S20.E18: Tom Hiddleston, Ruth Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire, Tinie Tempah

[Athena]

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On Graham's sofa are Tom Hiddleston, starring in new movie Kong: Skull Island, actress Ruth Wilson, in Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre, comedian Ricky Gervais, talking about his new stand-up tour, Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire, co-starring in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic, and Tinie Tempah, who performs Text from Your Ex.

[attica]

I love Tinie. He's so charming and sweet. That song was fun.

Totally great to see that DR clip from Extras again.  And I like how much fun Daniel seems to have seeing his time-traveling self.

That still from the show with Wilson and Hiddleston makes it (by my count) three things in which TH has been depicted, erm, kittysnacking on film. Not that I'm keeping count or anything. I'm all about sexual encouragement!

[dubbel zout]

2 hours ago, attica said:

I love Tinie. He's so charming and sweet. That song was fun.

He's adorable. He resembles his mom!

Kong: Skull Island looks deeply stupid, and not in the good way. Though Samuel L. Jackson does look like he's having fun.

2 hours ago, attica said:

And I like how much fun Daniel seems to have seeing his time-traveling self.

The resemblances are amazing.

No red chair. Boo!

[theatremouse]

I found Tinie charming his previous appearance. This one, less so.

[Bruinsfan]

Was it just me, or did it seem like Ruth Wilson wasn't particularly thrilled by either of her couchmates to her left?

[dubbel zout]

I think part of it is just her face, but it's likely she didn't find Ricky Gervais as amusing as he did.

[attica]

Me, I found it refreshing that Couch Ruth Wilson is not near so diffident and dour as The Affair Ruth Wilson. I mean, I've seen her in other stuff where she's not dour and diffident, but lately, mostly, it's been Alison on my brain.

[Bruinsfan]

6 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

I think part of it is just her face, but it's likely she didn't find Ricky Gervais as amusing as he did.

I suppose that's an impossible bar to clear.

[peeayebee]

On 3/5/2017 at 11:57 AM, dubbel zout said:

Kong: Skull Island looks deeply stupid, and not in the good way.

I agree it looks that way, but I read a tweet from a critic who said it's actually a lot of fun.

I thought this was a pretty good couch -- Ruth Wilson excepted -- but there was too much cross-talk, mainly from Ricky and Tinie. Still, it was good. I loved Ricky's tweets & pics about his girlfriend. Really funny. 

I wish Daniel would learn to slow down when he speaks. I love him, but he goes too fast. 

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Was it just me, or did it seem like Ruth Wilson wasn't particularly thrilled by either of her couchmates to her left?

I caught that too. When Gervais was talking she just kept looking at Graham. 

I like Tinie but the woman doing the singing on his song was awful. So off-key.

[maraleia]

Daniel has lived in NYC for tool long now and it's made his speech speed up. I don't think it will ever change.

[attica]

14 hours ago, maraleia said:

Daniel has lived in NYC for tool long now and it's made his speech speed up.

Hee. I read peeayebee's comment and I was all 'I don't think he speaks all that quickly.' And then I remembered that I live in NYC. :) I'll be on the phone with clients and they get all "Are you in a rush to get somewhere?" and I'm all 'Notatallit'sjustanormalTuesdayhowcanIhelpyou!' 

Edited March 8, 2017 by attica

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@attica - I'm the same: I don't think Radcliffe speaks all that quickly, and I'm in NYC.  I also lived a long time in Ireland and the Irish can speak quickly (which I also don't notice) for some non-Irish ears.

I thought it was funny that Tinie Tempah was on the same episode as Radcliffe: I seem to remember this: TT's last episode (that I saw) was with Miranda Hart and MH tired on TT's glasses and she became Daniel Radcliffe.

I know that Gervais's thing is to be all casual, but something bugged me about how he was dressed, compared with the other (non-rapper) guests.  I guess I can "let go" (as if it's my place to do so) his t-shirt, but the muck on his shoe?  If you've got muck on your shoe, please to keep it away from -a- other people, and -b- other peoples' drinks.  

[dubbel zout]

Isn't proudly not caring about social niceties Gervais's schtick? All that seemed entirely in character, and that's one of the reasons I can't entirely like him. 

[fastiller]

Just now, dubbel zout said:

Isn't proudly not caring about social niceties Gervais's schtick? All that seemed entirely in character, and that's one of the reasons I can't entirely like him. 

That's kind of what I meant.  But mucky shoes near my drink goes beyond social niceties and starts to get into yucky territory.  Don't get your muck into my drink please!