Ricky Gervais' funniest ever interview | 60 Minutes Australia

In all my years of

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ing so-called funny people, I have often been faced with the sad truth that many of them are not that funny in real life, not quite Ricky Gervais Z', but along with the laughs, this comedian Dangerously sharp also has you grimacing in agony or cringing at some of his remarks. Ricky's rule is that there's no topic you can't joke about, it's caused him a lot of trouble but since he says he couldn't give up, he's a guy who died falling asleep Henry Francis Bray who fell asleep maybe I was sitting on a high pole and then you would die falling asleep I like a spy Milligan's Ricky Gervais believes that to appreciate life you need to contemplate death posthumous awards are of no use to anyone can you tell me now and that's why on this cold day In London I find myself walking through a cemetery with one of the

funniest

names in the world.

I love English cemeteries, yes they are great, this reminds us what it is, that it is finite and all the things you care about now mean

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ything they mean nothing the things that people got mad at you for yes yes yes fullness of two me they love it when I'm dead before he dies he seems hell-bent on offending as many people as possible you're so much better than last year's audience, now they had a stick right up their ass, thank you, but the more evil he is, the more they love him and the richer he becomes.

I grew up in poverty with nothing good, but the point was to pay and then have a Risa, those were the men the women were still working with, obviously, on the eve of the release of their new series. Rickey welcomes me to his world in the posh London suburb of Hamster, tell me where you're going here 28, but we've turned it into one. so the family can't stay until these days it's too easy to be wrong, man, I've got my fancy sneakers that I put on a TV, this is your Ricky Gervais, who just doesn't care, comfortable shoes are important, that It's all that matters to me.

No, I'm clean, oh oh, we're a sofa, this rubbish, yes, I know what sometimes a warning device grew up in a working-class council house, the youngest of four brothers, he was known as the bug in his family, fueled his first dreams. of being a scientific philosopher and a rock star, but somehow his sense of humor got in the way, where did the presumption come from that you could actually make a great living being funny? Well, I didn't, I kind of fell into it, I always was. Doing it, I always laughed,

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yone does it. You know, the

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person you know isn't a professional comedian, it's your friend, your dad or your uncle.

He was always trying to be funny and you know, you get a job and you and you would maybe laugh at work and on the weekends. I never really thought of it as a profession. I can wake up one morning and say, "Oh, I don't feel like working today." Can I stay in bed all day? Isn't it better to ask the boss David, can I stay in bed all day? Yes, you can, David, both. Not me, it's not me in bed with another guy named David. It's one of those great showbiz success stories. See how his boring office work turned out to be creative learning.

I took the Polaroid for a celebrated TV series aptly called Office Private Life and just to develop David Brent, the man, is he there? Better how David joked: why buy a book when you can suddenly join the library at 40? The unknown Ricky Gervais. and his strange character David Brent were world famous, I mean, when I won the BAFTA and for David it was the first BAFTA I ever won and that night I was at home sitting there with Jane and you know, 41 years with a BAFTA there and I said why Why didn't I do this before?

And she said because you wouldn't be good at it, you have to live like a real lion, your lifelong friend exactly and you would have to live a real life to be able to. writing about real life and my girlfriend of 30+ years, Jane, although she hasn't really contributed to my career, no no, I'm saying this is a submissive thing for me, in fact, when I think about it, she has everything done, I like you. much more because you are filthy rich but you did it yourself, you didn't inherit it and you did it between your ears by being one of the funniest men in English, well thank you and yes I mean it's important, can I borrow ten ? quid yes, yes, no, but that's important to me and you know I didn't have money until I was 40 and I didn't care much after more series came to the office, you're guaranteed an Oscar if you play a mentor with everything.

Very willing celebrity guests, you remodeled it very fashionably, let's just hope it's big enough, gentlemen, Ricky Gervais and even some not-so-Loki, emcees, geeks, those the last time I had sex with 200 middle-aged journalists and Europeans with thin beards, the men were worse chefs. come on, on his latest Netflix show, again, his brother-in-law wants him to try dating again, you need some advice, it's the darkest of dark comedies, I'll be your date, what a roleplay, it's the story of a journalist from a small town guy who works for the local rag while dealing with the death of his wife hello I'm Tony I don't want to sound ageist where those your own teeth are improbably it's funny and painful so I play a guy who works for Tambry Gazette and they're all stories like, you know, woman. find a hat in a tree and a lost fat cat maybe it looks like Hitler, yes exactly, but how long did it take you to master the double nostril recorder a few hours a day for a few weeks?

Oh yeah, geez, I did it or now it's worth it. Have you ever tried journalism because this is my life? You're doing it, yes, because the horrible

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s, those horrible things that would drag us down, everything you know has happened, I quite like that when I go to a new place, I always look. in the local newspaper and I see that you know the headline is a delayed blue book. I love that, because it's a lot better than 12 other people being stabbed to death if the headline in your local paper is something about, you know, a stolen TV, you live in a nice The best story I did in Britain was when I was a young reporter who lived here.

