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Ricky Gervais

lines on the record: 74
first: 2019-07-12
most recent: 2019-07-12
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Called racist, right? Because everyone that's being fired And publicly embarrassed about a misdemeanor and being called a Nazi, there are real Nazis who are getting away with it.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I get so that to me is like a little light at the end of the tunnel that, okay, I've fired, I've lost, but at least I'm not a racist. And that's what people know of the power of it. They know it's the worst thing to be and accuse someone of. And that's the, do you know what I mean? So that's the power people have when there's a lynch mob out to get someone. People do sacrifice good people because they can't get to the bad people.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's interesting as well. But then again, there's something comforting in that because. A lot of people, if that had happened to me and I'd been fired and lost my livelihood, I'd still want people to know that actually I wasn't a racist. That would still be the worst bit for me for people to think I was a racist.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Uncle Tom, he helped the midwife this atrocity. That was the headline. And the rest of us were sort of like collateral damage. But he was the one that got the real height.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now he's got a point, really, because if there's no value in saying sorry and changing and progressing and evolving, why bother? He might as well just do those tweets again. And it's really counterproductive”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hosting the Oscars. The tweets come back up, the Marb on Twitter going, What about these tweets? You're finally at homophobe, you're cannot ask this committee, oh, just apologize again, Kevin. He goes, no, I can't keep apologizing. I said, sorry, and I can't keep hotgoing. So he lost a job.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Magazine, no less people reading. But you can't legislate against stupidity. You can't legislate against the future or you can hope is that people understand. Like I talk about this in my new show Supernature about the council culture that it's not enough to apologize anymore and move on. People want blood. People want you ruined because it's a point scoring competition now. So Kevin Hart did some shitty childish homophobic tweets 10 years ago about my son's not gay. At the time, we got a battle. I said, Oh, sorry, I didn't mean like that. I was just being silly, really sorry, deleted them all. Then he gets the job of his life.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think the big impossible feat through recent changes is you can make your jokes bulletproof at the time, but now you have to make them bulletproof for 10 years time just in case there's a 10.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that has to be. Perception, I think, for a comic, because as soon as you start apologizing to the mob, you might as well give Heckler as the stage, because that's all they are, they're hecklers, and you've got to be in charge. And I think if I have achieved that, I've achieved it for lots of reasons that's happening under the water. That is, I try and make my stuff bulletproof so I can defend it. I don't go out there and go, I'm going to say what I want, an offender I want, and I'll ruin the day, and I'll undermine the moral fabric of society, and I don't care. I'm not like that at all. When these jokes, these routines hit Netflix or BBC. They've been tested on people around the world. They've been honed.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kind of amplification. Of course. Well, that's exactly what it is. Twitter is, I mean, Twitter has become more and more of a cesspool. And you just mustn't take it seriously. You've got to treat it like it's virtual. And I don't get a lot of stick really. I see some people that it's like they're keeping back a mob with a flaming torch.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but then that's like really, if you take social media, not just social media, now lazy journalism, the worst bit of clickbait for me is so-and-so said a thing and people are furious. No, no, they're not. 0.001% people are furious. The rest of us don't give a fuck and we wouldn't even know about it if you hadn't made it a headline and shown two tweets as an example. You know, so that's the problem. If you take what social media is saying, you might as well go and visit every public toilet wall in the world and get offended by what they've written.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I never signed that deal with the devil. You know, make me famous and you can go through my bins. So I was quite militant about my privacy and probably too much. Now it's cool. Now I don't care. And I also thought it would be an injustice for people to tell lies about me because I thought my reputation was everything, you know. And now I think it's still important, but I realize that reputation is what strangers think of you, you know, and character is what your friends know you are. And so.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, 38 39 starting and then. After the first year of the office, I think I hit four, it would have been, yeah, it would have been, yeah, July 2001, I was just 40. And it's because lots of things, you know, I didn't want to people to think that I didn't want to be lumped in with those people that just wanted to be famous. So I wanted to be clear that this was an upshot of fame. If you become a successful comedian or actor, you're probably a bit of a famous one just because, you know.