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

@maxbrundle1599

3 ай бұрын

Not afraid to be right on the edge of funny and offensive. I'm offended he didn't make fun of my disabled paraplegic black Muslim demographic 😂 how dare you!

@Rasarel

Ай бұрын

Billionaires pushing us into driving cars is 100% more offensive than anything he will ever say...

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.

@yeetyeet7070

4 ай бұрын

all his old stuff is pretty good, but have you seen Jim Jeffries?

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.

@schiiirm

4 ай бұрын

Sort of satirical but there is some truth and opinion in some of his jokes. Not all obviously

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

@robertstraw9881

8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@JeffJefferyUK

8 ай бұрын

I love the way Ricky had no idea it would get that much of a laugh

@phoenix-xu9xj

6 ай бұрын

Berets were part of my school uniform 🙄. In the 60’s. A grammar school. I hated it but now I think it would be really cool 😂

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

@JamesRoolvink

8 ай бұрын

Miceless!

@daveansell8884

8 ай бұрын

Easily amused

@WhoAmEye_WhoAreEwe

8 ай бұрын

@@daveansell8884 - easily amiced

@hockeyguy820

8 ай бұрын

"Whether in the wild or inside a house, mice do not hibernate during cold seasons. They spend the winter actively foraging for food, seeking shelter, and if outdoors, avoiding predators. Outdoors, these rodents burrow into the ground to rest or bear their young."

@waltdixknee2645

7 ай бұрын

​@@hockeyguy820yes, hibernation is mostly mythology

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 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@booradley0x0

4 ай бұрын

Yay!! You should watch Eddie Izzards stand up- I think he does it in English and French- it’s HILARIOUS 🇫🇷

@alanmawson9601

3 ай бұрын

@@booradley0x0 Izzard funny, stop with the meth already!

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.

@user-ng9gd4vl9s

8 ай бұрын

*Alan Partridge Shrug*

@barryispuzzled

8 ай бұрын

@@user-ng9gd4vl9s Why? Knowledge is power!

@jaymart2828

8 ай бұрын

10:54 @@user-ng9gd4vl9s10:54

@d_must4309

7 ай бұрын

"The Boy who cried Wolf" is also an Aesop fable

@catriona_drummond

3 ай бұрын

and the "never tell the same lie twice"-morale of it is from Start Trek Deep Space nine, the Cardassian tailor said it. :P

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.

@wendy70ish

8 ай бұрын

It’s Wind in the Willows 😉

@SimonFrack

8 ай бұрын

@@wendy70ishAre you havin’ a laff?

@wendy70ish

8 ай бұрын

@@SimonFrack .. not really

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

@djp3525

8 ай бұрын

I just read that the #1 baby name in the UK for boys in 2023 is Mohammed.

@JoelJoel321

8 ай бұрын

​@@djp3525So?

@janetsecrest7446

4 ай бұрын

So what’s your point?

@tappym9141

4 ай бұрын

@@janetsecrest7446 Hint: leeches, freeloaders, parasites, pi$$ takers, scroungers, increasing internal threat, dangerous religeous radicals, spongers, bloodsuckers etc., etc.. All on the take.

I’m learning to appreciate Ricky more and more!

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

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

@happyrecluse2849

Ай бұрын

Just don't tell em you've got a berry tree in the yard back home...

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.

Never stop Ricky. ❤️❤️

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

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

Picture of Wolf on the wall 😂😂😂

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

@jasonhiggins6431

7 ай бұрын

Agreed , I love to go for a long walk with him and not talk just listening

That is actually how mice make their axes.

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.

@jurgenmathiae6682

8 ай бұрын

He wrote the episode 😉

@paolostrada93

8 ай бұрын

There's a reference to Mr Spock in The Office, so quite possibly.

@albertwestbrook4813

8 ай бұрын

Ricky Gervais is not listed as having any story or writing credits on Deep Space Nine.@@jurgenmathiae6682

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

@BM-jy6cb

8 ай бұрын

You know what, I was thinking this isn't up to his usual standard and the digressions were a bit cringey, You've nailed it. Izzard was occasionally funny a long long time ago, but the digressions routine quickly got predictable and boring.

@mezzoca8110

3 ай бұрын

Izzard for Labour leader

Love the man. ❤❤❤

he should tell longer stories...

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

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. 😂

@cman3264

8 ай бұрын

🤣

@korwentenn3066

8 ай бұрын

In France we have exactly the same story! From the famous fable that every child learn in school: "The grasshooper, having sung all summer, found itself deprived when the northern wind came ..." The poem ends with: " You sang? Marvelous. Well, dance now!" Crazy how countries far apart come up with the same images for tales

@nikosnikou7084

8 ай бұрын

​@@korwentenn3066 Not crazy at all, it's one of the most well know Aesop's fables: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper#Fable_and_counter-fable Even if that wasn't the case we share a lot of prehistory, you can take a look here to get a glimpse into that aspect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language

@vincecallagher7636

8 ай бұрын

The grasshopper was an entertainer if I remember, so Ricky would t make it.

@MothaLuva

8 ай бұрын

We had the same story in Serbia. It ended with the grasshopper slashing the ants throat with a dagger.

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.

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

@samb3783

7 ай бұрын

No one gets cancelled, think about it. Who's actually cancelling anyone?

@CHRSS111

7 ай бұрын

@@samb3783 Well, thankfully, all that bullshit is becoming less hip!

Throwing the triangle up

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

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.

@sg145

8 ай бұрын

Yes that is exactly what it means, you lie (cry wolf) being believed until that one time you are not lying and no one believes you. Moral of the story, do not begin with a lie in the first place.

