This is the maddest thing Ricky has ever said. Steve, Steve, I'm really scared, I don't know what to do.

zipher123 He said 'just say we've got to join BUPA'. BUPA is britain's leading private healthcare.

Ricky builds it up so much that the punch line had to be perfect, and it really was!

I can just imagine Karl sitting there with his mouth slightly open while he's listening to Ricky telling this story.

@chriswakefield9538

2 жыл бұрын

With his head slightly tilted.

@getajobmate1281

9 ай бұрын

Utterly gormless

Honestly, Steve's face on this picture describes this hypothetical scenario so well. Wtf Ricky, seriously, lol.

I had to pull over when I was listening to this in the podcast for the first time a few years back, it made me laugh so much

Genius lol they should of included this in the animated series

where is he

Just imagine a huge gay guy, chest hair, low haircut, earring on, sleeveless top and denim shorts going *"Where is he!?"*

"Fuck me, how can I get out of this?"

“Where is he?”

If someone can animate this, my life will be set.

bupa - they should use this in their ad campaign!

Thank you so much for this, he slurs the punchline and I hadn't been able to understand why ricky bursted with laughter :)

"We've got to join BUPA" In the UK, we have the NHS. Everyone is entitled to the same level of care. I don't know if you're American, but it's like a far better version of Obama's proposed healthcare reforms. You break your arm, you go to the emergency room and get treated and that's it. Anyway. Organ donation is done on the NHS, so the situation Rik portrays is occurring within an NHS hospital. Karl, clearly disgusted that they're letting this occur, suggested to join private healthcare.

@sammortimer9165

5 жыл бұрын

The NHS is good for emergencies but try having a long term illness and waiting 2 years for an appointment.

@domsjuk

5 жыл бұрын

@Tom Oliver....concerning "fun at parties", I just feel obliged to point out that you just responded to a 6 years old comment there. Anyway, I liked that explanation, because I didn't have a clue what Bupa is and this really is, albeit roundabout, the sort of explanation that someone like me would want to find.

@aliofly

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Oliver he’s just accurately explained the joke Tom, what’s the issue?

@ollybirkbeck8888

4 жыл бұрын

@Tom Oliver people who are not from this country won't understand the punchline.

@JohnKobaRuddy

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Mortimer it is extremely rare to wait 6 months for treatment so your two years sounds made up or even rarer

this had me in tears

So go ooruuhh, he goes oeeorrr loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool that bit will never stop being funny

You used the wrong 'your' when calling someone else an idiot, I love your ironic sense of humour :D Ricky often uses a similar sense of humour, pretending not to understand things, so I like it, thumbs up!

Now this is the weird thing...

@JohnKobaRuddy

4 жыл бұрын

It’s akin to George Carlin he spelled out a scenario where kids and elderly are dying and traffic is at a standstill and an electric storm knocks out water electrify and all power and dysentery breaks out thousands start dying in the streets rape is the least of your worries you’d be gladly lining up to be beheaded And the proceeds to say: And pretty soon things are going to start to get out of control

After all that, 'we've got to join BUPA' - lol :)

this would've been funnier if Karl had written about this as a dream in his diary

Karl is an absolute genius.

For non Brits, Bupa is a famous UK health insurance company.

Yeah, I've listened to almost everything they have done. I don't think it's scripted..msot of the time, when they bring up a story twice, they say "we've talked about this before". I think they probably decide what stories to bring up before, but the conversation itself doesn't seem to be scripted..I don't see how they could. but, I agree, it doesn't matter lol

Rik: " e' gets it out of his system so he won't go out and do it".

Great visual imagery, thats locked and loaded in the wank bank. . . . . .

OMG pissing myself!

The part nobody thought of: in this hypothetical world, Karl then has AIDS.

@christopher9600

3 жыл бұрын

But you can’t catch AIDS... Not a trick is it; education... knowledge.

@L.Drizzle

3 жыл бұрын

@@christopher9600 Oooh, you're 'ard...is it 'cause...?

I'm never going to donate organs just in case this shit happens to me - fuck that

surely they animate this

@englandscully i thought he said weve got a john booper wich is slang for blooper

@englandscully He says: 'we gotta join BUPA' (health insurer in England)

lol so ridiculous its good

This isn't on the podcast, is there any other bits not in it?

@Bullitthiphop

10 жыл бұрын

This is from "Ricky Gervais Guide to,,," series with different subjects such as medicine, society etc which is basically them asking Karl questions very loosely based around the subjects and more of a chance for Ricky to see Karl and laugh. Very good series would recommend a download from Itunes. Incase you are referring to the Ricky Gervais Show, the guide to series was used but odds and ends are not in the shows, most of it isn't noteworthy however a few good moments which either missed it because they couldn't fit in the theme of the show or subjects like this which would of probably been too much for tv.

@Asidders

10 жыл бұрын

Cheers, I actually wasn't aware of the "guide to". Mental innit.

@Lettucemon

5 жыл бұрын

Have you listened to the XFM shows? They're a lot better than the podcast and there are a lot more episodes of them as well.

I listened ... now my head hurts..... what was that all about? .....He is one seriously weird comedian....

What did Karl say at the end?

@ragingwarriors6098

7 жыл бұрын

I Do Monologues we've gotta join bupa

@mattc7191

7 жыл бұрын

Bupa, being a private health care company in the uk

Dont give thumbs up to the fucking punchline!

lol, it's almost like a bizarre role reversal here, Ricky's talking utter shit to Karl. What's going on?

We've gotta join BUPA.

Well, some of it is scripted. I've heard them tell the same stories or make the same jokes on the XFM shows years and years ago and on the different forms of podcasts.