1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.LT 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,240 [audience chatters indistinctly] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.LT 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,720 [applause and cheering] 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:21,160 [man hoots] 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,120 [cheering increases] 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,800 Thank you. Thank you. 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,560 Thank you. Wow. Thank you very much. 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,880 -[cheering continues] -Oh. [Ricky chuckles] 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:36,640 [chuckles] 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,560 Thank you. Okay. 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:39,880 [laughs] 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:40,880 Okay, shush. 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,200 Thank you. 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,400 Sh… Uh, uh, honestly, I'm overwhelmed, but shush. 16 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:48,080 -Thank you so much. -[laughter] 17 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,720 -[whooping] -Thank you. Um, welcome to the show. 18 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,880 It's great to be back with a brand-new special. 19 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,600 Um, my last special only dropped on Netflix the Christmas before last. 20 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,840 And in that special, I talked about the previous special going to number one 21 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:04,760 because of all the complaints. 22 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:05,800 [laughter] 23 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,320 And the silly cunts did it again. I mean… 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,600 [laughter] 25 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,760 When will they learn? It's like… Honestly. It's… 26 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,280 "Ban it. Ban it. Ban it from the…" 27 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,680 -Number one, everywhere. I… -[laughter] 28 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,120 My name, like, trended for three days that Christmas. 29 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,800 I wasn't the only comedian who trended that Christmas. 30 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,480 Do you know the comedian Rosie Jones? 31 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,280 She's got cerebral palsy, and she was on a… a TV quiz show, 32 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,760 and the… the trolls came out on Twitter, going, "She's not funny." 33 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,920 "You're only saying that 'cause she's disabled." 34 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,040 "You're only defending her 'cause she's disabled." Back and forth. 35 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,520 But that wasn't her biggest controversy of the year. 36 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:41,680 This is a true story. 37 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,200 Earlier that year, Rosie Jones made a documentary for Channel 4 38 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,960 about her condition, her plight, some of the trolling she gets, 39 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,520 some of the insults she gets called, right? 40 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,840 And she provocatively called the documentary, 41 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,360 Am I a R*tard? 42 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,160 -[laughter] -Yeah. Great. Power to her, right. 43 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,400 Now, the people who complained were disability campaigners. 44 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:04,560 They had a go at her. 45 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,560 They went, "You can't use that word." She went, "What? Why?" 46 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,480 They said, "Because you're physically disabled." 47 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,120 "That's a derogatory term for people with mental disabilities." 48 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,080 "If you wanna use a derogatory term, use one that describes your condition." 49 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,400 So basically, Rosie Jones said, "Am I a retard?" 50 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,160 And disability campaigners said, 51 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,600 "No, you're a spastic." 52 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:23,840 [laughter] 53 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:27,320 -That's… That's harsh, isn't it? -[scattered clapping] 54 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,800 [laughter] 55 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:30,520 I mean… 56 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,560 It's context. She was… She was using it to empower people. 57 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,160 She was called that. She didn't go, "No, that's not me." 58 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,920 She… she sort of embraced it and, you know, reclaimed the word. 59 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,240 So disability campaigners are saying, "No, you gotta be very specific." 60 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:51,520 "Only people who are actually retarded can use the word 'retard,'" right? 61 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,080 But who's gonna tell 'em? Who's… You know what I mean? Who's gonna… 62 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,440 [laughter] 63 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,280 You're not gonna go into a room and there's, like, Bubba sort of… 64 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,560 [laughter] 65 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:03,560 …lying on the floor, crayoning, right? 66 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,600 And you go, "All right, Bubba?" 67 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,080 He goes… [nasally] "Yeah?" Oh, no, don't. Sh. Don't, don't, don't. 68 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,960 -It's a tightrope. Let's leave… -[laughter] 69 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,920 [in own voice] He goes, "Yeah?" You go, "You know you can say 'retard'?" 70 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:19,480 "Why?" 71 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,880 -"Think, you thick cunt. Just think." -[laughter] 72 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,800 [Ricky suppresses chuckle] 73 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,120 Anyway, I think she should be allowed to use the word, in context. 74 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,040 If she can't use the word, then I… 75 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,640 I've used the word now, so I'm in trouble, again. 