Ricky gervais on "the office" counterpart steve carell (2012)

Should we play what Steve Carell said about you? Yes, please. Because I rather enjoy the fact that you're slightly uncomfortable because you've no idea what he said. He's a lovely man. I can't believe he'd say anything bad about me. He didn't feel the same way. Let's play this. Could you do what Ricky does? Oh, not in a million years. Why? Um, I think I would just get too skittish. I play a Ricky Gervais character, perhaps, but to actually go in front of people and offend them to their faces. I don't think I I necessarily. It doesn't mean that I'm a better person. It just means that I certainly don't have that kind of guts. He it's funny. He always makes fun of me. Always. And he he's he's also, you know, in a personal way, very, very sweet to me. Like before one of these awards shows, he pulled me aside and said, hey, I've got a few things that I wanted to go after you with. Is that OK? And I'm like, of course. So he's there is a side. There is a gentler side to him that people don't necessarily see. So you're all hot, aren't you? No, it's lovely. He's such a lovely man, though. But he thinks you're sweet because just to clarify, you go up to him before an award ceremony and say, I'm going to call you a prick in a minute just to warn you. I told him what I was going to say. You know, if I had access to them, I'd warn everyone. You know, as I said, I don't want to drive a bad day. You know, it's not it's not I've got nothing against people. You know, it's great. He's fantastic. He's not only brilliant, but he's one of the loveliest people in Hollywood, untouched by a family man. Nice, honest, hardest working guy. I mean, I don't know how he does it. Yeah, I've got nothing but he said to me, he's got one. It's a great interview. We're going to run it very soon. But he's got one of those heads. That's just funny. He's good because you know why? He's got he's nearly handsome. He's got that. He's he's got he's he's he's like Bob Hope. If you look at him, he's chiseled. He's great. But he's got something. He's got beady eyes. He's good. I like him. That was a compliment, by the way. He's very handsome. I mean, he's comedically handsome. He's not imposing. He's not he's not bland. He's why are we going on about how good looking Steve Carell is? What am I, chopped liver?