Ricky Gervais' Airport Mental Breakdown! | Science | Universal Comedy

I've always considered myself kind of a liberal, rational guy and then after 9/11 the world understandably went a little crazy, the rules suddenly changed and there was a lot of anger and fear and finger-pointing and hysteria, and I'm still trying. to remain rational about it or had been in the pub with friends now come on no you can't say that's a generalization oh you just read that no you don't that's not true that's received wisdom that's not a no. You can't tie it with the same brush no it's still the safest form of transport it's 16 million to one trying to stay rational that's in a pub when I'm flying it's more like checking it again can we know what you're getting into?

He's climbing on my can, I check him, can I check him, but that's fear? In reality, I had always been a nervous flyer and I flew before, shortly before and just after 9/11, always in and out of New York and Los Angeles, and I tried to remain rational again. I was thinking no, it's even safer now it's even safer now it's hard to get and then I found out that a suicide bomber doesn't have to get on the plane now they don't even have to kill themselves now they can They have heat seeking missiles. They can shoot down the plane in the first 10 minutes of takeoff.

So now I would be on the plane like this. We are out of reach. Now he has the bomb. I flew out a couple of weeks after 9/11 and um there was an internal flight from New York to Los Angeles and we got off. I'm going okay, we're out of range okay and I was a little nervous and um I told the flight attendant and I said do you have any magazines? and she went. Quite loud and lackadaisical, she said, no, honey, we don't have magazines, we've had to make severe cuts because we're one of the companies sued for 9/11.

There is no mention of 9/11. Surely a new rule book was published. Ronda, don't mention 911 when you complete the chocolates, just know, two, don't say severe cuts because I already want to think about magazines. When you say severe cuts, I think of a guy in an airplane hangar earlier that week. I really need all these rivets, so what a terrible treatment for patients. I mean, I take first class flights everywhere, you wouldn't have it any other way. I really do it for you and some of those flights are 10 grand and for 10 grand in A disaster. I hope my part of the plane in the front gently breaks apart and floats towards a desert island.

It is not like this. I'll die with the rest of you losers. That is not fair. I know they tried to save me, but. You couldn't be, you're probably the only one mentioned in the news, um 450 more, so that's something I guess, right? No, so I'm flying all the time and then it happened. Well, I was flying back from New York. 925 ba in first class to London JFK all week in the United States before that flight on every television channel there was a tape that said the United States on Red Alert is fine and every bulletin said that we have an Intel that there will be another 911 This end of week in New York or Los Angeles don't fly unless absolutely necessary.

I have to do it. I was filming and if you fly, be very attentive, so I'm there. I'm the only one in the first class lounge, right? I'm still trying to stay philosophical. I'm thinking today is the day you definitely don't try to plant a bomb on the plane. You know what I mean? You think not, everyone will wait until Monday, right there and about 15 minutes before. As we board the first class lounge this guy arrives. I don't know if he was from North Africa or the Middle East, but he had all the equipment and the beard, a whole steel briefcase.

Okay, here's your rational middle-class liberal. Go. Suddenly I'm hiring staff. in a silly conversation, I'm going to fly on time, they're going, yes, again, what's the weather like in England? and they go, oh, it's like they were going to go, oh, it's a great club, you're right, it wasn't like that. It won't happen now, so now I'm thinking about this, all the things for the week before, there will be a level nine, it will be here, it will be today, it will be New York, oh my God, right, but now I have doubts there is a fight between the good and evil between the rational and the irrational okay, so this one says oh, that's a suicide bomber oh, very stupid, how do you know?

This is what they look like, why did you say that Trivium in every The? Very stupid Daily Mail, it's a cliché and then he makes a phone call. I can't understand what he's saying, but he sounds a little angry, right, this one says oh, we made a phone call, this one says, you just made a phone call, yeah, but not in foreign Mr. Shut up, stupid, why are you Do you think he looks at the beard? They already checked it. They checked him just like we did. I checked the beard. Yes. They checked the bed. They checked the bed.

Okay and then I say everything moves on. and I'm looking at him absentmindedly, staring at him and he catches me looking at him and says like this this one says who knows this girl says no, he knows why you're looking at him, he's had that kind of prejudice that month stop looking at him shut up okay but this one starts to win, fear begins to defeat rationality okay, it's going well, it will be today yes, I know, but what, but the statistics well, today they are up, right? They are awake, yes, but what doesn't happen to them won't happen to us, they said that on 9 11, yes, but what about all the controls?

Well, they find new ways to get past our detectors, so we have to up our game. and that's like yeah, you're right, so suddenly now we win that I think, oh my god, this is it and you get a wave of nausea when you suddenly say, oh my god, this is it. I'm one of the people who have witnessed it, I think I'm going, okay, yes, let's report it, this one is going, no, we can't, why, in case someone thinks we're racist, what the fuck, no, come on. to throw it away and be a wrong live racist, let's say hello, and then I.

I'm there and I think he's a suicide bomber. I'm going to get on the plane with him and I'm going to die and I'm having a little nervous

breakdown

and I'm about to cry and all of this happens in a few moments. and I look and his wife joins him, who has all the equipment and they are two little girls, and I say, oh, of course, he's not a suicide bomber, if you're going to see 72 virgins, you don't take the wife. and the kids, so I got on the plane and I was relieved and embarrassed and I saw the funny side of this and of course he wasn't a terrorist, he was a businessman and a family man, he was playing with his little boy. . girls, he kept running up and down crashing into my chair, he wasn't doing anything, um, it was like I was scaring him and they were fucking with the voice like after half an hour I was waiting for someone to fly the plane. true, but something really strange happened during that period.

I became so worried about a terrorist attack that I started flying private planes and helicopters everywhere just because he was so rich abroad.