76 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,560 Actually, I didn't use the word. This is a point I wanna make. 77 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,840 People say, "Oh, he used the word so-and-so." 78 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,160 I didn't use the word. 79 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,360 Using the word would be calling someone that word. 80 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:46,560 That's using the word. 81 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,640 I said the word in a discussion about the fucking word. 82 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,320 That should be allowed, shouldn't it, amongst adults? 83 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,040 If there's one thing we should agree on, 84 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,520 whatever side of the political fence you're on, 85 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,680 we should all agree that free speech is still a really good thing. 86 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,160 -It always has been… -[cheering and applause] 87 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:06,520 [whistling] 88 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,320 …and it always will be. 89 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,240 But now there's factions of people going, "No, we got it wrong. We don't like it." 90 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,280 "We've changed our mind. We don't like free speech anymore." 91 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,120 "People who want free speech, they only want free speech 92 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,120 so they can go around saying awful things." 93 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,520 Which just isn't true, and even if it was, 94 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,760 the good thing about free speech is people can say awful things back. 95 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:28,320 It's a really good system, right? 96 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,640 And you can't say anything under the laws of free speech. 97 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,120 That's a total misconception. 98 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,600 There are loads of caveats to free speech, all of which I agree with, actually. 99 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,080 You can't incite violence. Good rule. 100 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,400 You can't slander people. Good rule. 101 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,720 You can't libel people, you know? 102 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,600 Fascinating fact about libel law. 103 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,440 You can't libel the dead. 104 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,480 So I could stand here and say, 105 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,440 "Gandhi used to take it up the arse." 106 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,800 [laughter] 107 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,040 If I wanted. 108 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,440 [laughter continues] 109 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,520 -Which I do. I do. -[laughter] 110 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,720 [Ricky laughs] 111 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:07,640 [laughter subsides] 112 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,120 But free speech is the most important human right, 113 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,840 from which all other rights come. 114 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,600 Without free speech, you couldn't have human rights. 115 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,640 We've got free speech, in theory, 116 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,600 in this country, for a little while longer. 117 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,960 We can criticize the government. We can criticize the police. 118 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,520 We should give props to a country that allows us to do that. 119 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,160 We're the envy of some countries. 120 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:28,320 In some countries, 121 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,120 you criticize the police, you get beaten up, or worse. 122 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,400 You criticize the government, you can be thrown in jail for life. 123 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,640 So they flee their oppression, quite rightly. So would you. 124 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,600 They flee and they come here. They go, "We wanna come to England." 125 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,480 We go, "Why?" They go, "Free speech." 126 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,960 We go, "Come on in. Welcome. What are you gonna do now?" 127 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,760 "Go on a march." "What are you gonna say?" 128 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:48,160 "How shit England is." 129 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,920 -"Cheers. Thank you. Thank you." -[laughter] 130 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,440 -That is their… That is their right. -[applause and whooping] 131 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,920 But I'm, um… I'm too old now not to say what I want. 132 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,320 You know? I wanna say and do what I want all the time. 133 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,640 I wanna do my favorite thing all the time. 134 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,800 I don't even like doing my second favorite thing 135 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,600 if I think I could be doing my favorite thing, you know? 136 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,600 My favorite thing is play tennis. 137 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,880 I play every Friday. I keep Fridays free. 138 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,760 I look forward to it. I play tennis. It sets me up for the week. 139 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:21,720 So if ever on a Friday I have to do my second favorite thing, 140 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:22,960 like three weeks ago, 141 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,280 attend a neighbor's kid's funeral, 142 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,240 I'm like… 143 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:27,200 [laughter] 144 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:28,680 "This is 145 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:30,920 boring." 146 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,400 [laughter] 147 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,240 But we all want respect, right? 148 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,160 We all want respect, 149 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,360 and we all wanna raise our status in society. 