I was about to come in here, sit down, and write a damning review of ‘Life’s too short’. It initially struck me as insensitive and crass, simply a vehicle for Ricky Gervais to childishly make fun at short people; and indeed part of me thinks it is just that. Yet, while I think Gervais has grown too arrogant recently, too full of himself, there is no escaping the fact that this program did make me titter. While I still think Gervais now somehow thinks of himself as the sole arbiter of humor, giving himself permission to make jokes at anyone’s expense, no matter who he offends, his shows are nevertheless endowed with a certain pathos which I cannot help but laugh at. I couldn’t help getting into it, finding myself seeing past the arrogance and childishness to the subtly beneath. I know I should hate these programs his offering tonight, in many ways, amounted to half an hour of ”laugh at the short guy” – but there were inescapable, if fleeting, moments of true humor and true wit which I couldn’t help but like.