There was a boy who sneezed 30 times a minute. I lived it. I lived with myself, no, with his mother, in a subsidized apartment, yes, and the air was sudden, it was humidified. because you wouldn't be sure, as you would expect, life is not easy for a man who sneezes, the question is how old he was, ah, he was about 18 or 19, we couldn't keep a job, delicious sir, and he was stuck , friend, was it your vice? moment because what happened she said, decide one way, he can stop if I put it in the closet, let's try it in the closet, so he was right there with the mom and you told him and he was in front of the camera and he was sneezing, It was yes. and then when he walks into the closet and I hear him faintly in Norwich, sure enough, the sneezing is slowing down, that's amazing, it should stop anyway, I think it's something for you, I give it as my gift, no, I'm sorry, you are meant to do it. good jokes, well I can go now, I made you laugh, end of the interview, that's what's coming, literally no one has said summer, that hurt my feelings because they live in a beaten down place.

Jokes don't cut it well at the age of indignation you can tell people I'm lucky for you but I'm going to keep saying what I want and the biggest laugh I have is all I have about me I'll do at the expense of Ricky isn't very often I get paid to do the interview here, though thank you very much, you're actually going to take it, that's next in 60

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. I understand that the city of Hampstead or the town has more millionaires than any other city, it's true, yes, I mean, it's a beautiful place I like it because it's like the great-granddaughters and the children of painters and poets and I new money I felt like were the Beverly Hillbillies and I've arrived you know, people look at the curtains and say who is this week Ricky Gervais walks around her in Hampstead in London every day and no one bothered that she became famous is on the mean streets of the social media where the comedian takes his slings and arrows no one has bothered me on Twitter, literally no one has said a recap that hurt my feelings because they live in a container, you know, I mean, there's someone in the container and I'm telling you, You would laugh, you know how it is, no one can hurt my feelings, I am very happy, the problem is that with Holocaust films there are never any joke reels on the DVDs.

I don't know, there isn't, don't do it every five, don't think that Gervaise is Kells or offhand with these scandalous comedies, you have a worse one, yeah, I'm not really sure about that, every line is considered and created with love our next presenter is the queen of pop, not you, come out and sit down, this is, do you ever say that thing and then say? I shouldn't have said yes, oh yes, it was back in the office, of course, people think I just go around saying Well, I don't know, of course you said it and you think about it and it's calculated that people think I made you know and host the Golden Globes and I'm just riffing and saying the worst thing I can think of, it's stupid of you.

I know I want a joke to be bulletproof. I want to be able to offend the defender in ten years. We live in a great time of offense. Don't we people get offended by power on behalf of other people? We're not even offended. Well, they do. he thinks his people are professionally offended you go around looking for him you know they really look for him it's like they discover things to be offended they go back and find tweets from ten years ago that title this clickbait that I see so often um so and then he said something and people are furious and not only are we not furious, most of us don't care, we wouldn't even know if you hadn't found it in print and told us we were furious. so it's just this vicious cycle, but no, I don't care and, um, in the same way, I know that people are allowed to be offended by the things I've said, that's up to them, kids are scoundrels, okay , I mean from day one it's just the main name feed me dress me pay for my chemotherapy

ricky

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sister firm belief that nothing literally nothing is beyond a joke has led to controversy not my problem territory son he really enjoys look the lucky draw guy in the draw nothing should be beyond a joke well there is no topic you shouldn't joke about but it depends on the objective, people get offended when they confuse the subject of a joke with the real objective and are not necessarily equal.

I'm an atheist, no. run to churches and say this is a load of nonsense, it's not the forum for that, but when and when I'm tweeting, that's my church, you've come, this is my house, my rules if you don't like it. you can leave you can leave that's that's you you that's your form of protest you can leave and never look at me again you can tell people oh man our soul good luck to you but I'm going to keep saying what I want to say everything you want certainly It's been lucrative, but it's also led to suggestions from annoying newspapers that he's gotten so rich he forgets where he comes from, but for Ricky that's just cooler, do you know how much a liter of milk is? out of touch and I don't know, but that's irrelevant, it's about time a journalist asked me, honestly, I don't know, mate, there's a big race and it'll make me better, yeah, how much does a liter of milk cost?

I do not know yet. We don't have real milk in the house now we have a pharmacist I don't know, yes, yes I know, yes, yes, yes, you know what embarrassingly? Slevin bothered to look at you and said the next time a journalist says that, how much? aim the mill I'm going to say it's a great career and get me what do you have that's all I have on me that will do thanks it's not very often I get paid to do it interview here that makes me feel It's funny, he's taken 50 quid. Thank you so much.

He actually he's taking it. I'll buy a beer. It is such a remarkable story of an intelligent and thoughtful boy who once wanted to explore life as a man of science. He works in cartoons and does something very similar. the equally serious business of making people laugh if you want the rainbow you're up with the rain you know which philosopher said Dolly Parton always comes back to us you know why we're here well we were just here we couldn't choose it the likelihood of us being born that sperm hidden in that egg is 400 billion to 1 we are not special we are just lucky and this is a holiday we did not exist for 14 and a half billion years so we are 80 or 90 years old if we are lucky and then we will never exist again, like this that we must make the most of it.

Gervase is a signature sauce, our humor is fatalistic, we'll all learn that here, so why not at least laugh? the way everyone should have their funeral whenever they want everyone has a funeral okay everyone comes everyone does the epitaph whenever they want when they want your help that's what you see we should do it and then you were there and then when they die but what would we do? Tell me you fell asleep No, here lies Ricky Gervais, he laughed and then found a lump. Hi, I'm Charles Wooley, thanks for watching to stay up to date with the latestfrom 60

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