150 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,720 We can't help that. That's in our evolution. 151 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,680 That's group selected from when gossip used to control the tribes, right? 152 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,520 And there's still two ways you can raise your status in society. 153 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,760 One, be competent at something. 154 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:58,400 Like, "Oh, he's a good hunter. Go with him. He's good for the tribe." 155 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,120 The other way you can raise your status is have virtue. 156 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,600 Like, "Oh, he's not a great hunter, but he's… he's wise." 157 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,360 Or "kind," or whatever. You know? 158 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,000 And then, with the advent of social media, 159 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:13,240 people suddenly discovered they could just say they were virtuous. 160 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,720 No evidence. No proof. 161 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,240 Just loads of flags in their bio, right? 162 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,520 [laughter] 163 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,040 And they would raise their status 164 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,320 by bringing other people down, catching other people out. 165 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,480 "Look what he said. He's not as virtuous as me." 166 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,120 "Look how good I am. Look how bad…" 167 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,840 That's where the term "virtue signaling" comes from. 168 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,240 And I hate it when they bring their kids into it. 169 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,560 You can believe what you want, have opinions what you want, 170 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:35,760 vote how you want… 171 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,240 Go on a march. Great. 172 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,360 But when I see a five-year-old holding a placard, 173 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:41,880 he doesn't know what that says. 174 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,960 That's the adult, you know? I saw someone tweet this once. 175 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:46,320 Someone tweeted, um, 176 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,120 "My four-year-old just looked up at me 177 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,760 and said, 'Mummy, why does Rishi Sunak hate poor people?'" 178 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,520 Never fucking happened, right? 179 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,280 [laughter] 180 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,840 But the most annoying thing about virtue signaling 181 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,760 is it's people being smug about having the morality of the age. 182 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,360 You're what you're like 'cause of where you are and when you are. 183 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,080 Like, it's not brave of me to be an atheist 184 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,040 in this country in this year. 185 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,200 It would have been brave 200 years ago. 186 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:16,400 Or mental. 187 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,560 And it'd be brave in some other countries, or mental. Right? 188 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,360 But people say things like, "Oh, I'm anti-racist." 189 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,080 "Yeah, well done. We all are." 190 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,400 We know that's the way to be now, but it wouldn't have always been. 191 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,960 If you'd been born in a different place or time, maybe you wouldn't have. 192 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,160 They go, "No, I'd have been an anti-racist whenever I was born." 193 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,000 People say things like… They go, um, 194 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,520 "Oh yeah, I'd have definitely hidden Anne Frank." 195 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,280 Would you? Would you? 196 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,360 [laughter] 197 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,520 Anne Frank comes to your door, in the war. 198 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,600 You open it, right? There's Nazis everywhere, right? 199 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,720 She goes, "Can I hide in here?" You go, "Whoa. What…" 200 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,520 -[splutters] -[audience laughs] 201 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,800 Just facepalmed Anne Frank, like that. 202 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,440 [laughter] 203 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,120 "Whoa. Wait." 204 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,440 "What happens if they find you?" 205 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,120 "Uh, they murder me, and you." 206 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:06,280 "Go next door." 207 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,280 [laughter] 208 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,280 "They've got a lovely big attic, a typewriter. You're gonna love it there." 209 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,360 [laughter] 210 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,000 But I'm anti-racist. Of course I am. 211 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,000 But I'm willing to admit that if I'd have been born 300 years ago, 212 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:23,920 and I was white and wealthy, 213 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,160 I'd have probably have owned slaves. 214 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,760 Because… No, 'cause… 215 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,560 I'd be nice to 'em, so shut up. 216 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,600 -[laughter] -I'd be… Yeah. That's right. 217 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:34,440 I'd… I'd be the best slave owner you've ever fucking… 218 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:35,960 No, I would. I'd look after… 219 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,920 I'd dress mine well. I'd dress my… I'd dress my slaves… 220 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,160 Yeah, I would. I'd dress mine in little suits. Right? 