CM: We're not above anything. A lot of people really don't like us any more.
Like I said to you on the phone the other day ... [explaining] because I was
mildly upset we keep getting a beating off a few people and I can't
understand why. People attack me, personally. I called Ricky and I said,
"You know, you must have had the same thing, with Extras. The Office was so
big and I bet people were down on it." And he was like, "No, we got totally
great press. Except The Mirror. And even they came round."
RG: Haha!
CM: You didn't help at all. Maybe you're just faultless. What was your favourite episode of Extras to do? Why is the Ben Stiller one not quite as good as the rest?
RG: That's a great question.
CM: Why, though?
RG: Er, well, I don't know. Urn, obviously it's nothing to do with Ben Stiller.

Didn't you switch the running order at the last minute?    .
RG: Exactly. The first episode was originally Ross Kemp. We swapped it because HBO [TV company showing Extras in the US, who deduced Stiller was a better opening sell than Kemp] swapped the order. So [on the DVD] we're putting it back to the original order: Ross Kemp, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet... [Teasing] I love that light thing, by the way [pretends to swing something around head; as in the Fix You video]. And I like it when you jump
at the end. Your little jump. You're like Bruce Foxton.
CM: Who? What, from [fashionable Londonl Surrey company] Foxtons estate agents?
RG: [Screaming with laughter] From a little group called TheJam?!
CM: Oh, right. Ha hal
RG: You know Bruce, do you? Works in Foxtons estate agents? Which one is that? Is that the one on Chalk Farm Road? Brilliant. Yeah. How is he? Is he still playing bass?
CM: Don't put that in.
RG: That's hysterical! I love that! [Doubled up] The rock'n'roll lifestyle! Oh, lovely.

Ricky, you were asked to be the butler in a remake of Magnum, PI. Do you both get offered inappropriate stuff?
RG: [To Martin] You get offered things like being in Extras.
CM: We get some weird shit, too. I mean, a threesome's always a nice offer.
RG: There's three of us.
CM: I met a guy once who said he had had a threesome. But he said it was two blokes and a girl. But to me, that would be a halfsome.
RG: A halfsome!
CM: I just wanted to say that. Can people write in and say if they agree with that? Because he's not even slightly gay. I don't see how it's a threesome. What about the gold bullion thieves who stole your identity this year, Ricky?
RG: How did you hear that? It's on the internet? Oh, OK. What happened was, some people pretended to be me, to buy gold. What they did was, they stole a passport and changed the picture. The picture they put in was me on the front cover of The Office. So it's David Brent like that [Brent pose]. And funnily enough they got caught! That would be great, wouldn't it? The bank goes, "Are you really Ricky Gervais?" and they go [does The Dance, with sound effects] and they give them the gold and they get away.
CM: What's the deal with gold? Is it actually still a valid form of currency?
RG: I don't know. Ask your mate Bruce Foxton. He keeps his hand in with stuff like that.
CM: Listen, I've never been cool and I never intend to be cool be cool because you can make mistakes like that, about Bruce Foxton, and I apologise for that. In print. I'm sorry.
RG: I think you are cool because you're not trying to be cool. There's a great thing in The Simpsons when Marge goes, "But, you know, isn't 'not being cool' cool?" and Bart and Lisa go, "No!" CM: How is that show so good for so many years?
RG: It's amazing, isn't it? Well, they're getting new great writers from overseas.
CM: And you've just written one. Your episode is based on Wife Swap, right?
CM: Who do you wife swap with? Ned [Flanders]?
RG: No, no, no ... it's me and my wife.
CM: You're in it? Like, Ricky Gervais is in it?
RG: He's called Charles. He's a David Brent  type character. And I've written a Simpsons song. It was C, F, A minor, G. There you go.
CM: [Works out chords on imaginary guitar] Nice. Do you like the [Spinal Tap] song Lick My Love Pump?
RG: Yeah, beautiful. D minor.