r/rickygervais 19h ago

Ricky Gervais on how we're destroying the planet & how we could help feed millions

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u/Vheisso 18h ago

He writes his standups nowadays with the sole purpose of it being clipped up into witty and biting 60 second clips for his fans to share on social media. He really is a saaad, strange little man.

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u/TheChaddingtonBear 3h ago

Blimey here he comes

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u/SwampApeDraft Turns Out, Little Reddit Fella 19h ago

But that private jet you’re always posting selfies from is totally fine, Rick?

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u/-Universal_Gleam- 18h ago edited 9h ago

ohhhhhhh he's done you, he's turned it round on you again!

sparks are flying!

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u/braveheartpenguin 12h ago

The antagonism! It’s like three blokes in a pub, and people are listening!

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u/M0squitobyte 17h ago

Play a record

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u/CtrlThirdDegree 18h ago

Nope.

But that doesn’t make him wrong.

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u/Comfortable-Can-9432 17h ago

No but it makes him a massive hypocrite. He probably has a higher carbon footprint than the entire combined theatre he’s lecturing.

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u/CtrlThirdDegree 15h ago

It absolutely does. The fact he is a tit doesn’t mitigate the fact that he is right. All the cry hards will downvote though!

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u/Jack070293 2h ago

Who is claiming that he is wrong? Who do you think you’re winning an argument against?

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u/Nilbogoblins 12h ago

If it lets them carry on eating meat then it's all good.

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u/NaturalAlfalfa Unlikely lust object 19h ago

The worst part about all this, is he's right. He's totally right about the destruction of the environment. We are in the shit badly, and I agree with basically everything he says.

But he's still such a smug wanker I can't stand to listen to him. Also, is this what his standup is like now? Poorly researched environmental lectures? He's like a Facebook post come to life

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u/sentientshadow2000 16h ago

I believe we call this the Ben Elton effect

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u/KungFuFightingOwlMan 15h ago

This big clock in London 'n that sounds like a famous gay fella. What's going on there? B E are the initials

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u/queztioz 10h ago

You don't see an old person eating a vegan Twix

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u/Comfortable-Can-9432 15h ago

But as a billionaire he’s far, far, far more responsible for it than all of the people at his show.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime

I don’t blame him for that. If I was a billionaire, I would have a massive carbon footprint myself. But what I wouldn’t do, I wouldn’t go around lecturing people who cause far less of it than I do. Coz that would make me a massive hypocrite.

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u/aehii 15h ago

Are you suggesting here that Gervais is a billionaire?

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u/Rincethis 3h ago

I think it's called hyperbole.

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u/Comfortable-Can-9432 12h ago

Sorry no, not literally a billionaire. I guess he’s worth a couple of hundred million?

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u/DependentObject 11h ago

not a billionaire then...

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u/AquilaAdax 8h ago

He’s 0.2 of a billionaire.

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u/bfsfan101 What's a Babylonian? 50m ago

Pretty big gulf between £100M and £1B.

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u/Binbag420 7h ago

This is potentially the most retarded reddit comment i’ve read so far ❤️

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u/ExoatmosphericKill 16h ago

Imagine if everyone behaved like you..

The aliens need to come and grow me a beard.

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u/DependentObject 11h ago

Agree totally! I remember his hotwings vid where they gave him the vegan wings. lol. He was clearly gutted they weren't the real chicken but just played along cos they assumed he was vegan.

OCTUPUS ON THE SPAGETTI.

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u/inthemagazines 11h ago

Weak observations, poorly performed.

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u/m3m0m2 18h ago

I don't like that he suggested to eat less meat. This is green agenda propaganda. The reproduction rate of white families is below 2, so are not responsible for over population.

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u/1800SHITFUCKPISS 18h ago

I saw a similar theory written on a wall once, but it was written in shit.

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u/m3m0m2 18h ago

Given your username, it was written on you.

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u/Fish_Fingers2401 14h ago

I mean... All mates.

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u/No_Atmosphere8146 18h ago

This.... was on the Internet. 

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u/NaturalAlfalfa Unlikely lust object 18h ago

Jesus...I don't know where to start with any of that. What a mong

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u/ZodiAddict 18h ago

Probably because you don’t have a counter argument to begin with

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u/NaturalAlfalfa Unlikely lust object 17h ago

A counter argument? Like how.meat production produces far more CO2 and uses way, way more land than the equivalent amount of vegetable production? And as for " white families" I don't even know what difference the amount of melanin in someone's skin has to do with anything

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u/venusisupsidedown 18h ago

Do you like spike lee?