221 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,040 I'd… I'd go… I'd go, "Throw those dungarees away." 222 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,480 -"Put a little suit on." -[laughter continues] 223 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:49,720 All the other slaves looking. I'd go… 224 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,080 And I'd go… And I'd go, "Right, let's go to the pub, boys." Right? 225 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,640 All the "white" people would go, "You can't take your slaves to the pub." 226 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,960 I'd go, "Fuck you, fascists. They're…" 227 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,360 [laughter] 228 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,240 "They're my slaves. I'll do what the fuck I want with 'em." 229 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:06,320 [laughs] 230 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,000 We'd go in the pub. The barman would go, "You can't bring them in." 231 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,040 I'd go, "Fuck you. We're going to the saloon bar." 232 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:13,400 We've got little suits on. 233 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,760 I'm like, "You look good in your suits, boys." 234 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,280 "Wear socks. We wear socks with suits." 235 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,960 I go… I go, "I'm buying the drinks. Put your money away." 236 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,880 "You haven't got any money, but you know." 237 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,280 And then we're just having a laugh, teasing each other, just bants. 238 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,600 If one of 'em got a bit too familiar, I would have to punish him. 239 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:32,840 -[laughter] -Just to keep the status quo. 240 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,400 If he called me "gammon" or something. 241 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,040 Which is the only racial slur allowed now. 242 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,360 You can call a white person a gammon. It's fine for some reason. 243 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,120 You can even be ageist. You go, "You fucking old gammon." 244 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,280 And it's totally acceptable, for some reason. 245 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,880 But I'm gonna reclaim the word. 246 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,280 You know like Black people have reclaimed the N-word? 247 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,800 I'm gonna reclaim the word "gammon." 248 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,400 So I'm gonna be in Carluccio's in Hampstead, right, 249 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,280 with all my white friends, 250 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,440 and we'd just be hanging, going, "How you doing, my gammon?" 251 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,640 Right? And… 252 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,720 [laughter] 253 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,240 If our Black friend, Rupert, um… 254 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:08,400 [laughter] 255 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,920 I said it was Hampstead. If… If… 256 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,240 [laughter] 257 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,640 If Rupert came in and went, "My gammon," I'd go, "You don't fucking use that word." 258 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,880 -[chuckles] -[audience laughs] 259 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,720 My point is, morality evolves. 260 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,760 It moves with the times, like everything else. Just think of that. 261 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,440 In a few generations, 262 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,640 we've gone from owning slaves being legal 263 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,160 and respectable in the eyes of God 264 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,840 to a racist being the lowest of the low, isn't he? 265 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,280 A racist is the worst person in society these days. 266 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,840 -Actually, a pedophile is the worst. -[laughter] 267 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,400 It goes pedophile, then racist. 268 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,920 A racist pedophile… 269 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,480 [laughter] 270 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:48,080 …is the worst per… 271 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,760 If I met a racist pedophile, I'd go, 272 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,600 "Fuck the little Black ones too, you bigot." You know? 273 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,760 -[raucous laughter] -[Ricky chuckles] 274 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,840 [scattered applause] 275 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,360 -Don't. -[laughter continues] 276 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,280 [chuckles] 277 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,480 [chuckles] That's fine. That's fine. It's fine. 278 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:08,760 [laughter continues] 279 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:10,840 They… [chuckles] 280 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:12,560 They won't cancel me for that. 281 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,480 [laughter] 282 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,720 They've been trying to cancel me for about 15 years, 283 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,200 and they've always failed. 284 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,600 And often, the people trying to cancel me 285 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,600 have been other comedians, writing for the posh papers, doing that thing… 286 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:26,840 They always say, "He's punching down." 287 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,760 "Comedy should punch up. We only punch up. We punch up." 288 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,040 Their idea of punching up, they have a go at Boris Johnson. 289 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:34,840 How the fuck is that punching up? 290 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,000 -You know? -[laughter] 291 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,840 The cunt is learning disabled. 292 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,080 -He's like… -[laughter] 293 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,760 …this fucking waterlogged Gary Busey, 294 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,200 fucking albino-egg-man thing. 295 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,280 He can't string a sentence together. Have you heard him talk? 296 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,080 He's like… [mumbles incoherently] 297 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,600 He's a fucking moron, right? 