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but still, but to most people, I came from nowhere because all the other stuff was small. I had a bit of a cult following from the 11 o'clock show. You know, we're still talking a couple of million people. watching that and indeed the first year is the office i think only got like one or two million people then it repeated and it became a cult and then it was like four million then the first the first episode of the second season got started at five million so it grew sort of gradually and quickly But yeah, that was certainly when I thought, oh, okay, I'm a professional comedian now with a bit of profile. And it was creepy at first. In fact, I feared fame before it happened because I was sort of older and wiser. I was like,”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that was certainly, I'd have to say that I would be getting recognized on the streets and see things about me in the news and my picture around.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and he wasn't called that. It wasn't until he started thinking about it and he's got to have a name. And then there was this sort of nice synchronicity that I was earning enough and didn't have a day job to sort of write the office. And it still didn't go out for another two or three years. I went out in July 2001. And then I also got my own show from the Channel 4 thing as a little spin-off called Meet Ricky Gerais, you know, again, it was getting like a million people, but I knew I had the office and I knew the office was sort of more important. And I thought this is what I want to kick the door down with.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Full time, and I'd already started, I already had David Brent along with lots of other things that I was doing, just again, it seemed like I was an amateur comedian all my life.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I went on, and I was funny. I was just myself, and I was sort of funny, but a normal guy being funny, never thought that this would be my job And soon I was popping up on three or four different radio shows throughout the day. And it was just the day job with a little bonus, you know. And I think from that, I got, someone was listening, they were starting a new show on Channel 4. This is 1997. And it was called the 11 o'clock show. So it was sort of like a cutting edge no-hold barred sort of Saturday night live for new comedians and pretty much anything you'd say what you want. And I went on there a couple of times. And I suppose that was when I thought, oh, this is good. This pays better than a real job. It's less work. It's fun. But still I was thinking, this is not going to last. You know, I'm just doing this. And then I thought, no, I'm earning enough now to do this.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It pays the rent and I've got friends and it's fun. And then because I worked as part of, it was the admin center for the university, I helped a local radio station get its license by letting them promote to the students. And out of the blue, because I got on with them, it was a tiny little station that just got his license called XFM, they rewarded me with the job. And again, it was still an admin. I was the head of speech and they wanted me to, you know, write little news things and help out in the office. It was a gift of a job. And I was meant to write things for the DJs, what was on that night or bits of the news. And because I'm lazy, I thought, do I have to type this out? Can't I just go on and say it myself? It'd be quicker. And I went, yeah, go on”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I actually started stand up before the office went out. And I think my first Edinburgh show was while the office, the first series was going out on TV. So I certainly started right in the office before I started doing stand up to any degree. But they're about the same. But I think it was still relatively late. Okay, briefly, I was a failed sort of musician early 20s. I then eventually got a job, just a job in my 20s. And I worked in an office for like nine years, I think, which is what the office was sort of based on. I wasn't taking notes. I wasn't thinking one day I'll be a comedian and I'll write about this. I was thinking... This job's near my house.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I guess sort of an accident, a very slow, gradual process. And by the time I decided to be a professional comedian, I sort of nearly was one.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Scared that us two in a room would egg each other on and we'll say things that will be you can't have a subtle argument anymore is my is my point there's there's no there's no place for nuance or or everything has to be binary for the for the right people to agree and disagree and there's no context anymore no one cares about context anymore they take anything out because it's all about point scoring so that's why when we're discussing you know, contentious or having a discussion seems dangerous. In the modern”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My pleasure. I've travelled a quarter of a mile for this In my office, very near my house in Hampstead, you've flown 3,000 miles.”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I imagine it's fantastic. It might be sort of A linear relationship. Ralph, funny everything is Alaska's louder and louder”
2019-07-12 · Making Sense with Sam Harris · #163 — Ricky Gervais · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source