He is brilliant. Gets funnier with age. Couldn’t sleep the other morning so ended watching Humanity at 3am. Woke the whole household I was laughing so hard
All the people on here saying he stole this from Karl Pilkington are delusional. None of what he says here in terms of the structure of the joke, the wording, delivery etc remotely resembles anything Karl ever said - the similarity starts and ends with the fact they both don’t like looking at photos of kids. Who does? It’s like saying that because Gervais once did some jokes about religion, any comedian that ever jokes about religion in the future will automatically be ripping him off, regardless of the joke. It makes no sense!
McLovin What a load of bullshit... Similar concepts of comedy do not constitute as “stolen” Otherwise, majority of what comedians say are not original and are all rehashed...
@FifeHanny I know what you mean, I started listening to the old xfm shows a few years ago, and was amazed at how much I recognised from his stand-up. Some bits, like the 'goats for Africans donation' were more or less verbatim KP observations, and others, such as 'Humpty Dumpty' were based on conversations where either Steve or Karl contributed a large proportion of the funny lines. It wouldn't be so bad if he credited them with providing material, but he seems to have gone in completely the opposite direction. At his talk at the Oxford Union, he referred to "when *I* wrote 'The Office'", effectively removing Smerch from consideration.
I do this. Do you do this as well? Yes. You know that thing, do you do that thing as well? YES You know when this thing happens, do you feel like that as well? For fuck's sake YES Ricky. Observational comedy.
Ricky... Watching your Humanity show on Netflix actually hurting me physically. How!? you might ask. I'm at home recovering after a hernia surgery on my abdominal muscles, so it hurts a lot as soon as I start laughing. My favorite part starts 26 minutes in, from the "Three reasons why I don't want to get my own kids" routine, reason number three! You even start laughing a little yourself when you are visualizing how funny your acting must be looking for the audience, haha. Brilliant! Watched it over and over again. It's worth the pain. :D Greetings from Sweden
The joke I did the most laughing at was the analogy he used where he says 'thats like walking into a town square, seeing a notice on a notice board for guitar lessons and then saying BUT I DON'T FUCKIN WANT GUITAR LESSONS'.
I wanted to go to the San Francisco venue but the CHEAPEST seats were $100, which is RIDICULOUS and ASININE. (and more than a little bit SAD) But that's why he's worth $90 million. So it's Netflix for me, as usual, and everyone else who can't afford to spend a few hundred dollars+ on ONE night's entertainment.
He's definitely completely verging into the "lazy fat old f*ck" genre of comedy, which is almost entirely comprised by him and Patton Oswalt, and which is characterized by tired, self-indulgent talking with a strong focus on gross bodily details. (Women usually excel at the latter, however that is another topic and baffling in and of itself.)
it's really sad of how even most of the people commenting here still don't get it (oblivious), nor understand that this is not just simply a mere only joke or stand-up comedy; but more importantly, Ricky is actually telling the deeper truth & reality that sadly only very FEW smart (& real brutally honest) people will understand & admit everything that he said.
He thinks that you need to be intelligent to understand it because his standard for intelligence is very low. He doesn't understand that not everyone is as thick as him, his family and/or mates.
its pretentious because its suggests your part of some special elite that truly understands the underlying points and relevant contexts of his stand up when a lot of his fans actually do
Stealing from karl, *and steve, good work dude. I'm twenty two minutes in, and every bit so far, is material from their xfm show. I finished, its just xfm jokes (nme, bbc2, podcasts), I feel vindicated.
Isn't that how comedy is developed? Someone saying they don't like looking at their sisters kids is not especially funny. That's the bit Gervais added. All you are saying is that he developed comedy from a situation that was not inherently comical. that is what is called being a comedian. I'm puzzled you struggle so much with very basic concepts.
Comedy
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Best thing to do to stop people showing you their kid photos: Just look and say "Can I get a copy of that"?
They won't show you any more.
@Pete g given its don3 just for joke and no harm.
@Pete g holy shit thats funny. I just imagined a person doing this and the look of the person showing the picture. Gosh how funny is that.
@Boris Müller or just lick your lips
Hahaha
Love his visuals, that bit where he discards the body that doesn't match the photo, great touch
I never noticed that on Netflix!
MikeT he’s always been good at those little touches. Like when he played an elephant in Animals.
Ricky gives me hope to mankind when I see him !
Then I go out ...
