Ricky Gervais / Golden Globes

I was so pleased to see Gervais kick off with a boot into that idiot wanker Steve Carell who delivered such piss-poor performance as the office manager in the doomed American version of The Office.

If ever there was a doomer that wouldn't make the journey over the Atlantic, this was it.

Think Goon Show being picked up by the Yanks.

Think Python or Alan Bennett

Alf Garnett - oh yeh, they did manage to fuck that one up.

Steptoe? Avengers?

You get my drift

I was in the States when the Merkan version came out and it was grim.

I would cook myself a really good Japanese dish:

Sushi

Onigiri

Kare Raisu

Chazuke

Kayu

One of the standards, and uncork a respectable sake:

Kubota Junmai

Hakkaisan Junmai Ginjo

Pride of Miyagi, a flagon of Uragasumi Junmai

Masumi　Junmai Okudenkanzukuri

You get my drift, the Nihonshu champs

Then I'd get to drunken work putting the bovver boot in:

Take that!

Wet

Feeble

American roobish

Surpassing badness

I can't even remember which post it was in which I mentioned the lucrative invite to slam the prog for a wider public. As i recall, I got paid but the review never actually appeared.

I think I was too accurate in my barbs about that Carell creature and the mag had pulled some advertising. Whatever.

The only bit I remember is mentioning that Jenna Fischer who played the American Dawn was a bit of all right.

Oh, and wasn't the theme tune of the Brit version wonderful? I mean, talk about humiliation - the idiot American travesty couldn't even get itself a decent ditty?