two working in a biopic directed by a brusque Ben Stiller ("Would you stop going on about your f**king dead wife?"), and Andy gets himself kicked off the set. Their blunders continue with other stars: Kate Winslet in a nun costume, who teaches Maggie how to talk dirty to her new boyfriend ("I'd love it if you stuck your Willy Wonka in between my Oompa-Loompas!"); Samuel L. Jackson, and Patrick Stewart, who is writing a movie about psychkinesis and naked women.

And in the second season, Andy gets his Big Break -- BBC2 is producing his sitcom "When the Whistle Blows," but they dumb it down until it's popular but critically lambasted. Meanwhile, he and Maggie tangle with a bunch of new celebs -- the arrogant woman-chasing Daniel Radcliffe and Orlando Bloom, self-promoting Chris Martin, a hostile David Bowie, and Andy even stars in a play of Ian McKellen's about gay love (much to his discomfort).

Part of the genius of "Extras" is that it isn't much like any other showbiz parodies -- the lead characters are on the lowest rung of acting, and the big egos are real stars making fun of themselves. Sometimes they play really nasty versions of themselves, such as Winslet saying that she's only making a Holocaust film so she can FINALLY nab an Oscar.

The other half of the comic genius is Gervais' direction, with most of the jokes based on socially awkward situations. It's all about cringing and giggling at once, such as when Andy's pals see him pantsless in Ian McKellen's dressing room. Those hideously embarrassing situations -- usually with some hilarious dialogue involving the star guests (Bowie's "little fat man/nobody's laughing" song is a gutsplitter) are what it's all about.

Gervais underplays a sort of befuddled, cynical extra, but you can really connect with his struggles, even when he gets his own sitcom. No matter what, Andy can always be depended on to jam foot in mouth, and occasionally to attack Warwick Davis. Jensen is clumsily charming as Maggie, who tries to be nice to everyone but says all the wrong things at the wrong time, when she's not being pursued by Orlando Bloom or offending Samuel Jackson.

The two seasons are "Extras" are uproariously funny, barbed looks at the strange world of showbiz, with the self-parodying actors as the final perfect touch.


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  Funnier than 'The Office'??
Review created: 05/06/07
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Missed this when it was on TV and a friend lent me a copy of the 1st series to cheer me up when I was feeling particularly down. Now I'm not pretending that even the best comedy can be a universal panacea and a bereavement remains a bereavement, but I can honestly say that I laughed out loud (a lot) while watching this, which was unexpected. When the box set came out, I had to have it.
The 1st series is very funny and (unusually) the extras were also well worth watching, particularly the one with Gervais and Merchant drunkenly trying to book Leonardo DiCaprio from a hotel room (just watch it, I don't want to give away the gags).
Series 2, however, was even funnier. Gervais' character is generally much more sympathetic here than in "The Office" - not least in comparison with the extraordinary line-up of freaks around him here and the sometimes genuine unfairness of the situations he finds himself in. He gets what seems to be a lucky break, but then his reasonable quality idea for a sit-com is dumbed down into a farcically awful catchphrase-driven racist, sexist, obvious and cheap show. Millman (Gervais' character) struggles between his artistic integrity and fulfilling his need for fame/success/validation at any price. In the end, it's no contest. There's a nice degree of tension at the end of the last episode, when Millman's feckless agent (Merchant) finally comes up with the goods and it looks like Millman may miss out as he's (finally) playing fair by his sweet and dim friend Maggie (played brilliantly by the gorgeous Ashley Jensen) and the hospitalised child he's uncomfortably been visiting. Throughout both series there is plenty to laugh at, on a number of levels. People who cringed through some of David Brent's embarrassing moments will also have plenty to cringe at here (I loved Maggie's scene when she went home with a guy and found he still lived with his parents...giving nothing more away, but watch out for it!), but the characters and situations are very different. There are some great gags, beautiful parodies, slapstick moments and some good old-fashioned filth. The show is really densely packed with great stuff, both comic and gently dramatic. I loved 'The Office' (although I'm SO fed up with seeing 'the dance' scene, which was possibly the least funny part, especially out of context), but, quite honestly, I think I laughed even more at 'Extras'. Buy it, watch it, it's brilliant and I feel quite sure it'll last. Just wish my late wife'd been here to see it with me.


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