Today's One Show features characters from Half Life 2 and Ricky Gervais

[Godwhacker]

Edit: show will appear here shortly (if you're in the UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ow_01_05_2012/

There's a segment at the start on the uncanny valley. Someone has done research that says that, essentially, you can conquer the uncanny valley by making Barney's eyebrows move up and down.

Here's the thing: Ricky Gervais is also on the programme talking about his new show, which features both him, Stephen Merchant, and that other guy talking about... stuff. But neither he nor the presenters mention that both him and Stephen Merchant have been in games. Gervais was in GTA 4 as himself, and Merchant was in Portal 2 as Wheatley.

And this is highly salient because Gervais had a realistic representation in GTA 4, where he was both creepy and unfunny, and Merchant voiced a talking sphere, where he was empathetic and hilarious. They're doing a piece on the uncanny valley and they miss the opportunity to illustrate it perfectly.

It's not the biggest journalistic fail of all time- see the Leveson enquiry for that- but it's still pretty tragic.

[Heliocentric]

Yeah, the one show, tries to make news reader types not seem like soulless automatons and fails.

Wierd really, as I am sure they must be regular people underneath.

[Lambchops]

There was this though:

[Godwhacker]

There was this though:

Matt Baker is the new Larry King.

[R-F]

And this is highly salient because Gervais had a realistic representation in GTA 4, where he was both creepy and unfunny

Isn't this just Gervais normally?

[westyfield]

Isn't this just Gervais normally?

Quoted for high truth factor.

[frightlever]

The new season (the third) of the Ricky Gervais Show. based off animated versions of their podcasts, has been poor so far. In the past Karl Pilkington was pretty funny, but it all feels forced now. Not that that would stop me watching a third season of An Idiot Abroad. I quite like Ricky Gervais' stand up humour, while acknowledging that he does come across as an arrogant prick.