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u/m3m0m2 18h ago

No, I don't know him.

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u/NEVER_CLEANED_COMP 16h ago

Answered "E" then, did you?

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u/Turdburp 18h ago

Steve, what error has he made there?

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u/m3m0m2 18h ago

Telling the truth is not allowed apparently.

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u/Caltra 18h ago

Once you say something that’s true, we’ll see

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u/jar_jar_LYNX 16h ago

They arrest you for saying your English these days

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u/mentelijon 11h ago

I said “when did this come in?”

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u/sentientshadow2000 16h ago

Funny for a man who spends his days posting on r/conspiracy to not understand how the petrochemical industrial complex spends hundreds of millions on propaganda to basically create FUD around the concept that releasing CO2 into the atmosphere will trap heat in the atmosphere while at the same time trying to suppress research and development into renewable energy and nuclear power

I mean its not like the USA has been fighting a air war against Iran over who controls how to ship the oil from the middle east while launching coups in Venezuela so it can get hold of its oil while at the same time Argentina have been moaning because they want the Falklands for the oil underneath it

You smooth brain

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u/mentelijon 15h ago

It's the most convoluted, ridiculous, RACIST piece of material ever to be uttered on r/rickygervais!

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u/jnru 18h ago

That's the most convoluted, ridiculous, RACIST piece of material ever to be uttered on a tinpot subreddit.

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u/Paisley_Cornflake 17h ago

Brush your teeth

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u/PropJoesChair Out of the frying pan, into the saucepan 15h ago

Go and eat your gammon and then play with your stone

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u/MustangBarry We talk about Chinese people, monkeys and gays every week 28m ago

Uh, this is Racist FM, 104.9.

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u/m3m0m2 15h ago

Plenty of men with a small penis have downvoted me!

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u/1800SHITFUCKPISS 15h ago

You should consider being a co-host on a radio show. In a few years time there could be a subreddit where people quote the nonsense you've said on air.

Also have you ever had a neighbour that kept an 'orse in the 'ouse?

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u/Hunnumss 18h ago

I work at an animal shelter that Ricky Gervais visited a couple years back to take one of his 'look at me looking sad whilst holding a sick animal' photos for his social media. He didn't speak to anyone other than this tall lady who came with him who I guess was his PA and his photographer who was a little fella in a baseball cap. They basically walked around like they owned the place and the photographer completely ignored anyone that spoke to him. I asked his assistant why the photographer was so rude and she said 'Listen, he's a great at taking photos. He's just doing his job. Leave him be'. Eventually I got so mad at the photographer ignoring everyone that I stomped up to him whilst he was taking a photo and whipped his baseball cap off. Turns out...

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u/The-Sunflower-Bear 15h ago

Stop talking shit all your life.

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u/Breakfast_Bob_ 15h ago

Play a record

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u/supa325 12h ago

A little fella in a cap, you say?

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u/DonkyFondler 19h ago

Has he forgotten that he's a comedian?

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u/No_Atmosphere8146 18h ago

"You're a comedian, right? I haven't heard you tell a joke in fifteen years."

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u/mywhitebicycle0 18h ago

Never mind your veganism, where have you been for fifteen years?

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u/CosmicBonobo 18h ago

Young Karl, I've never joked in front of your mother, in the thirty-five years.

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u/truckyoupayme 18h ago

Not so funny without his goggle-eyed mate.

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u/YorkshireFudding Never go swimming 17h ago

What’s Caesar’s kid’s name? Comedian, something...

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u/nuggynugs 17h ago

"Make me laff, bastard" 

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u/Different_Possible_5 14h ago

Ohhhh let’s see your stand up then shall we donkeyfondler 

Mister toad. 

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u/Epik44 12h ago

I can't

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u/mentelijon 19h ago

Ricky: The trouble with Christmas dinner, I mean, the roast dinner is the king of dinners and the Christmas dinner is the king of roast dinners.

But you can't have one every day.

Steve: No, it's absurd.

Ricky: It's brilliant.

Steve: We have three meats in our house.

Ricky: It's unbelievable. The amount of meats is just amazing. It's just a plate of meat.

Steve: It's just meat, yeah.

