Ricky Gervais On Protests | Politics | Universal Comedy

[@johnmcguire1792]

I love when comedians get involed

[@Adbasch]

Do you hear the „siuuu“ at 1:26.

[@Krektonix]

loll

[@chrislandis6873]

omg -- he is fuckin hysterical

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Fill yr boots m8 😅😅

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

I liked the way he excluded Dylan.

[@ivareskesner2019]

The English version of this would be to politely ask, get told no, then leave, sit on it for three days, get angry and yell at the dog. At least the fella had balls...crispy balls, but large ones, I'm sure.

[@Mike53431]

Hilarious

[@JACK_TheAllSeeingEye]

I, and other members of my family, were watching the 6 o'clock news in Canada in 1977. I was 17. They reported that Nelson Mandela had died in prison.

[@2040Honeydew]

I have lived in South Africa between 1974 and 1979. In 1977 Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island. However, anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in 1977 while in police custody.

[@Senjinone]

Nope.

[@chrisso1029]

@@2040Honeydewyep, that’s what happened. It’s bizarre how people would rather believe there’s a conspiracy to change history- or even that there’s some mystical force altering reality- than the fallibility of their own memory in recalling an event half a century earlier.

[@ondroed69]

Just realised that he looks a bit like johnny burkhardt

[@AmericaNeedsHeros]

comedy is good for us all. some jokes i may not like but you and i have to understand others may like them. so get over it and move on.

[@louisfivaz1367]

On top of becoming a Pres. Mandela got a second chance, the people he bombed in his youth never did.

[@MikeGervasi]

Rick, ffs..it was a BED in, not a SLEEP in.

[@joelwgraves]

We didn’t start the fire was not written as a war protest song. Joel was inspired to write it when he was 40 and he heard a 21 year old complaining about being 21 in the present day. Joel compared that sentiment to the state of the world when he himself had been 21.

[@victorgrainger895]

Oh really ? How boring !

[@MrSailingHU]

You really enjoy comedy, don't you?

[@qatestbrian1]

Good points but harder to make into a joke. Where did you hear that? When we're young we always think we have it harder than all the generations before. Then when we get older we may or may not I suppose, realize that here in the west previous generations have made our lives easier. This isn't funny either is it?

[@Cape-Dweller]

Tim Curry did it much better and without Joel’s typical arrogance

[@Malt454]

It's a fair point; it's simply not a protest song, whether anyone thinks it is or Gervais' comments about it are funny or not. Comedy is funniest when it's honestly on-point, and not trying to make facts fit farce.

[@VinhTran-lj3hn]

Except the monk incident actually brought down the South Vietnam Gorvement at the time, Diem and his brother get assassinated so the joke is not 100% accurate

[@samlos354]

It is a joke

[@justicevanpool9025]

​@@samlos354 he tries to "teach" us something that is only funny if you don't know the truth.

[@georgesam363]

The French owned Africa, mostly, not the Brits.

[@harrymorgan5902]

Well…..

[@ph8077]

About equal actually...but it was a throwaway line in a joke, not a history lesson!

[@georgesam363]

@@ph8077 Don't MESS with Trolls man just saying... They'll TROLL you

[@rickbrind9221]

No they didn't you obviously have no idea about the subject. Anyway Rick is making a joke no giving you a lesson on any empire British of French.

[@georgesam363]

@@rickbrind9221 OK Child... here's what I'm seeing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonisation_of_Africa And jokes are better if they're based on reality/facts.

[@Bosnian.Spartan]

Gotta learn to cut clips shorter and stop with the cliffhangers

[@edda682]

Where are you performing next?

[@Bosnian.Spartan]

@@edda682 wdym

[@vitkaodessit]

BS

[@gmc2652]

he misssed the point

[@ryanfletcher1899]

This is a comedy performance, you missed the point

[@beecee2205]

@@ryanfletcher1899 if the point was "I am useless compared with Carlin" we all got the point, and as great comedy it really worked. sad

[@gregcarlson6012]

4:04 hello? yes hello, it's Africa. What do you want? smash cut to 2024

[@PaoloMarinelli-sl2xu]

Sure😂! All autoritharians don't have a culture of thinking and expressing the own opinions. Then they said the hystory that "who thinks won't work", but this is ridiculus.

[@PaoloMarinelli-sl2xu]

Think

[@daudder]

Funny as it is, but it misses the point about selflessness...but I guess that what makes it funny...and sad.

[@joefrench1353]

Hes right though it's pointless and didn't achieve anything

[@DC-hw7fw]

It's stupidity and its own ignorance.

[@beecee2205]

Gervais starts to run out of material so takes poorly aimed potshots. sad

[@henrydover7752]

thank god we have bastians like you

[@WhyKnot-lr1kk]

Ricky can be pretty good at times but this was definitely not one of them. Overall, this video wasted my time

[@somebloke5565]

I'm guessing because you think anyone would listen, you've been on one of those 'peace-marches' or wish you had?

[@ukaszwojtalik8198]

it was semi funny bit gag AI thought it rly was 😅 btw it was about Ukraine 😅