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		<title>Ricky Gervais in his most &#8216;postmodern&#8217; interview ever</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times April 03, 2010
- Ginny Dougary

The comedian talks about everything from relationships to body image

It started pretty badly. At one point, Ricky Gervais said it was the most difficult interview he’d ever done – and he was using “difficult” in the same way that someone says a dress is “interesting” when they mean “horrible”.

The feeling, it must be said, was mutual but, fortunately, this encounter in his anonymous-looking office, above an estate agency in Hampstead – despite 60 hellish minutes which veered between awkwardness and outright bloody-mindedness – does have a happy, if somewhat unorthodox, ending.

To be frank, I had half-expected it to be tricky. It was the control thing that worried me. I’d heard stories, possibly apocryphal, about Gervais, dissatisfied with the way a photoshoot was going, simply taking over and directing himself himself. There was in addition something about the look in his eyes – cussedness tinged with anger, a lack of trust, maybe – underneath the hectic bravado that could spell trouble.

We chitchat about the pronunciation of his name – which is French-Canadian on his father’s side – “Gervaaayze” (as in haze), although his mother, from Reading, rolled it out with a rural burr: “Gerrrrrvayze.” 


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		<title>Sandi Toksvig on her Christmas cracker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times December 05, 2009
- Ginny Dougary


The self-confessed ‘show-off’ talks about her Christmas cabaret show, politics and a crush on Cheryl Cole

<img src="http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/toksvig.jpg" alt="Sandi Toksvig" title="Sandi Toksvig"   />

Sandi Toksvig has a habit of being picked up by strange women in public conveniences, which sounds like a cheap gag but happens to be true (although not in a George Michael way, obviously). Only the other day, she was sitting in one of those cubicles where you have to push your foot against the door to keep it closed — a challenge in itself if, like her, you’re under 5ft tall — when a woman burst in, mid-flow, apologised profusely, retreated, and then reappeared, saying: “I think you’re Sandi Toksvig — can I have your autograph?”


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		<title>Omid Djalili, seriously funny</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times - March 22, 2008
- Ginny Dougary


From terrorism to spirituality, no topic is off limits for Britain's hairiest comedian.

Omid Djalili, as a British-born Iranian comedian, offers many illuminating insights into disparate strands of different cultures. Did you know, for instance, that the BBC took a view on the hirsuteness tolerance of its audience? This emerged when Omid – it surely won't be long before he becomes a one-name brand like Oprah, Delia, Madonna – was advised to move a flesh-revealing shot from the first episode of his television series to the last.


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		<title>Being Graham Norton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE TIMES - June 1, 2004
<em>Ginny Dougary</em>

Britain's naughtiest chat-show host has played his camp, cheekie-chappie card to the max. But now he's showing worrying signs of growing up. Ginny Dougary watched him dip his toe into the US market - and asked a few rude questions of her own.


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		<title>Of make-up, men and fantasies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE TIMES - February 17 2000
<em>Ginny Dougary</em>

Eddie Izzard is as famous for being a transvestite as he is for being an outstanding comedian. Despite his penchant for high heels, lipstick and dresses, women not only love him, they find him sexy, too.


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