@nazirkazi2588

8 ай бұрын

You're both correct. I'm an Emeritus Professor of Lieology (Yes, Oxford) and I should know.

@SimonFrack

8 ай бұрын

@@nazirkazi2588The question is whether we would trust a professor of lieology.

@geoffpullen5117

7 ай бұрын

1:59 2:02 2:02 2:04

@mturynP

7 ай бұрын

"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"'s 'Garak' drew exactly the same moral, c.1994….

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!

@jimdeadlock

8 ай бұрын

Power to the people!

@stonkr

8 ай бұрын

Hello Foxy.

@Brinta3

8 ай бұрын

0:23 Always check your timestamp after posting.

@patrickglennon7058

7 ай бұрын

Fulham finest

@neddyseagoon9601

7 ай бұрын

My girlfriend's brother was the template for Wolfy Smith. Every single threat he used like, " come the glorious day citizen, you'll be first against the wall", was in his repertoire. He even put people's names and addresses in his little book for future retribution. He wore a beret with a commie star and the combat jacket too.

Excellent 😅

I remember that fable about the mice ha ha

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

Garak would be proud to listen to the last part

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

@zacmumblethunder7466

7 ай бұрын

Yet new enough for nobody in the audience to have heard of Peter Ustinov.

@AlunDavies-tm2lt

5 ай бұрын

Carling was never drinkable always gassy

Wish they’d give the dates of the performance.

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

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

Genius

ricky is the top dog at this .

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

@jeremywilliams5107

8 ай бұрын

If you had it at night, would it be the No Che Noche?

@robertstraw9881

8 ай бұрын

Wolfy Smith

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

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

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

Imagine if they got together

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

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.

@Primalxbeast

7 ай бұрын

It was funnier coming from Garak because he was serious. He was a master at telling lies.

@MicraHakkinen

7 ай бұрын

@@PrimalxbeastIt's one of the reasons his character is (and remains) so interesting I think, though certainly not the only reason. Just when you think you've figured him out to some extent, he blindsides you with something that casts doubt on everything you think you know about him. It's amazing how often he can give you the feeling of being set back to square 1 in the game of "Who is Garak?".

@pajaf0341

4 ай бұрын

Wanted to give credit to Garak/DS9 for the last pun, too, but you already did in a most gracious manner, wich I respect and support.

@MicraHakkinen

4 ай бұрын

@@pajaf0341Thank you for your kind comment and I wish you a happy 2024!

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

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.

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”

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

British humour is 😂😂

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.

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

Wearing his big brother’s jacket!

he did the joke in 3:49 in Afterlife too

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

Thanks Garak

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 ~!

@JimOverbeckgenius

7 ай бұрын

He's a comedian!? Gervais is French slang for penile smegma, so Dereck KnobCheese it is then.

@milesjolly6173

6 ай бұрын

He’s funny, I don’t care what his name means.

@michelleobrien6996

4 ай бұрын

​@@JimOverbeckgenius eeew

RG delivery reminds me of Eddie Izzard.

That’s comedy.

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

@geedee1264

7 ай бұрын

"Back in MY day"

@geedee1264

7 ай бұрын

Why did you deliberately leave out the fascist part too lol

@d4n_vids

7 ай бұрын

You’re a mug mate

The mouse had to have a moustache..

Intrusive thoughts innit😅

The parable of the wise and foolish virgins.

what is "bare eyes"?

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

Che Guevara and Betty Blue posters at Uni.

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.

Jacket Sleeves are too long Ricky….image mate!

The mice R type and K type.

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

@daviebananas1735

8 ай бұрын

I must introduce you to my friend, the word too. You will get along well.

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

@sandramariegray7894

7 ай бұрын

Seriously, get a life mate. The cost of living crisis, it has to last a long time.

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…

Old video

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

@Slaeowulf

8 ай бұрын

So original.

@Kannpass

7 ай бұрын

@@Slaeowulf Obviously it's Ricky himself disguised as movieblues4614.

@valentinbuda4202

6 ай бұрын

Yes, but he needs a lot more practice...

@Mo-mc3mw

6 ай бұрын

Hahahhahaggagag

Stuart Lee's let himself go.

@cpharris41

4 ай бұрын

Do you mean *Stewart* Lee?

@lordlucan66

4 ай бұрын

@@cpharris41 after remedial English an an early 80s comprehensive school it's a wonder I'm able to even log on to the KZread.

805...

Money Loves Me.

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?

@t.c.4321

7 ай бұрын

The comedian, because he has a real job

@milesjolly6173

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Plus he gets to go all over the world making people laugh (probably one of the most satisfying feelings of all) AND he never has to do any marking (or “grading” for any Americans who read this).

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

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.

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

That chemist sounds like a switched-on bloke.

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.

And they sent karmics so they would'nt be together

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

@wisherofsnowdays

8 ай бұрын

Get a life

@daviebananas1735

8 ай бұрын

Stop finding issues to complain about that no one else sees.

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

@SuperSky9

8 ай бұрын

You mean more realistic recent Disney remakes.

@markfox1545

8 ай бұрын

Like 100 days? Not 100 days but similar?

@scscarbo-ou6qg

8 ай бұрын

My pet mice lived about 2 years… so in ideal conditions they live much longer than 100 days… 😂

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

😊🇬🇧👍

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

Awwww yes they all deserve to go to college except me

HaHa

Then the lazy mouse steal off the other mouse

@crconway7926

8 ай бұрын

only if the industrious mouse is unarmed

I thought my adhd is bad

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

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.

🥱