Bowie on Gervais
Extras has been on my need-to-watch list for a while now. During season one, the episodes started filling up our TiVo queue. You know how it is.* We eventually decided Extras was a better Netflix series, the kind you bang out in a weekend. Watching this clip moved up the time frame from “the unforeseeable future” to “as soon as I can force myself to finish the wildly disappointing Clerks 2.”
*If you don’t know, it is overwhelming.
Jason English: The Website Said,
May 21, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
[...] David Bowie opened the show with “Little Fat Man,” from his legendary Extras cameo (”Chubby little loser, national joke.”) We sang along. As crowd-participation exercises go, this ranks atop my admittedly short list, one spot above doing the Tomahawk Chop at Fulton County Stadium in 1991 (I was eleven) and four-hundred places higher than any “Who’s Your Daddy, Battier?” chants in Cameron Indoor Stadium ten years later. [...]