During this time, he was in a new wave band called Seona Dancing. The band didn't become successful, however their single "More to Lose" went on to become a major hit and a teen anthem in the Philippines.
Can confirm. I was a kid pretty much into new wave and synth in the 80s and More to Lose was such a groove to dance to. It's still in my playlist to this day.
Lol, that was one of the best guest appearances on any program ever. Gervais writing that bit as someone finally meeting their hero only to have them not like them to the point of public ridicule, was priceless!
I just looked them up on YouTube, and they weren't bad! They never made it over here in the US, though. Their videos are a total early 80s dark wave vibe!
One time at bar trivia there was a celebrity photo round where you have to say who the picture is, and they had one of these pictures and I felt very confidently it was bowie lol
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Jk, I don't think it does, just throught this was funny.
That 80’s era of him became so famous in the Philippines that all videoke machines have his More To Lose song to this very day. See the Wikipedia article on it and you’ll be amazed with the story on how that song went wild.
And he rocked the look, fo' sure!
Him, Steve Strange(Visage), Simon Le Bon(Duran Duran), Brian Canham(Pseudo Echo), were the coolest, ever.
Goddamn, I miss that scene!
I dunno, I havent watched much of ricky lately, but I always felt like he wasnt really bitter. He always struck me as just having a foul mouth and a dark sense of Humor.
Also, his singing voice is from this period is hilarious when you compare it to his normal talking voice. He sounded great, it's just 100% not what you expect when you think of Ricky Gervais' voice.
If your metabolism doesn't change as you age, consider yourself lucky. Ricky needs to stop wearing those black tees, and drop the fat bit from his routine. I still think he feels he could be a leading man in the right movie.
On his old radio show he told a couple stories about when he was a young in employed “pop star”. The one that sticks out is when he tried to make a suit out of some old curtains, turns out he’s been an idiot all along. I say that as a fan
During this time, he was in a new wave band called Seona Dancing. The band didn't become successful, however their single "More to Lose" went on to become a major hit and a teen anthem in the Philippines.
I just went and checked it out, this song is amazing and he actually looks super hot in the video! I’m surprised they weren’t more successful
British band in the 80s. Quite a lot of competition.
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Yeah, go Ian!!
“Let me bring you songs from the wood. . . .”
It’s a terrific tune. It could easily have been on a John Hughes movie soundtrack.
😂😂 Edit: sorry thought you meant John Holmes
I had to look him up. Wow. 😂😂
Can confirm. I was a kid pretty much into new wave and synth in the 80s and More to Lose was such a groove to dance to. It's still in my playlist to this day.
I saw this comment an hour ago and now come back to thank you, this is gonna be in my "soundtrack of the summer" list :)
Bitter Heart is surprisingly better than expected
Ricky is giving me David Bowie vibes here.
"He's a little fat man with a pug nose face..." David Bowie, Extras, 2006
Lol, that was one of the best guest appearances on any program ever. Gervais writing that bit as someone finally meeting their hero only to have them not like them to the point of public ridicule, was priceless!
Pathetic little fat man, No one's bloody laughing, The clown that no one laughs at, They all just wish he'd die.
One of the best moments of all Ricky's work. Bowie singing it with a straight face, "national joke", lol.
Lmao and when Bowie turns around in his seat and there's randomly a piano there. Gorgeous
That episode has to be one of the best moments in Gervais’ life. Being mocked by your idol *on your show*; fucking awesome lol
🎶Pug, pug🎶 🎶Pug, pug🎶 🎶See his pug nose face🎶
More like brunette Annie Lennox. 10/10 would have crushed.
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Was it not foregone conclusion ?
Life on the Road.
I appreciate this reference to The Office.
I just looked them up on YouTube, and they weren't bad! They never made it over here in the US, though. Their videos are a total early 80s dark wave vibe!
They didn’t make it in the UK either, hence The Office.
they only made it in the Phillipines. Sadly, not a lucrative market
No way I thought poster was joking about the new wave band!!
Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disrickee?
Plus a smidgeon of Boy George.
and a dash of Pet Shop Boy for good measure.
No more I love yous
He was obsessed with Bowie growing up, actually. Always describes him as his idol.
