Ricky Gervais

out well that's the thing you know um you do have to find the funny but you have to go for it and you have to be able to play and that's the problem again with today as well because i've done shows that i'm trying stuff out and it's been reviewed and i'm gonna go well that's mad You can't do that. You can't do someone who's just started a painting going, it's rubbish. I haven't done it yet.

out well that's the thing you know um you do have to find the funny but you have to go for it and you have to be able to play and that's the problem again with today as well because i've done shows that i'm trying stuff out and it's been reviewed and i'm gonna go well that's mad You can't do that. You can't do someone who's just started a painting going, it's rubbish. I haven't done it yet.

out well that's the thing you know um you do have to find the funny but you have to go for it and you have to be able to play and that's the problem again with today as well because i've done shows that i'm trying stuff out and it's been reviewed and i'm gonna go well that's mad You can't do that. You can't do someone who's just started a painting going, it's rubbish. I haven't done it yet.

I've just done the back. You know, it's crazy. So you have to fight against that. And I try and keep politics, explicit politics, out of comedy because I think If you're relying on the audience agreeing with you and getting a round of applause, it loses something comedically. I want my jokes to be liked. I don't care whether they're right wing or left wing or whatever, right?

I've just done the back. You know, it's crazy. So you have to fight against that. And I try and keep politics, explicit politics, out of comedy because I think If you're relying on the audience agreeing with you and getting a round of applause, it loses something comedically. I want my jokes to be liked. I don't care whether they're right wing or left wing or whatever, right?

I've just done the back. You know, it's crazy. So you have to fight against that. And I try and keep politics, explicit politics, out of comedy because I think If you're relying on the audience agreeing with you and getting a round of applause, it loses something comedically. I want my jokes to be liked. I don't care whether they're right wing or left wing or whatever, right?

Because the joke either works or it doesn't. And it actually shouldn't matter. It's meaningless anyway nowadays, left and right wing. It's a meaningless term.

Because the joke either works or it doesn't. And it actually shouldn't matter. It's meaningless anyway nowadays, left and right wing. It's a meaningless term.

Because the joke either works or it doesn't. And it actually shouldn't matter. It's meaningless anyway nowadays, left and right wing. It's a meaningless term.

but i think it's important that you evolve but not with those reasons you don't evolve because it might be taken the wrong way you don't evolve because you might be bullied by a reviewer you don't evolve because you want everyone to like it that gets you nowhere when did that happen for you because that's a certain uh fearlessness that i think you have to achieve you you can't i'm sure there was part of you when you're much younger that you didn't have that right

but i think it's important that you evolve but not with those reasons you don't evolve because it might be taken the wrong way you don't evolve because you might be bullied by a reviewer you don't evolve because you want everyone to like it that gets you nowhere when did that happen for you because that's a certain uh fearlessness that i think you have to achieve you you can't i'm sure there was part of you when you're much younger that you didn't have that right

but i think it's important that you evolve but not with those reasons you don't evolve because it might be taken the wrong way you don't evolve because you might be bullied by a reviewer you don't evolve because you want everyone to like it that gets you nowhere when did that happen for you because that's a certain uh fearlessness that i think you have to achieve you you can't i'm sure there was part of you when you're much younger that you didn't have that right

I've probably got more fear now, but you have to fight it. You have to be... You have to know that art is being brave. It is being brave and putting it out there. Because you've got more to lose now, right? Well, it just makes me angry. It makes me angry if people don't get something or... So...

I've probably got more fear now, but you have to fight it. You have to be... You have to know that art is being brave. It is being brave and putting it out there. Because you've got more to lose now, right? Well, it just makes me angry. It makes me angry if people don't get something or... So...

I've probably got more fear now, but you have to fight it. You have to be... You have to know that art is being brave. It is being brave and putting it out there. Because you've got more to lose now, right? Well, it just makes me angry. It makes me angry if people don't get something or... So...

That makes me work harder to still get the same joke out there and everyone like it and be able to defend it and sleep at night, which I always have done. There's this myth that I go out there and I say what I want and I don't care about what people think of me. That's just not true. It's a hell of a challenge to... I do love it when you do say at the end of it, I don't care. Yeah, of course.

That makes me work harder to still get the same joke out there and everyone like it and be able to defend it and sleep at night, which I always have done. There's this myth that I go out there and I say what I want and I don't care about what people think of me. That's just not true. It's a hell of a challenge to... I do love it when you do say at the end of it, I don't care. Yeah, of course.

That makes me work harder to still get the same joke out there and everyone like it and be able to defend it and sleep at night, which I always have done. There's this myth that I go out there and I say what I want and I don't care about what people think of me. That's just not true. It's a hell of a challenge to... I do love it when you do say at the end of it, I don't care. Yeah, of course.

I love that. And that's marketing. And you have to be militant about it. You have to act like you don't care. But actually, you know, it annoys me when any sort of someone thinks, that you've done this or you've gone too far. Or I want to go, well, I've worked that joke for a year with like hundreds of thousands of people. You've thought about it for three seconds and you've got it wrong.

I love that. And that's marketing. And you have to be militant about it. You have to act like you don't care. But actually, you know, it annoys me when any sort of someone thinks, that you've done this or you've gone too far. Or I want to go, well, I've worked that joke for a year with like hundreds of thousands of people. You've thought about it for three seconds and you've got it wrong.