How Ricky Gervais Made Chris Martin Funny

The new series of Extras stars this week - and Chris Martin and David Bowie are among those who’ll be humiliating themselves in it.

For those of you who still wake up screaming at the nightmarish vision of Les Dennis, naked as the day he was cuckolded, cupping his nadgers and baring his arse, brace yourselves. Extras - the superstar-sniping sarco-series that leapt sneering from the hot brain of Ricky Gervais after The Office - is back.

And this time the weekly guest stars lining up to prove they can laught at their own shallow stereotype include David Bowie and our own macrobiotic megastar Chris Martin. We cornered Ricky and co-writer Stephen Merchange to find out how they’ve turned Chris into an on-screen Axl Rose and what Bowie gets up to in his slippers.

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