Ricky Gervais On His University Days | Politics | Universal Comedy

Ricky Gervais talks about his time at university and the odd people he met along the way!
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[@schiiirm]

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

[@maxbrundle1599]

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]

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

[@PaulGrech-yb8fy]

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]

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

[@ReformedAgnostic]

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.

[@duuuuuuuuuuude]

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]

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

[@alanmawson9601]

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

[@Maria-kl1ik]

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]

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

[@baldrickization]

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

[@robertstraw9881]

🤣🤣

[@JeffJefferyUK]

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

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

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 😂

[@NanaBren]

I’m learning to appreciate Ricky more and more!

[@lindalanning9376]

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

[@JamesRoolvink]

Miceless!

[@daveansell8884]

Easily amused

[@WhoAmEye_WhoAreEwe]

@@daveansell8884 - easily amiced

[@hockeyguy820]

"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]

​@@hockeyguy820yes, hibernation is mostly mythology

[@elizabethmcloughlin1984]

Never stop Ricky. ❤️❤️

[@damianbutterworth2434]

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

[@happyrecluse2849]

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

[@jonathansawers7541]

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

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

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.

[@robleary3353]

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

[@barryispuzzled]

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]

*Alan Partridge Shrug*

[@barryispuzzled]

@@user-ng9gd4vl9s Why? Knowledge is power!

[@jaymart2828]

10:54 @@user-ng9gd4vl9s10:54

[@d_must4309]

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

[@catriona_drummond]

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

[@lisabrunton5781]

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

[@andysun73]

Ricky should narrate Wind & the Willows.

[@wendy70ish]

It’s Wind in the Willows 😉

[@SimonFrack]

@@wendy70ishAre you havin’ a laff?

[@wendy70ish]

@@SimonFrack .. not really

[@ADHDMartialArtsFiend-vw3fj]

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]

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

[@Mine4062]

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

[@tappym9141]

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

[@djp3525]

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

[@JoelJoel321]

​@@djp3525So?

[@janetsecrest7446]

So what’s your point?

[@tappym9141]

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

[@hybridepigenes]

Love the man. ❤❤❤

[@bulldog1066jpd]

Picture of Wolf on the wall 😂😂😂

[@FedoraDog13]

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

[@BM-jy6cb]

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]

Izzard for Labour leader

[@vivekraghuram2459]

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]

🤣

[@korwentenn3066]

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]

​@@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]

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

[@MothaLuva]

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

[@avapineda8813]

I remember that fable about the mice ha ha

[@Angela-kc5ui]

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.

[@Bob-sb7sp]

Excellent 😅

[@sarcasmo57]

That is actually how mice make their axes.

[@davidmatthews9088]

Throwing the triangle up

[@albertwestbrook4813]

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]

He wrote the episode 😉

[@paolostrada93]

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

[@albertwestbrook4813]

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

[@proddypapa7965]

ricky is the top dog at this .

[@francishughes542]

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

[@samb3783]

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

[@CHRSS111]

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

[@thailand999]

Genius

[@DragonGaming73]

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

[@Bottcherg]

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

[@mogznwaz]

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.

[@alphalunamare]

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

[@hadlerleco1]

he should tell longer stories...

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

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]

Power to the people!

[@stonkr]

Hello Foxy.

[@Brinta3]

0:23 Always check your timestamp after posting.

[@patrickglennon7058]

Fulham finest

[@neddyseagoon9601]

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.

[@FritzSchober]

Garak would be proud to listen to the last part

[@udanaathukorala559]

British humour is 😂😂

[@alexanderhardy7827]

he did the joke in 3:49 in Afterlife too

[@thomHD]

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

[@user-we2yt5on9b]

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”

[@noras.9774]

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

[@bernardkung7306]

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

[@Rilyn666]

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

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

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

[@AlunDavies-tm2lt]

Carling was never drinkable always gassy

[@mygaffer]

Thanks Garak

[@elliephant4488]

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

[@Deanriley]

Wish they’d give the dates of the performance.

[@neillynch_ecocidologist]

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]

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]

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

[@SimonFrack]

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

[@geoffpullen5117]

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

[@mturynP]

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

[@paulvato]

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

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

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

[@maxcullen3427]

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

[@MicraHakkinen]

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]

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

[@MicraHakkinen]

@@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]

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]

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

[@tonylawlor8833]

That’s comedy.

[@LeofromFreo]

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

[@jeremywilliams5107]

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

[@robertstraw9881]

Wolfy Smith

[@davideefaykerr3577]

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.

[@hew195050]

RG delivery reminds me of Eddie Izzard.

[@user-om1lu1qo3g]

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

[@user-yc9pj4dy6k]

Imagine if they got together

[@Mummaearth]

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]

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

[@milesjolly6173]

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

[@michelleobrien6996]

​@@JimOverbeckgenius eeew

[@pamelasandstrom4401]

The mouse had to have a moustache..

[@Simon_PieMan]

Wearing his big brother’s jacket!

[@asunsol]

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

[@MrBillGarland]

😊🇬🇧👍

[@soakupthesunman]

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

[@CRHG1946]

The parable of the wise and foolish virgins.

[@jamesguffogg7119]

805...

[@user-yx6fb2hj2p]

what is "bare eyes"?

[@lego4me2]

Money Loves Me.

[@McFraneth]

Che Guevara and Betty Blue posters at Uni.

[@user-sq1yy4ni9z]

HaHa

[@bigbasil1908]

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

[@hb19134]

Intrusive thoughts innit😅

[@shelbynamels973]

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.

[@canIshouldI]

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

[@geedee1264]

"Back in MY day"

[@geedee1264]

Why did you deliberately leave out the fascist part too lol

[@d4n_vids]

You’re a mug mate

[@captaindrywall]

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

[@daviebananas1735]

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

[@sabejreid2072]

Old video

[@madkeysfilms]

Jacket Sleeves are too long Ricky….image mate!

[@daphnestemmet4720]

I thought my adhd is bad

[@earthstick]

The mice R type and K type.

[@LoveEarthHereAndNow]

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

[@wisherofsnowdays]

Get a life

[@daviebananas1735]

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

[@lordlucan66]

Stuart Lee's let himself go.

[@cpharris41]

Do you mean *Stewart* Lee?

[@lordlucan66]

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

[@LB-yg2br]

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…

[@brianellinger6622]

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

[@birkinsmith88]

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.

[@Snoopydoop]

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.

[@frederickryeland313]

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]

The comedian, because he has a real job

[@milesjolly6173]

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).

[@urgiduurrgghh5842]

🥱

[@mariusbancila]

So funny he's loosing it on his own jokes. 😂

[@user-yc9pj4dy6k]

There all kings except me

[@greatguytv]

23y11m

[@paulfallon7038]

That chemist sounds like a switched-on bloke.

[@scottgregory6129]

verbal ninJa

[@markmalonson7531]

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

[@CaptainAmaziiing]

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.

[@Bluehillskatemovies]

M M

[@lmp9726]

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

[@sandramariegray7894]

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

[@sixtorodriguez1902]

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

[@michelleobrien6996]

The lazy mouse sounds very active- always running around, kicking leaves, scurrying. He's not lazy, he is "living in the moment mouse". These days we are constantly being told to live in the moment. 🤔