He is brilliant. Gets funnier with age. Couldn’t sleep the other morning so ended watching Humanity at 3am. Woke the whole household I was laughing so hard
1:56 Ive never laughed as hard in any comedy show ever
An awesome stand up... worth the 7 year wait for sure!! #GervaisMoreOften
smart, brave and funny. best standup I've ever watch. Regards from Italy
He better start coming up with Standup specials every year!
Loved it. This kind of comedy keeps people grounded.
The Tube no it’s not I was there during recording. You don’t even know do you lol.
It's fake comedy! The laughter is pure canned. Can you not recognise it?
All the people on here saying he stole this from Karl Pilkington are delusional. None of what he says here in terms of the structure of the joke, the wording, delivery etc remotely resembles anything Karl ever said - the similarity starts and ends with the fact they both don’t like looking at photos of kids. Who does? It’s like saying that because Gervais once did some jokes about religion, any comedian that ever jokes about religion in the future will automatically be ripping him off, regardless of the joke. It makes no sense!
@Clay James And merchant...people always fucking forget steve.
McLovin
What a load of bullshit...
Similar concepts of comedy do not constitute as “stolen”
Otherwise, majority of what comedians say are not original and are all rehashed...
yes also I'm sure ricky owns the intellectual property of everything karl pilkington said
GBHanny8 I’ve listened to all the old XFM shows. Multiple times. This routine wasn’t stolen.
@FifeHanny
I know what you mean, I started listening to the old xfm shows a few years ago, and was amazed at how much I recognised from his stand-up.
Some bits, like the 'goats for Africans donation' were more or less verbatim KP observations, and others, such as 'Humpty Dumpty' were based on conversations where either Steve or Karl contributed a large proportion of the funny lines.
It wouldn't be so bad if he credited them with providing material, but he seems to have gone in completely the opposite direction.
At his talk at the Oxford Union, he referred to "when *I* wrote 'The Office'", effectively removing Smerch from consideration.
When he picks up the imaginary body in the woods by the hair, before throwing it aside 😂
this man is a genius
I have never related as much to Ricky as I do in this very clip! I don't even like children, yet people still show me pictures
Exactly what i’m thinking when a friend shows me a picture or video of their kids doing something trivial as if they discovered a cancer cure.
Thank you for this, good good stuff.
I almost suffocated on the last bit.
Seen on netflix yesterday: F-E-N-O-M-E-N-O (phenomenal)! Kisses from Rome.
I FUCKEN DIED LAUGHING!!!!! The whole thing is so funny!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this guy
Ricky Gervais is the bomb 😎😎😎😎😎😎
I do this. Do you do this as well?
Yes.
You know that thing, do you do that thing as well?
YES
You know when this thing happens, do you feel like that as well?
For fuck's sake YES Ricky.
Observational comedy.
Cannot express how FUCKING HAPPY I am for this!!
Ricky... Watching your Humanity show on Netflix actually hurting me physically. How!? you might ask. I'm at home recovering after a hernia surgery on my abdominal muscles, so it hurts a lot as soon as I start laughing. My favorite part starts 26 minutes in, from the "Three reasons why I don't want to get my own kids" routine, reason number three! You even start laughing a little yourself when you are visualizing how funny your acting must be looking for the audience, haha. Brilliant! Watched it over and over again. It's worth the pain. :D Greetings from Sweden
Not saying this is bad but that laughter is really sweetened
The joke I did the most laughing at was the analogy he used where he says 'thats like walking into a town square, seeing a notice on a notice board for guitar lessons and then saying BUT I DON'T FUCKIN WANT GUITAR LESSONS'.
FUNNIEST STANDUP IV SEEN IN AWHILE
awesome show
Watching Humanity yesterday reminded me how great a stand-up comedian Louis CK is.
George Carlin had similar parts in his sketchs about "people who ought to be killed".
Arc Kocsog and also in "Child Worship".
Amazing 😂😂😂
Saw this in london, his best yet, top form right through.
yea saw in newcastle, it was just so funny.i was just happy to see him live for the first time but it was great.
andpand99 is it true that Steve and Karl were whispering their old material from behind the curtain?
Jk, thats awesome.
For anyone whose seen the rest of this on Netflix
“Ah, ah wake up.......oh.........DEAD! What a fucking waste of time”
This bit had me laughing so much. *drops* *kicks* lmfao
I cried and laughed at the same time.
Best part for me.
Why can’t more people be like this guy
This is great.
This is the clip I wanted to send to my friend!...
Great Stand ! Thank you.
I wanted to go to the San Francisco venue but the CHEAPEST seats were $100, which is RIDICULOUS and ASININE. (and more than a little bit SAD)
But that's why he's worth $90 million.