298 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:55,120 -[laughter] -I… No, I punch up. 299 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,360 I have a go at people like, I don't know, Stephen Hawking, right? 300 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,240 Yes, the greatest brain that's ever lived. 301 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,000 You can have a… He can take it. 302 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,520 And he wouldn't even have minded when he was alive, 'cause he's… 303 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,360 He's part robot, isn't he? I think… 304 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,200 He's basically a talking chair, so you can say… 305 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,560 -[laughter] -…what you want, but… 306 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,400 And he was on Epstein's island, apparently, so fuck him. 307 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,040 -I don't… -[laughter] 308 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,240 What was he doing there? Why did he want… "I wanna go…" "Why?" 309 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,040 -"Why do you…" "Why?" -[laughter] 310 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,040 He's just there, doing fuck… I would go, "What?" [scoffs] 311 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,600 I know pedos who'd kill for a ticket to that. 312 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,320 -[laughter] -And he's just taking up a space. 313 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,960 It's probably DEI or something, and they go, "We… we need one." 314 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,680 Like… I would go, "What are you doing here, Steve?" 315 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,600 He'd go, "I'm thinking weird shit." 316 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:39,520 -Fuck off. -[laughter] 317 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,840 That… that is probably a hate crime. 318 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,440 -That is, isn't it? -[laughter] 319 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,920 It's a big buzzword at the moment, "hate crime." 320 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,680 Whatever happens, someone always goes, "Was it a hate crime?" 321 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,600 "Why?" "Makes it so much worse." 322 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:56,720 Does it? Why? 323 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,400 If I was walking home tonight, and someone randomly jumped me, 324 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,600 beat me up, mugged me, stabbed me, threw acid in my face, 325 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:04,080 I wake up in intensive care… 326 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,280 Beep, beep, beep. 327 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,960 I open my eyes through the bandages. There's a policeman. 328 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,840 He goes, "Mr. Gervais?" I go, "Yeah." 329 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,480 He goes, "We just wanna let you know, it wasn't a hate crime." 330 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,240 -I go, "Oh, thank God for that." -[laughter] 331 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,320 Pretty hateful, innit? Right? Like… 332 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,760 But no, a hate crime is something that's based on your race, 333 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,240 disability, sexuality. 334 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,400 So a guy with a gun, he wants to kill someone at random. 335 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,040 He sees a crowd. He goes, "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe." 336 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:33,360 Bang. Kills someone dead. 337 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,520 He goes to court. The judge goes, "Why did you kill that person?" 338 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,880 He goes, "No reason." 339 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,600 The judge goes, "So you're not a bigot?" He goes, "Oh no." 340 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,120 Judge goes, "Aw." 341 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:43,480 [laughter] 342 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:44,600 "Ten years." 343 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,720 Some other guy's got a gun. He goes, "I fucking hate dwarves." All right? 344 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,120 [laughter] 345 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,440 He sees a little dwarf. He takes aim. Bang. 346 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,040 Kills the dwarf dead. Right? 347 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,000 He goes to court. The judge goes, "Why did you kill that dwarf?" 348 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,000 He goes, "'Cause I hate the little cunts." 349 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,080 -All right? -[laughter] 350 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,440 Judge goes, "You're a bigot. Twenty years." 351 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:04,880 Now, he shouldn't get more for shooting a dwarf. 352 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,920 If anything, it's a harder shot, innit? 353 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 -[laughter and applause] -He's done a… 354 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,840 If I was that judge, I'd go, "Wait. What? You shot a dwarf at 100 meters?" 355 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,440 "Yeah." "Fucking props. That is…" 356 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:18,720 [laughter] 357 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,120 "Five years." 358 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,800 "In the army. Get him in the army." 359 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:24,640 [laughter] 360 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,360 I feel bad about that joke, 'cause I was reading about 361 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,960 the… the tough time dwarves have had through history. 362 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,480 In medieval times, they used to torture 'em and kill 'em. 363 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,760 They used to put 'em in barrels with spikes 364 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,240 and roll 'em down the hill for a laugh. 365 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,600 Then in Victorian times, they'd stick 'em in the circus 366 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,080 and make 'em do dangerous fucking things. 367 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,120 And then, as late as the 1980s, 368 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,440 right, I remember colleges used to have events like dwarf-throwing, 369 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,160 where they were like darts on a thing. 