I love Ricky Gervais' type of uncomfortable cringe-humour, especially as the The Office (UK) I&II and Extras I&II, just as I also love funny but excruciating scenes by Lars von Trier for instance; I've even unintentionally laughed my way through Schindler's List and Awakenings in movie theatres to my wife's mortified embarrassment. However, Taping Nigel, one of the DVD-extra segments for Extras, goes too far and is just not funny. I sat watching it, feeling worse and worse, and losing more and more respect for Ricky Gervais. It's absurd but not even extreme in any sense: Ricky Gervais bullies his film editor Nigel in various humiliating ways, mostly by wrapping tape uncomfortably around his head to make him appear like a pig for instance. What makes it bad is that it is real, not fiction, and Ricky is just enjoying himself sadistically at the considerable expense of Nigel who is not enjoying it at all but puts up with it, perhaps to keep his job. I was in a good mood and wanted to think it a hoax, giving Ricky benefit of doubt, but there is no doubt. He is just a mean bully here, and it is amazing that this segment was included as extra material (and that an even worse follow-up appears as extra material for Extras II); it just makes Ricky Gervais look really bad. What amazes me most though is that people here on IMDb have rated this segment so highly - 8.1 - with hardly any protest or outrage. Is this because people admire and look up to Ricky as a director? How can this excuse anything like this? Even if people find it funny, how can they excuse it on those grounds? Would Rickey Gervais molesting a kid in a humorous way with a silly grin on his face still make people laugh? Probably (hopefully) not, so where is the empathy here? Or doesn't empathy play a part for people at all, here or in the kid example? Shame on Ricky and shame on the voters here.