Extra funny

Man, I cannot believe that they’re only going to make one series of Extras.

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Guess what I did: I wrote the sentence above, then Googled ‘Extras’ to create a link, and the first thing I see on their page: ‘Extras series two in the pipeline.’ D'oh!

More: ‘This must be the least surprising news in the history of TV commissioning, but BBC TWO has ordered a second series of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Extras.’

Pfft! Like, yeah! They would be idiots not to!

Extras is easily the funniest thing I have seen on television in a donkey’s age. Whereas I never really got into The Office [yeah yeah I know, the real humour is in the cringe-factor, I know], Extras has me emitting loud guffaws throughout. And yes, I know you’re supposed to find The Office really funny if you’ve ever worked in an office – but I have worked in an office, in fact many offices [I was a temp and oh, the stories I could tell], and still I managed only to squeeze forth the occasional smile.

I’ve also worked an an extra. Back in my Toronto incarnation, after my brief stint in acting school, I went down the ‘extra’ route – even working my way up to ‘stand-in’ status for some Hollywood actress whose name I’ve completely forgotten. I’ve been on those sets and I’ve been down among the extras who only get rancid coffee and cheap donuts while the higher echelons [stand-ins, etc.] get full access to the craft service [i.e. the real food] and the bar. Incidentally, I have a theory for why all those big-budget movies cost so much – it’s because of the frigging craft service, which churns out gourmet meals and snacks continually from 6am until whenever.

But I digress from the main point of this rambling post which is that Extras is just so hilarious. Ah, those egocentric extras who will humiliate themselves for ‘a line – just a line’. Ah, those ‘real actors’ whose narcissism knows no bounds. The sleazy agent. The delusions of grandeur. Just priceless.

So anyway. We just finished watching the last episode in the first series and already I was inconsolable because I had heard that it was the very last one. But now that they’re going to make another series, I can break out the bubbly. Yow.Sa.

SO OUR WEATHER HAS BEEN UNBELIEVABLY COLD TODAY!
Temps went waaayy down to –8°C. On the upside, the sun was shining. But of course, that meant it was really cold. But on the upside, the sun was shining. Etc. The clincher came around five when AAH had to go back to school for rehearsal and I had to drive her because she refuses to wear sensible warm clothes and she might well have frozen to death. With no time to spare, we get outside and – all the locks were frozen. Whilst my next door neighbour came breezing out with her remote car lock thingy and drove away in an instant in her new car, YT gritted her teeth and used every trick in the book to get inside her eight-year old unit. That took a total of fifteen minutes, after which another five or ten went on scraping the inside of the windshield, because it was the worst kind of ice imaginable – the kind that will not let itself be removed. Anyway, after all that trouble, it was a mere seven-minute car ride to the school, and then back home again. Sunrise was at 09.46 and sunset at 17.39, and temps are currently –7°C.