He isnt everyones taste with humour but people forget its jokes. He is dry and offensive and thats what i like.

I was dragged kicking n screaming to even give Ricky Gervais a fair look. Don't even know why. I now keep my mouth shut and watch/listen avidly. He is epic.

"He'd have a berry...sure" 😂😂 we all knew that person

I love the way he turns things around despite the truth of the matter. He has defined to me how to deal with the slugs that come into the bathroom without a house on their back. Thanks Mr. Gervais.

Once again he had me laughing out loud, the mouse fable, priceless😂😂😂

Omg, as a french I didn't grow up with english comedians (apart from the monthy pythons, of course), and I jist discovered this guy... he is so freaking funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The lazy mouse and industrious mouse is Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper. It appears in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) and Henry Crosse's Vertue's Commonwealth (1603), amongst others. The grasshopper (lazy mouse) died in Aesop's version.

This bit reminds me SO much of Norm MacDonald's style. They both take you on a 10-minute journey that never gets boring and doesn't have a real punchline, but it's comedic genius. Ricky is a legend, and RIP Norm.

Ricky should narrate Wind & the Willows.

The mouse tale is a parable for Britain's biggest present day woes.

He went all Eddie Izzard with the mouse ramblings, love it, never seen this :)

Bril!. Tells it how it is!. 🤣 Nuff said!.

The story about the newspaper seller took me back. My first job after leaving school was in a newsagents'. I learned very quickly to come up with bland, non controversial replies to comments about whatever was in the headlines each day, and resign myself to the fact that I would probably say them 40 or 50 times before hometime.

Reminds me of me. We get free wood at work and people look at me funny taking it home in a heat wave.

I’m learning to appreciate Ricky more and more!

Though we will never likely meet- he's literally the only person on the planet I look up to and would likely care what he thinks of me. He's my one hero

Picture of Wolf on the wall 😂😂😂

Never stop Ricky. ❤️❤️

9:05 "Most the kids in my class kept that up." Steve Merchant is thinking, "They sure did, Rick. They sure did."

Ricky - you kill me! F$cking hilarious!!!

That is actually how mice make their axes.

In India, we had the grasshopper and the ant. Basically, the grasshopper was a hippie, and the ant was a middle class worker. Come winter, the ant refused to share his storage with the grasshopper, and the poor thing died. Moral of the story: don’t be generous to hippies. 😂

he should tell longer stories...

Love the man. ❤❤❤

That mouse story... Some flashes of Izzardness there.

I was at the LSE around the same time but had lots of friends at UCL. I think you were playing in a band once when I was in the bar. My friends thought you were really cool and looked a bit like David Bowie. It was the fang teeth. Around 1984.

Is Ricky a Star Trek fan? On DS9, Dr. Bashir tells the "boy who cried wolf" story and Garack, the tailor/spy gives the same "don't tell the same lie twice" moral.

who on earth thought the moral the boy who cried wolf _was not to lie???_ Surely, everyone knows it's to not repeat the same lie.

We have a principal like that. Can’t resist the sound of his own voice

Garak would be proud to listen to the last part

I'll give a gnarled laugh at that! :-)

Throwing the triangle up

Wish they’d give the dates of the performance.

0:30 I think you'd have to be British and of a certain age to get that joke... (walks off whistling the Red Flag)... FREEDOM FOR TOOTING!

Jeez, I just LOVE Ricky, he cannot be cancelled, he is just too popular, to funny, & very rich.

I remember that fable about the mice ha ha

Excellent 😅

when i was a kid i had a children story book about the same story that ricky said with two difference. one, it was hard working ant and a lazy grass hopper. and two, the hard working ant closed the door on grass hopper and he died in cold winter the best life lesson i have ever received ...

Christ you can tell how old this video is, is when Carling was somewhat drinkable 😂

I like how he used the line from this in Afterlife about the woman mugging🥲🤣

Actually, the real moral of "The Boy who cried Wolf" is that the official story gets written by the survivors.

The first time I heard the "never tell the same lie twice" explanation was many years ago from the character Garak in Deep Space 9 back in the nineties. It was fun to encounter it again but in such a different context. P.S. I'm not claiming Ricky "stole the joke" or anything, Garak was the first one I happened to hear it from, but I have no idea who was the first to come up with this interpretation.

ricky is the top dog at this .

