The Best of David Bowie & Ricky Gervais Together (w/ Conan O'Brien)

Comfortable, difficult, we are heroes nearby because I think heroes should be someone who saved your life or a relative or someone who donated their kidney if it's someone you've admired for a long time and made you think that maybe they'll even change your life . I'd say it was David Bowie, right? David Bowie, you won't have any trouble, don't just say no, come on, what's the course, pick ten. I don't know, excuse me, sir. Guys, can I just tell you that you are both very big fans? I can't hear you guys love coming here thank you hello hello I was just saying I'm in a container oh yeah what are you doing?

I'm going to be a sitcom, it's called when the whistle blows, you saw it, I didn't know, is it good, nice?, just riffraff everywhere after the office, a kind of broken England, they invite you to all these things, do you want it now? Do you want to do it now? You don't want to, no, those, oh, we're going to have a talent night at the BBC, now I turned down everything, okay, and then one went through a VIP audience with David Bowie, now Bowery has been my hero for about 30 years, so I went, you know, so we went. with me in a girlfriend, yeah, it was amazing when the green room afterwards, very few there and Greg Dyke, then he comes and goes, your fan.

I know I love Howie and I didn't get to meet him. I went, no, no, but now come and meet him. God. I was walking to see Bowie, he says Salman Salman Rushdie is joining us so there's me, Greg Dyke, from a girlfriend, Salman Rushdie, we go down and meet David Bowie in our heads, okay, next time in the pub , my Mike Johnny and he says: What did you do last night? and I went, I think, Oh, what would I say? I was dating David Bowie, so I understand what you did, so I was surfing, which made me want to do a British sitcom.

You probably know my experience in serious acting before I start. The writing and singing and kind of doing the extras is really a piece of cake for me and it was fun working with Rick showing him suggestions, maybe new ways to approach comedy that I hadn't really thought about before, I think they were extras. where David Bowie of course comes in and I know he's a hero of yours, yeah I know what you're thinking is what's the worst thing that could happen to me. He walked when I had a chance, yes, David exactly and David Bowie not only. hates you but then composes a song on the spot yeah I think I've sold out to be honest with you it's hard when I was there to keep my integrity where you go for that first little third man who sold his soul the little fat man who sold his dream chubby little loser sorry little loser national joke no no no chubby little loser I didn't think he knew it was so I think someone told him afterwards and they gave him a DVD in the office and I got an unexpected email from him, it's like the FBI, just got my email, I think it's connected to the World Wide Web and it just said, I saw, I laughed, what do I do now?

And we became sort of pen pals when we arrived. He came up with the idea of ​​doing a song, he said he would do the lyrics with Stephen and I told him that would be great. I would love for that to happen and for him to do the melody. I sent him the lyrics and said done, oh. Can you give me something like a new form of life on Mars that's pretty retro? Oh yeah, I'll just leave a fast life on Mars. The voice is a little thick, yes, and I was thinking as I look at him like that, you didn't do it.

Write something where David Bowie thinks you're the

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guy in the world. You wrote to him with absolute contempt for yourself, yes, without even meaning it, with dispassionate and passionate justice, which is even worse, yes, if someone has no dog in the fight and still. Say you're horrible, yeah, you think they're cool, well that's true, then of course no, but I love getting insulted again 'cause it's plated, it doesn't hurt their words in rap, someone insults me, right ?, the rat is tickled?, right? It's real, he can't hurt me, right, he can't hurt me, so I find it funny if someone thinks he can hurt my feelings by yelling something at me.

I've won, yeah, I've won, yeah, if you keep looking like that on your face. will stay that way, that's really a big spark, isn't it? And that's the kind of thing you see so you know. I've been writing a joke that assures me they'll be in the future episode, so that's been very satisfying. This whole experience, what are you doing? It's a hobby. You play golf, not in a business meeting. Maybe you shouldn't. What I do not know. Clive. What are you doing?. I was supposed to have thought I would do well in FASTA. Put a record on get a better profile record a duty take off your wig anything you're a little old to become a pop star I'm 32 you're 37 call it 35 Big Trouble in Little China girl that's not bad jeez he He invited me to do the High Line Festival in New York, we did my first thing in New York at Madison Square Garden and I thought that since it was like a cherry it would be full of posh people in tuxedos, but of course, I said um at least if you see the things in my life, what do I do, did anything, as long as it's deliciously offensive, oh, that's cute, that's cute, right?

I like to find out that someone is normal in a way and that's really strange in the United States back in '89 and We did a show in Cincinnati during that show, I shout it, it's great to be in Cincinnati, that was a lie, so also I like the fact that they are aware of it, so their legends are like that, well, they know they know. the press is perceptual that they play with and they want to let you know that they are above, that you know that's good, you think that being a famous rock star married to a supermodel would be one of the

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things in the world.

It's just that we went to her apartment and we entered and the doorman there, well no, you're here to see the man. Jones and I were like, "Oh yeah, of course I did the scene, Mr. Jones David Bowie doesn't really exist, does he? You know it was Davy Jones, yeah, anyway, we went upstairs and then it was just made of coffee, he had just had it, it was after a little cardiac incident, yes, and he came with two cups of coffee pretending to be shaky and old, yes, no, he's ruining, he's laughing, he's making fun, this is David Bowie. , this is my hero and the apartment is like you imagine, like something out of a magazine, yes, and there was this huge, incredible statue, this work like a pewter thing, I went, that's incredible, I said who did it, oh yeah, the artist there was something he was trying to do, you know, Picasso did it with Trudy, he made it fly freely, he tried to flip it over and make the statue that was 3d, 2d, anyway, my daughter likes to hit. that with a hammer and I remember I sent them an email for their 57,458th birthday and I put happy birthday and I put 50.

Isn't it time you got a proper job? Ricky Gervais is 42 years old, the comedian he sent back. I have a proper job, David Bowie, that's cool, and I think I should talk about him as a hero before I met him because obviously for the last 10 years we were like we were kind of friends who never confused the subject because I knew him as friend and he was brilliant and I had to remember him, oh, that's my hero, he's a genius, but we barely talk about his music, he didn't write, I talk about other things, what would I like my son to know? his grandfather and I think it would be the same thing that most of my dad's fans have taken over the last 50 years.

He's always been there supporting people who think they're a little weird or a little weird, a little different. I've always been there for them, so this award is for all the cooks and all the people who make the lullabies. I somehow color my life in many ways, a working class teenager, a house of accountants on a rural estate, in reading and I mean humans. beans on toast and I see heroes, I think I was on the Marc Marc Bolan TV show and I thought, of course you can do anything, everyone sings that last line, one, two, three, he's a banana, piece of space wasted, look at his putt, there's no room.