Ricky Gervais' funniest ever interview | 60 Minutes Australia

in all my years of interviewing so-called funny people I've often been faced with the sad truth that many of them aren't that funny in real life not so ricky gervais z' but along with the laughs this dangerously sharp comedian also have you wincing an agony or cringing with embarrassment at some of his observations Ricky's rule is there isn't any topic that can't be joked about it's landed him in plenty of trouble but as he says he couldn't give up he's a bloke who died by falling asleep Henry Francis Bray who fell asleep maybe he was sort of sitting on a tall 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 a posthumous Awards no good to anyone give me it now which is why on this cold London day I find myself walking through a graveyard with one of the world's funniest name I love English graveyards yeah they're great this remind us what it is that it's finite and all the things we care about now mean [ __ ] all they mean nothing the things that people got furious with you about yeah yeah yes fullness of two are they love me when I'm dead before he dies he seems bent on offending as many people as possible you're so much better than last year's audience now they had a right stick up their ass thank you but the more wicked he is the more he is loved and the richer he gets I grew up in poverty with nothing right but the point was to pay away then have a laugh that was the men the women carried on working obviously on the eve of launching his new series Rickey is welcoming me to his world down in the posh London suburb of hamster tell me where you go here 28 but we've had it knocked into one so family can't stay until it's too easy these days to put a foot wrong dude got my posh trainers that I put on a TV this your Ricky Gervais who simply doesn't care the comfortable shoes are important that's all I care about I don't I'm clean oh oh we're a sofa this rubbish yeah I know what sometimes a notice device grew up in a working-class council house the youngest of four children he was known as the mistake in his family he nurtured early dreams of being a scientist philosopher and a rock star but somehow his sense of humor got in the way where did the presumption come that you could actually make a living terrific living by being funny well I didn't I sort of fell into it I was always doing it I was always having a laugh everyone does it you know the funniest person you know isn't a professional comedian it's your mate or your dad or your uncle I was always trying to be funny and and you know and you get a job and you and you maybe it would laugh at work and at weekends I never really thought of it as a profession I can wake up one morning and go oh I don't feel like working today can I just stay in bed all day no better ask the boss David can I stay in bed all day yes you can David both me I'm not it's not me in bed with another bloke called David it's one of those great showbiz success story see how his boring office job turned out to be a creative apprenticeship nast the Polaroid for a celebrated television series aptly named the office private life and just to flesh out David Brent the man is there a better how David quipped why buy a book when you can join the library suddenly at 40 years of age the unknown Ricky Gervais and his awkward character David Brent were world famous I mean when I won the BAFTA right and for David been the first BAFTA I won and I was at home that night sitting there with Jane and you know 41 years old with a BAFTA there and I said why didn't I do this earlier and she said because you wouldn't be any good at it you got to live a real lion your lifelong pal exactly and you have to you'd have to use to live a real life to be able to write about real life and my girlfriend of over 30 years Jane although she hasn't really contributed to my career no no I'm saying this is submissive sort of all me in fact thinking about it she has done fuck-all I like you so much more because you filthy rich but you made it yourself you didn't inherit it and you made it between your ears by being one of the funniest men in English well thank you and and yeah I mean that is important that can I borrow ten quid yes yeah no but that is important to me and you know I didn't have any money till I was 40 and I didn't much care either [Music] after the office came more series you are guaranteed an Oscar if you play a mentor with all too willing celebrity guests you remodeled it very fashion let's just hope it's big enough gentlemen Ricky Gervais and even some not so Loki emceeing geeks those the last time I have sex with 200 middle-aged journalists and and Europeans with wispy beards the men were worse chefs come on his latest Netflix show afterlife her brother-in-law wants me to try dating again you need some tips is the darkest of dark comedies I'll be your date what role play it's a story of a small-town journalist working for the local rag while grappling with the death of his wife hi I'm Tony I don't want to appear ageist where those your own teeth improbably it's funny painfully so I play a guy who works for tambry Gazette and it's all stories like you know woman finds hat in tree and fat cat lost maybe that looks like Hitler yeah exactly yet how long did it take you to master the double nostril recorder few hours a day for a few weeks on it oh yeah blimey did me it in or worth it now though did you ever try journalism because this is my life you're doing yeah so because appalling interviews those awful things we'd get dragged it all jure knows has been through that I quite quite like that when I go to a new place I always look at the local paper and see you know that the headline is a blue book overdue I love that as so much better than another 12 people stabbed to death if their headline on your local paper is a something about you know stolen TV you live in a nice place the best story I ever did in Britain was as a young reporter based here was a boy who sneezed 30 times a minute I lived it lived in a with myself no with his mum in a council flat yeah and the air was sudden it was humidified because he'd be not sure sure as you might expect life's not easy for a sneezing man it's how old was he ah he was about 18 or 19 we couldn't hold down a job yummy sir and it was stuck mate was it your vice moment because what happened she said decide me one way he can stop if I put him in the wardrobe let's try the cupboard so he was in there right with the mum by and you told him and he was on camera and he was sneezes it was yes and then where he goes into the Wardrobe and I hear it faintly in Norwich sure enough the sneezing is slowing down that's amazing it