Meet Andy Millman, actor. Never forgets his lines because he never gets any. With an agent who works part-time at Carphone Warehouse, sometimes you have to take a small role on the path to fame. And small means not speaking and wearing a Nazi uniform for six hours. Welcome to the world of Extras, the hilarious HBO series from the brilliant team that gave us The Office. Starring the incomparable Ricky Gervais, as well as celebrity guests like Kate Winslet, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ben Stiller, Extras is "the sharpest, funniest new show this year." (Matt Groening, The Simpsons) Extras--The Series One and Two will be published the day after the final episode airs, which promises a surprise denouement.
Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and broadcaster.
Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. Gervais has performed on three sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast prior to March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show.
He has accumulated a multitude of awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, four British Comedy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Emmy Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2010 he was voted third greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Channel 4, behind Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly. In 2010, he was named on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
Transcripts of every episode with very very little by the way of (pardon me) extras - short forward and some pleasantly candid pictures of the cast and guest stars. Still, the show is undoubtedly hilarious and reading the dialogue let's it shine in a new light. You already know if you'll like this, but you might not already own so many color pictures of Stephen Merchant, so it could be worth the price.
This is a collection of TRANSCRIPTS. It is each episode, word-for-word. If you enjoy reading original scripts, or even shooting scripts -- then this is not what you're looking for. If you prefer reading plays instead of seeing them, then this IS what you're looking for.
That said, it's hard to rate something so funny poorly; and this "illustrated" edition has plenty of behind the scenes photographs that fans will enjoy.