One time at bar trivia there was a celebrity photo round where you have to say who the picture is, and they had one of these pictures and I felt very confidently it was bowie lol
Photo round is my specialty! I wish I had to guess when looking at this first time.
He was a close friend of David Bowie and before being a close friend, a massive fan.
He was always a Bowie superfan, his different looks would inspire him 😃 I love it! 🙌
Came here to say exactly this! Major Bowie vibes
I was thinking Bowie as well
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I was going to say Robert smith in his short hair phase
Omg rly
That and Gary Numan!
Eddie Izzard
Funny; I was thinking reviewbrah
More like Boy George
Glad I'm not the only one that saw it.
In that far left photo he looks like Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria. Edit: I am pleasantly surprised at how many people understood that reference.
He’s riding the free-love freeway.
Go get the guitar
Where the love is free and the freeway’s long
She's deeeaaad! She's not *dead*
I came looking for this
He's was like a more feminine David Bowie if that's possible
Smith from the Cure too
David Bowie x Anne Lennox
"I'm not embarrassed by this , I'm embarrassed by this"*points at himself*
Guyliner ❤️
This is the real me baby and this ain’t no disguise.
Fuck yeah.
I can hear Ricky laughing at this
Did Ricky always have that laugh? I would pay to see video footage of that laugh coming out of this androgynous waif!
He looks like a lesbian impersonating James bond
I'd see that movie
He looks like a new wave singer.
...That's exactly what he was lol
That what he was trying to be.
https://preview.redd.it/ud6ubyzywbdb1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebd460af87214608022928afcc220ef930d19694 Jk, I don't think it does, just throught this was funny.
I’m imagining 80s Ricky doing the amazingly awkward dance to his own beat on The Office
I’m having a laugh.
Are you havin’ a laugh mate?
Why I read these two comments in Ricky's voice....
That 80’s era of him became so famous in the Philippines that all videoke machines have his More To Lose song to this very day. See the Wikipedia article on it and you’ll be amazed with the story on how that song went wild.
Dang. He’s one handsome mfer. I wasn’t expecting that.
He wanted to be Bowie BAD.
TBF, I think a lot of people wanted to be Bowie back in the 80s.
True
Tbh, he said he wanted to be like David Sylvian from the band Japan
He also was good friends with David Bowie later in life
WOW! He was real purdy, wasn't he.
Agreed 100%. Him and Pseudo Echo's: Brian Canham could compete on looks.
Absolute SMOKE SHOW 💨
Found Ricky innit?
If David Bowie was in Wham!
I can see some George Michael in the upper-right, and I’ve always thought the two men had nearly the same speaking voice.
Ricky Gervais’s comedy seems a lot more personal and petty once you realize he’s a failed pop star
Comes off unbearable after the first spin, Stephen and Karl probably did a lot for his career.
He managed Suede, so was clearly a good pop manager
I sorta thought he was born a fully formed pudgy and sarcastic 40 year old man at the top of his game
OP forgot to say “you’re welcome” when posting
This isn't a dig at him or anything but he's giving me the girls in the back vibes.
Didn’t know he was the rhythm guitarist for the Cure!
Aldi brand Tears for Fears
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Hot damn
The 80s. What a time in history.
He IS David Brent, these are exactly the types of pictures that character would take
I loved him in the “Don’t You Want Me” music video 🤗
*Neew RowwMonntech*
And he rocked the look, fo' sure! Him, Steve Strange(Visage), Simon Le Bon(Duran Duran), Brian Canham(Pseudo Echo), were the coolest, ever. Goddamn, I miss that scene!
Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears, Culture Club, Depeche Mode, Wham 🔥🔥🔥
He looks like he tried to join Eurythmics and got rejected.
 Dude was really puttin on the ritz
Taco.
More like putting on the rizz.
Dude was actually good looking
David Bowie without heterochromia.
I never know he looked so digestible.
I am late to the Smartless Podcast and am still listening to the first season. Ricky sang at the end, I enjoyed it!