should come to stop anyway I think it's something for you I give it as my gift no sorry you're meant to do good jokes right well I can go now I've made you laugh end of the interview right that's it coming up literally no one has said summer that's hurt my feelings because they live in a beaten cracking jokes don't do it every fine in the age of outrage you can tell people I'm an [ __ ] good luck to you but I'm gonna carry on saying what the [ __ ] I want and the biggest laugh that's all I've got on me that'll do at Ricky's expense it's not very often I get paid for doing the interview here though thank you very much you're actually taking it that's next on 60 minutes I understand that the town of Hampstead or the village has more millionaires than any other town is that true yeah I mean it's a beautiful place I like it because it's like the great grand daughters and sons of like painters and poets and me new money I felt like it was the Beverly Hillbillies and I've arrived you know people looking at curtains going who is this week Ricky Gervais walks his neighborhood in London's Hampstead every day and no one bothered she get famous it's on the mean streets of social media where the comedian cups his slings and arrows no one's ever upset me on Twitter literally no one has said sum up that's hurt my feelings because they live in a bin you know I mean there's someone in the bin and I go you you'd laugh you know what it's like no one can hurt my feelings I'm too happy trouble is with Holocaust films there's never any gag reel 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 outrageous comedy you've got a worse one yeah I'm not too sure about that one every line is considered and lovingly crafted our next presenter is the queen of pop not you out and sit down this is do you ever say the thing and then say I shouldn't have said yeah oh yeah it's office ago of course people think I just I go around saying well I don't you know course you said so and you think about it and it's it's calculated people think I got you know and host the Golden Globes and I'm just riffing and saying the worst thing I can think of it's nonsense of you know I want a joke to be bulletproof I want to be able to offend defender in ten years time we live in a great age of offense don't we people take offense by proxy on behalf of other people are not even offended well they do I think their people are professionally offended you go around looking for it you know you they really do seek it out it's like that they uncover things to be offended they go back and find ten year old tweets that this clickbait headlines that I see so often um so and so said a thing and people are furious and not only are we not furious most of us we don't care we wouldn't even known about it if you hadn't have found it in printed it and told us we're furious so it's it's just this vicious cycle but no I don't care and and um likewise I I'm I know people are allowed to be offended by things I've said that's up to them kids are scroungers okay I mean from day one it's only main name feed me clothe me pay for my chemotherapy ricky gervais sis firm belief that nothing literally nothing is beyond a joke has led him into controversy not my problem son territory he thoroughly enjoys look at the draw boy luck of the draw nothing should be beyond a joke well there's no subject you shouldn't joke about but it depends on the target people get offended when their mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target and they're not necessarily the same I'm an atheist I don't run into churches and say this is a load of bollocks it's not the forum for it but when I'm tweeting and when I'm doing that's my church you've come in this is my house my rules if you don't like it you can leave you can leave that's that's thing that's you you that's your form of protest you can leave and never watch me again you can tell people oh man our soul good luck to you but I'm gonna carry on saying what the [ __ ] I want saying whatever he wants has certainly been lucrative but it's also led to suggestions from pesky journals that he's grown so rich is forgotten where he comes from but for Ricky that's just more father do you know how much a pint of milk is was meant to make you look out of touch and I don't know but that's irrelevant right it's time a journalist asked me that honestly I don't know mate there's a grand run and get me well more yeah how much is a pint of milk I still don't know we don't have real milk in the house now we have some pharmacist I don't know yeah I do know I do yeah yeah yeah you know what embarrassingly I Slevin bothered [ __ ] looking at you said the next time a journalist says that how much to point the mill I'm gonna say is a grand run and get me what have you got that's all I've got on me that'll do thank you it's not very often I get paid for doing it interview here that it's making me feel funny he's taken 50 quid thank you very much he's actually taking it I'll buy a beer it's such a remarkable story of a clever thoughtful boy who once wanted to explore life as a man of science he works in cartoons doing something much the same in the equally serious business of making people laugh if you want the rainbow you've got up up with the rain you know which philosopher said that Dolly Parton it always comes back to us you know why are we here well we just happened to be here we couldn't choose it the chance of us being born that sperm hid in that egg is 400 trillion to 1 we're not special we're just lucky and this is a holiday we didn't exist for 14 and a half billion years then we got 80 or 90 years if we're lucky and then we're never exist again so we should make the most of it Gervase is trademark gravy our humor is fatalistic we will all learn that here so why not at least have a laugh along the way everyone should do their funeral whenever they want everyone gets one funeral right everyone comes along everyone does the epitaph whenever they want whenever their help that's what you see we should do it and then you were there and then when they die but what would we say about you fell asleep No here lies Ricky Gervais is he had a laugh and then found a lump hello I'm Charles Wooley thanks for watching to keep up with the latest from 60 minutes Australia make sure you subscribe to our channel you can also download the 9 now app for full episodes and other exclusive 60 minutes content

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Length: 17min 0sec (1020 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2019

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[u/perunakki]

Man he is getting old.

[u/nolep]

It’s good to see him talking about Steve for once.