CollegeHumor: Ricky Gervais Stuff This Month http://www.collegehumor.com http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1790513 The Invention of Lying Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0400 http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1790513 <table border=0 width="360px"> <tr> <td colspan=2> Do you ever have one of those days where things are just going right?  One of those days where you wake up early, jump in an idling towncar to be driven to the Delta shuttle to Boston, land at Logan, hop in a van, get out at a film set, interview Jennifer Garner, Ricky Gervais and Rob Lowe, jump back in a van, go to Logan and fly back to New York?  No? Well, one day last year Warner Brother's somehow got ahold of my name and invited me up to the set of The Invention of Lying, due out on October 2nd.  

I had never been to a film set before, let alone a set run by my comedy hero (sorry, Jennifer, I'm speaking about Ricky Gervais).  The Invention of Lying, at that point called This Side of the Truth, was a bit of a mystery.  I had heard rumblings online about this film, written, directed and starring Gervais (also written and directed by Matthew Robinson, who I'll get to later).  A quick peek at IMDB before I left sent shivers down my spine.  Listed in the cast (in addition to Lowe, Garner and Gervais): Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Jeffery Tambor, Jason Bateman, Louis C.K., John Hodgman, Patrick Stewart, Martin Starr and Christopher Guest.  I didn't know who would be on set that day but odds were that whoever it was would be A) very famous, B) extremely funny and C) super intimidating.  

I am not a journalist but luckily Edward Douglas, of ComingSoon.net, was there with me to ask all the important questions and teach me how to behave on set.  However, the moment we stepped foot on location - a ritzy private school in Lowell, Massachusetts where George W. Bush had been "educated" - things were a little different.  I had expected to be kept in some sort of holding area and instructed to go speak to certain people at certain times.  Instead, and possibly because it was just Edward and me, we were told by the publicist to "grab whoever" for interviews "whenever you want."  Talking to Jennifer Garner is intimidating enough in a sterile, controlled environment, but just strolling up unannounced and sticking a tape recorder in her face was something altogether different. 
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