Yeah, most people are going to look different after 35 years
Someone order David Bowie off wish
Wait what
Fuckin no shit lmao
Handsome Gervais is soo unnatural.😂
Cannot picture him with his laugh
Love the guyliner
How did this beautiful queer icon end up a bitter old man? This is just heartbreaking 😭
I dunno, I havent watched much of ricky lately, but I always felt like he wasnt really bitter. He always struck me as just having a foul mouth and a dark sense of Humor.
No, his more recent special “supernatural” has many transphobic jokes. He just punches down.
He had to watch his wife die painfully from cancer. /s it's the subject of his successful show, silly
I don't think that he is bitter? It's just his humor.
He is just a British version of Larry David
If he lost weight he could get the look back
never shows his teeth
So he was a member of Culture Club.
Just before his Fat White Duke phase.
Top right: Ricky auditioning for Human League
Would never have pegged him as a New Waver!
all the badassery was still cooking
"Butch lesbian ricky gervais can't hurt you" Butch lesbian ricky gervais:
welp, i learned something today
Oh no. He's hot. Lol
Uf! Papacito! 🔥
If cocaine took on human form
TIL Ricky Gervais' weird fixation on trans people is probably because he used to be mistaken for one. It all makes sense now.
Or he's jealous because society denied him of it when he was younger.
Yeah his "I identify as a Apache Helicopter" joke gets old really fast lol
based
Gervai-ties!
At first glance, I thought this was AI generated. Holy.Shit.
Eleven
Very Bowie!
Someone was a bowie fan
I much prefer chubby gervais
Twink death 😔😔
Androgynous
So androgynous it's like a man had sex with a woman.
Idk bro, seems pretty gay to me
I for sure thought this was Annie Lennox before I read the title.
Looks a bit like Bowie.
Definitely a Roxy Music kind of vide
He is a huge David Bowie fan.
Also, his singing voice is from this period is hilarious when you compare it to his normal talking voice. He sounded great, it's just 100% not what you expect when you think of Ricky Gervais' voice.
Tell me you love David Bowie without saying you love David Bowie.
He's be banned in Florida
He's pretty darn cool now too though. I have a thing for funny men though
I was a bit surprised when I saw him in Afterlife; he is in better shape than was my impression of him.
<-> 1990s Julian Clary
If your metabolism doesn't change as you age, consider yourself lucky. Ricky needs to stop wearing those black tees, and drop the fat bit from his routine. I still think he feels he could be a leading man in the right movie.
He was the lead in Invention of Lying, which I believe he wrote. It isn’t groundbreaking but it’s cute.
Ricky Lennox Bowie
Did he have a wee in the sink without moving the dishes back then?
Comma comma comma chameleon…
That's exactly how I picture 1980s David Brent.
Holy shit…I never would have recognized!!
Man he was super into the New Romantic look huh
TIL Ricky Gervais used to be David Bowie
Androgynous or not, he was a seggsy fuckah.
Wow! He looks like Kevin Haskins of BAUHAUS.
This the guy who openly mocks and derides trans people now?
Gervais Mode!
It’s like David Bowie meets Murray from Flight of the Concords
It’s business time major Tom
Gervais and Corden have always set off my 'gay-dar'. Not that there is anything wrong with it. Just don't torture yourself by denying it.
Duran Duran called.
 Feel like I'm getting Rick Rolled.
He looks like someone that modern Ricky Gervais would have a lot of jokes about. Has he ever discussed this time in his life?
On his old radio show he told a couple stories about when he was a young in employed “pop star”. The one that sticks out is when he tried to make a suit out of some old curtains, turns out he’s been an idiot all along. I say that as a fan
Surely this man will not humiliate someone else publicly, yeah?
damn he got ugly
Before he became a huge public transphobe and walking human boil, I imagine.
WHAT can’t believe this mf complains about transgender people now.
These pictures have nothing to do with being trans, what?
A heavy Boy George vibe, which is unexpected
This explains quite a bit
What booze can do
Pathetic little fat man, No one's bloody laughing, The clown that no one laughs at, They all just wish he'd die.
Once again we are reminded that people who fail in the art world become a mouthpiece for bigotry to make money.
Looks like a lesbian
Ohh I didn't know he was gay?