When Your Mom Ricky Gervaises Around The House, She REALLY Ricky Gervaises Around The House

In the run up to this weekend's Ricky Gervais stand up special on HBO, Out of England, there was a subway ad that featured him wearing a crown and a cape. Now, I didn't want to say anything because I figured we had to wait and see what happened in the actual special, but something in the ads seemed off, to say the least.

Well, the special has aired, and now I know that I was not mistaken.

Not to get too jezebelgum or anything, but let's face facts here. We've all seen The Office (UK) and Extras and countless late night interview segments, and there's one thing that all of those had in common that's different from the poster for Gervais's stand up special, because at the end of the day, this:

does not look like this:

SCANDAL!

The thing is, Ricky Gervais isn't even "fat," he's just overweight. So this heavy use of the Photoshop "Skinny" filter seems excessive. Besides, it's specifically Gervais's sympathetic body type that allows him to go on extended riffs like this:

Anyway, this is going to be really huge. Totally blew it wide open. Delahaydge siren all over this one, guys.

Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in Everyone's A Critic, Justice
Tags: Delahaydge Siren | Health | Out Of England | Photoshop | Ricky Gervais

10 Comments

Ugh, photoshoppers continue to be the worst, turning normal looking people into strange smooth alien creatures.

Posted by: y at 11/17/08 3:31 PM | Reply
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I absolutely love The Office, Extras, the podcasts, etc. But the stand-up show wasn't my cup of tea...

Posted by: Katie at 11/17/08 3:49 PM | Reply
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Why? Are you 1000 pounds or an egg?

Posted by: bingo gas station at 11/17/08 4:06 PM | Reply
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He looks fat in both pictures. Seriously, guys?

Posted by: jimmy fatts at 11/17/08 4:18 PM | Reply
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The internet didn't have any higher resolution images of the poster, but his arms, chest, and stomach all have a lot more definition than they should. SCANDAL!

Posted by: Gabe  in reply to jimmy fatts's comment at 11/17/08 4:31 PM | Reply
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There should be a Videogum dictionary and "jezebelgum" should be added to it.

Posted by: Darren87 at 11/17/08 4:56 PM | Reply
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I was thinking the same thing, but about his face. They actually made him look somewhat attractive, when irl he is wonderfully ugly (and he knows/uses it).

Posted by: Punky Brewster at 11/18/08 2:30 AM | Reply
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Isn't the bit he did in GTA4

Posted by: Jono at 11/18/08 3:24 AM | Reply
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i agree with kate. stand up doesnt suit his comedy

Posted by: matt at 11/18/08 2:30 PM | Reply
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His face is scaring me more.

Posted by: Niamh at 11/18/08 3:19 PM | Reply
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