In the span of five years, Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s creation went from a no-budget student project to the kind of thing nearly all of a randomly selected group of British adults could roar for on a summer’s day. Twenty years ago today, the doors of Wernham Hogg paper merchants in Slough opened for the first time.
It lasts all of about eight seconds, but everyone’s happy. I’ll never do this again.”Īnd, hunching, he whirls into a sort of greatest hits package of half-remembered moves: the arms pulled up with elbows at right angles, a high kick, a one-legged spin, a crouching point out into the crowd. “Okay! Okay! Oh…” Gervais giggles and cringes. Everyone would like him to do The Dance.īoos ring around Hyde Park. “Who said ‘do the dance’?”Ī huge cheer goes up. He’s halfway through a gag about voting Saskia out of Big Brother 6 when someone shouts something at him. The crowd stretches back and back and back from the edge of the Serpentine towards Marble Arch. Soon, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will welcome Ms Dynamite to the stage. Three-quarters of an hour ago, Bill Gates introduced Dido and Stereophonics to the 205,000 people who are here for Live 8. Ricky Gervais strides onto a stage in Hyde Park wearing a shapeless white tee shirt and slouchy black joggers with a grey marl stripe down the side.
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