Genius

I believe that he made his own suit from a pair of curtains.

These days, I look forward to our local annual No Che Day. ✨

In fact, it is the fable by La Fontaine: The cricket and the ant! But the ant it was not so kind!😂

Imagine if they got together

Legendary down too earth fella pls local What I used too call at time CUNTS spot on

Ricky was born in Reading UK. Like me. I understand his humour perfectly because that’s what I was raised around. We’re all funny feckers in Reading.

This is my secret weapon against negativity - I just hit play!

I Googled it. Mice don't hibernate so the story remains good 🤣🤣🤣

Not that this is bad but you can tell how much Ricky has improved and honed is skill as a stand up in the last 5-6 years

If you listen to Gervais trying to find something to be offended by, you will not be disappointed. If you open your ears and your mind you will hear some satire and sarcasm: you will see an intuitive and comedic view of the human condition and of society. He adds to this his impeccable timing and delivery which allow the audience to laugh at themselves and their world. If this is offensive to you, you are likely offended by any day of the week ending in “y”

no.... They are just the hilarious wit of a comic genius that's adapted something from life that people understand so the joke works on more levels . U won't decipher his comic genius.

"Never tell the same lie twice". Yes, now about the upcoming "coof" re-emergence...

British humour is 😂😂

This guy's good. He should go into comedy.

he did the joke in 3:49 in Afterlife too

Wearing his big brother’s jacket!

"Oh, the things I could do if I was in charge, y'know ...'

very interested in comedians who write their own stuff and how much is drawn from personal exp - old days we used to think we could relate to the dave allens of this world - especially if we were unfortunate enough to have been baptised as babies before we could 'chose' the spirit journey that we were born to experience - believer or not ~!

RG delivery reminds me of Eddie Izzard.

The parable of the wise and foolish virgins.

Seems like the 55 year old cab driver was right, after all

That’s comedy.

Thanks Garak

The mouse had to have a moustache..

Intrusive thoughts innit😅

I don't know when this came out, but he totally stole that last bit from Startrek Deep Space 9. It's what Garak tells Dr. Bashir during one of their lunches.

Che Guevara and Betty Blue posters at Uni.

Jacket Sleeves are too long Ricky….image mate!

Can someone explain to me the “bare eyes” joke? Thanks 🙏

what is "bare eyes"?

I don't find Ricky funny when he does his podcasts. But I do find him funny in his movies and when he does stand up

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3:50 The kid sounded like he on the spectrum. Mind you, there was no such thing as the autism spectrum back when Ricky was a kid. You were just a Cee U Next Tuesday.

Stuart Lee's let himself go.

Ricky: get a tailor. Your jacket is too big.

1:28 #hatespeech #hate #NoHate . Rather: #Love #Compassion #Humanity

If you were a humanities student and you were good at it, you could become a professor. If you were a humanities student and you were bad at it, you could become a stand up comedian telling jokes he heard in his first year to impressionable people. Which is better though?

The mice R type and K type.

Suit to big sleeve to long coat to long for his body. I’m a big fan

Pretty sure the grasshopper dies in the story. Also pretty sure the boy gets eaten by the wolf…and it wouldn’t matter if he told the same lie twice…

Everyone knows a 55 year old fascist, cab driver type for sure. 😂

The mouse story teaches a more realistic moral than any fairy tale I ever heard. Mice live for like 100 days, anyway, so . . .

That chemist sounds like a switched-on bloke.

And they sent karmics so they would'nt be together

Money Loves Me.

Old video

Awwww yes they all deserve to go to college except me

on and on.... im real your not....

Then the lazy mouse steal off the other mouse

Ricky and Greta the European tour. Tonight after Benny Hill.

ahh ricky, an old story with a twist, keep up the "good" work old and runnin out of etymology

HaHa

I think the moral of the crying wolf story is dob't bea compulsive liar or it will become your reputation so nobody believes anything you say even when you aren't lying.

Yeah, but if your story keeps changing, you get caught, so I have to disagree with Ricky. Once you tell a lie you have to stick with it no matter how many cameras saw me do it.

I thought my adhd is bad