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Interview with Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais, famous British comedian, creator of The Office and son of a Franco-Ontarian, is interviewed for Quick Stop Entertainment.

GERVAIS: Are Americans more hated than English people now in the world, do you think?

QS: I think that the tenor of conversation if you identify yourself as American is different, yes.

GERVAIS: Wow. All I can say is thank god for the French. (laughing)

QS: The only thing worse than the French are the French Canadians.

GERVAIS: I’m half French Canadian, so I’m in trouble there.

QS: Well it’s only half, so you’ve somehow diluted it out. No, the pure French Canadians are the ones that manage to take the ego of the French and multiply it.

GERVAIS: And put it in a much bigger country! (laughing)

QS: Literally, it’s a sad little world to enter into. Have you ever been back to Quebec?

GERVAIS: No, I’ve only been to Vancouver for three days, with Mr. Stiller. This sums up my first Hollywood film… They flew me and my girlfriend over. First class. Put us up in the best hotel in Vancouver. Went to the set. There, I’m in this huge trailer. Ridiculous. [...]

QS: That’s a problem I could get used to.

GERVAIS: That’s the problem with us English. We walk into a trailer and we go, “Oh my god, all this for me? I’m embarrassed. This is terrible.”

QS: The great difference, if you go to France as an English speaker, is they’ll look down at you because they don’t deign to learn English.

GERVAIS: Well, why should they?

QS: The French Canadians, though - they know English, and they refuse to speak it.

GERVAIS: They did learn it, that’s the difference. English people didn’t even learn it - we just think “No, no - they can learn it. (laughing)