Kittens of Distinction
Ricky Gervais has a new comedy series out. YES! It's called Alley Cats. It's on Netflix. It's a cartoon about talking cats swearing and being profound and then swearing again. I don't have Netflix - and it is possible not to have Netflix - so I won't be tuning in. But I have seen a clip and, if I'm honest...it's not for me. The bit I saw was a little crude. I don't mean the language. I'm not scared of a bit of effing and jeffing. I mean crude in the sense it was made in a very simple or unskilled way, something moulded clumsily, that's loose, approximate, and rudely constructed. Gervais' comedy in Alley Cats seems effortless only in the sense that he makes very little effort. It sounds like he booked a recording studio, got a load of his top comedy pals in and recorded them talking bollocks to each other in 20 minute bursts. But, like I say, I haven't seen the series, just a couple of clips. Maybe viewed in its totality the series tur...
