Funniest “Harry Potter” moment ever

We turned off our television for the summer, and after going through withdrawals that included turning up the volume on a Steve Earle album and playing air guitar around the house for entertainment, I decided to get Netflix as a television substitute. Not that dancing around the house isn’t good for us, we agreed to do it more often, but one can only play so many games of Scrabble and dance for so long before looking for mind-vacating entertainment again. 

Anyway, I’m a big fan of Ricky Gervais. I love his standup. I love the BBC’s The Office. And I love Extras, the series he did for HBO. But I didn’t catch the second season of Extras, which is a show about Ricky Gervais and a friend playing extras on film sets while not-so-secretly wanting careers as “real actors”. So, I ordered it from Netflix last week.  Each episode includes a famous actor letting down their guards on the set and saying some things you would never imagine would come out of their mouths. Well, not to give too much away, Ricky’s character Andy Millman gets a big break in the second season, and starts his own sitcom. One of the episodes includes Daniel Radcliffe, the actor that plays Harry Potter in the series of movies based on the books.

Anyway, I laughed so hard I cried over the scene with Daniel Radcliffe, Ricky Gervais, Dame Diana Rigg, and Ashley Jensen that I’m including it in this post. For Harry Potter fans, this may be blasphemous, but it makes for incredible comedy, and includes a lesson in the usage of can or may. I couldn’t ask for more. Ricky Gervais is simply brilliant!