Ricky: With one Brussels sprout, one token Brussels sprout and the gravy.

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u/keatnzs 19h ago

I think he’s generally considered the best…. Beethoven

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u/CosmicBonobo 18h ago

And there's... Beethoven...

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u/The-Sunflower-Bear 15h ago

All the big ones..

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u/stinrab 12h ago

Keep whacking the cooker with some kind of stick 

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u/GeraldPreston Rubby and diamondo 19h ago

Is this the same farm ran by the two little hairy fellas?

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u/SnappytheCrocodile 19h ago

Not really a trick is it? Knowledge.

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u/Few_Shock8656 18h ago

The same bloke who flies around in a private jet?…

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u/Axle-f 8h ago

From his gargantuan oversized home?

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u/Gylvardo 18h ago

Billy Piper says: Labour

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u/pstmps 18h ago

Do we need another 100 million people? London's already full of people

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u/FiveYardFaded 18h ago

My god you’re deep

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u/oli_ramsay 18h ago

Alright, don't have a cow

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u/mulletcircus A dog that's got a cough in Singapore 18h ago

hypocrite warning!

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u/alexintradelands2 18h ago

How many cows does it take to feed a family of six?

It's only one

Cheap as beef

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u/General_Cherry_3107 19h ago

Money for old rope.

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u/JamieEC 18h ago

Are you doing much about the planet or are you mainly focused on the stand up?

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u/InvestigatorSea4789 Alright 17h ago

Doing much about the destruction of the planet? Or are you focusing mainly on the trans/woke moral panic?

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u/MustangBarry We talk about Chinese people, monkeys and gays every week 19h ago

This Ricky Gervais?

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u/MrJimPansey mad world tho, innit? 18h ago

You're not looking at the whole pie, Barry!

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u/Any-Investigator2141 18h ago

I remember him once saying he ate 10 or 12 sausages in a sitting and then became convinced he was having a heart attack. Which isn't unreasonable, in that context.

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u/mywhitebicycle0 17h ago

I’m fully behind Rick on this one Oooh ding dong

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u/Lumpy-Economics2021 17h ago

I prefer the bit you do about the disableds.

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u/breddabreddabing 16h ago

are you doing much about the planet? or are you working mainly on the comedy?

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u/Jip_Jaap_Stam 9h ago

"Comedy"

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u/DrugSnake 18h ago

This is about comedy is it?

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u/Speshjunior 18h ago

I would eat a dog

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u/prosthetic4head chicken with teeth 11h ago

plants account for roughly 450 Gt C, followed by bacteria at approximately 70 Gt C and archaea at about 7 Gt C. This highlights the significant role plants play compared to other forms of life, including fungi, which are the third most abundant life forms on Earth.

As always, there's someone sticking up for Gervais. The stats he presents seem to be true for mammals. However, plants make up 80% of biomass on Earth, even fungi are third most abundant. There's loads of them about but...what do they do?

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u/RSK-XFM_FAN 9h ago

If poor people would stop over-populating the planet, this wouldn't be much of a problem.

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u/carterartist 9h ago

A wise man once said: “You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg."

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u/Charming_Donkey5130 9h ago

Think how many people we could feed if Gervais stopped eating, fat cunt.

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u/crueladze 3h ago

It’s just mad that this is a clip from what I can only assume is a comedy stand up. What he’s saying isn’t wrong but imagine going out for some laughs and being subjected to this all night

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u/Rincethis 3h ago

he's right. but he's also an arrogant prick who aims at disenfranchised groups for cheap, low hanging fruit 'laughs'. He also plays that 'dohs are better than himans' card so often it's tiresome. We get it mate. You hate humans because you think they're all like you.

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u/CtrlThirdDegree 1h ago

Hardly an argument when I’m agreeable with the points made Jack. Just because I have a differing perspective doesn’t mean I’m picking a fight, chill out.

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u/phil24jones Great ape fruit juice 1h ago

Do some more of the trans shit

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u/pmogy 17h ago

At least he was using his platform to speak up for the animals.

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u/eeeeeeeedddddddddd 17h ago

hopefully they introduce a beef eating license soon so they can tax those who eat it and help us build a better future!

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u/sentientshadow2000 12h ago

dumb frogposter

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u/MasterGrieves 'Right Kirsty? 3m ago

Hold on. There are 1 billion cats and 1 billion dogs. Lets make them all vegan, so we can save the planet!