So it's Netflix for me, as usual, and everyone else who can't afford to spend a few hundred dollars+ on ONE night's entertainment.
Show me if she goes missing lol
I’ll keep my eye open in the woods
had me on the floor...
Hehe ...mans a genius ....
Can’t wait for this.
the KING is BACK
Funny because it's true😅
Gutted, he spent five minutes on the baby joke when I saw him in Bournemouth and it was only 20 seconds on Netflix. Definitely cut :-(
Great stuff
😂😂😂👏👏👏
How good is he
Ooooooh! On Netflix! Yay!
looks worth downloading.im sure netflix have already paid you.
He's definitely completely verging into the "lazy fat old f*ck" genre of comedy, which is almost entirely comprised by him and Patton Oswalt, and which is characterized by tired, self-indulgent talking with a strong focus on gross bodily details. (Women usually excel at the latter, however that is another topic and baffling in and of itself.)
Has anyone noticed that Ricky's Office is being taking away from Netflix two days from today, the 13th?!
She's f-ing beautiful😂😂😂
He looks a bit older than he did in his last stand up special back in 2010
How will we ever get to the bottom of this mystery?
Are you somehow unaffected by time, like some kind of god.
morecrows gta thats because hes 8 years older? thats how the ageing process works.
Lol @ when it goes on too long.
The only bit I didn't like was his anti Brexit joke, he seems to forget over half of his audience voted to leave lol
epic
I hated you, but then I loved you. It's only been 2:04.
Watched this ,heard it all before ,used to funny once...rinse and repeat
1:03 😂
I detected a joke in poor taste, the army are on their way!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
my unlce is the 3rd one, he always look at other people children photos waaaaay too long its creeping me out
Fuck sakes... now i have to subscribe to netflix because i have to see this!
Should have called it society (you've cornered yourself in). What's the next one "Space".
mugged by mice, hahah
Funny, funny, funny
Greit Ricky!!!
I'm watching the special right now, but why in the heck is the audience blacked out, if there's even an audience there?
Is he funny..?.. not when you see through him
Sorry to inform you. This show was recorded in front of an empty auditorium and canned laughter was added later. Takes away the fun does it not?
Release date?
my birthday, the 13th March ;-)
5 FACKING DAYS
DrMeatdic...........agree
it's really sad of how even most of the people commenting here still don't get it (oblivious), nor understand that this is not just simply a mere only joke or stand-up comedy; but more importantly, Ricky is actually telling the deeper truth & reality that sadly only very FEW smart (& real brutally honest) people will understand & admit everything that he said.
He thinks that you need to be intelligent to understand it because his standard for intelligence is very low. He doesn't understand that not everyone is as thick as him, his family and/or mates.
did sound propa 'emperor's new clothes'ish when i read it though
although to be fair i re-read your comment and your referred to the people commenting on this video not his fans in general
its pretentious because its suggests your part of some special elite that truly understands the underlying points and relevant contexts of his stand up when a lot of his fans actually do
Yes, I understood the joke.
Funny but if he were talking about puppies I'm pretty sure he'd be a bit more earnest about it
Very disapointed with the Humanity special 80% of the show was repeated in talkshows.. Conan, Fallon and so on..
:D whoop!
Ricky “I love socialism but I hate my entitled family” gervais.
Minefield
"Only on Netflix"
And torrent sites 😉
yay
Stealing from karl, *and steve, good work dude.
I'm twenty two minutes in, and every bit so far, is material from their xfm show. I finished, its just xfm jokes (nme, bbc2, podcasts), I feel vindicated.
Not even just this specific bit though, he has used so much Karl material, even in his newest show after life
you cant steal karl's joke if karl wasn't joking
Every comic ever.
Isn't that how comedy is developed? Someone saying they don't like looking at their sisters kids is not especially funny. That's the bit Gervais added. All you are saying is that he developed comedy from a situation that was not inherently comical. that is what is called being a comedian. I'm puzzled you struggle so much with very basic concepts.
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Derek
Me
Well that was piss poor. He hasn't been funny for ten years now.
your opinion is wrong
DoctorMeatDic you’ve reported your mother for harassment?
reported harassment
that's a horrible thing to say about your mother
Same old stolen material from his mates.
So if you've seen the whole thing yet, Steven Lee's point is spot on.
+WollongongWacko haha, put him in a wheelie bin and went to Blackpool.
Call me dicky anders farting for five minutes in a wheelie bin, but I agree.