370 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,240 Or dwarf bowling. 371 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,960 And eventually someone said, "What the fuck are we doing?" 372 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,600 "Can we stop making dwarves do shit for our entertainment?" 373 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,520 And it stopped. 374 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,800 And now it's back. Now they're in the Special Olympics. 375 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:07,120 Now they've got a… Yeah. 376 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,040 They go… They're going, "Let's race 'em, and…" 377 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,000 -[laughter] -Yeah. Yeah. 378 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,600 They're going, "Let's throw 'em in the water and see if they can swim." 379 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:16,760 [laughter] 380 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,640 They can. They can. So… 381 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:20,320 [laughter subsides] 382 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,000 It needs a bit of work, that one. I don't know if… 383 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,560 -[laughter] -[chuckles] 384 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,400 People don't realize how much goes into one of these tours. 385 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,840 My last tour, I did 60 new-material nights. 386 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,480 Then I did, like, 25 work-in-progress shows. 387 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:39,000 Then I did an 85-day arena tour around the world, honing it all the time. 388 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,840 One critic, sat at his kitchen table, said, "Lazy." 389 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:43,920 [laughter] 390 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,320 He called me immature and vulgar. 391 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,760 Four-eyed cunt. 392 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,920 [laughter] 393 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,480 I'm at that age now where everything annoys me. 394 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:55,760 I say this once a day. 395 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,120 I go, "Why don't things just fucking work?" 396 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,800 You know? Whatever it is. 397 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,320 The remote control for the TV. Working fine. 398 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:04,440 You go back to it. 399 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,680 "What… what's happened in the last fucking ten seconds? Why…" 400 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,000 The phone signal where I live in Hampstead is shit. 401 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,680 I walk around the mansion going, "Can you hear me now?" 402 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,760 -[laughter] -D'you know? 403 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,520 If you make a phone call in the cobbled streets of Hampstead, 404 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,960 you can have five bars, having a chat, lovely. 405 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,880 You go one step in the wrong direction… [imitates phone beeping] 406 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,080 Do you know why the phone signal's so shit in Hampstead? 407 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,880 Because everyone's posh there, 408 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,400 and no one wants one of those pylons in their garden, 409 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,400 'cause they look shit and give you cancer. 410 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:34,920 But I've said to the council, 411 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,680 let's find a blind person who's already got cancer… 412 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:38,960 [laughter] 413 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,880 [scattered applause] 414 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,560 Put it in their garden. Don't even fucking tell 'em. 415 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:44,960 Don't even… [chuckles] 416 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,640 [laughter] 417 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,480 But never mind inanimate objects. People annoy me the most. 418 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,360 Ugh. I say this once a day as well. 419 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,520 I go, "There's always someone who fucking ruins it." You know? 420 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,920 Like, we were on a flight to San Francisco a while ago, 421 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,200 me and Jane, right? 422 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:05,680 We took off, right? 423 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,040 First class. Seatbelt signs, ding. Drinks are served. Lovely. 424 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:12,400 Then this woman, about two rows back, she gets out her laptop. 425 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,800 She starts banging out something really important. 426 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,840 She's wearing fucking bangles. 427 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,720 They're like smashing against… I… 428 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,680 It's driving me mad. It sounded like fucking Morris dancing. 429 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,200 -[laughter] -It was driving me… 430 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,960 But I know it's not illegal. I can't go over, "Bangle Police." 431 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,840 So I just have to suffer in silence 432 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,320 and hope we crash. 433 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:32,640 -That is… -[laughter] 434 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,160 That is how I get over things now. 435 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,280 If someone's really annoying me, I just stare at 'em, 436 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,920 and I just imagine us both dead one day, and it sort of… 437 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,120 Here I was thinking… The pilot going, "We're going down." 438 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,240 The plane was going down, we're gonna die, 439 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,360 and I look over, and she's going, "Agh!" and I go… [cackles] 440 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,000 [laughter] 441 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,760 And the plane smashes into a mountain, and we're all fucking burnt, 442 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:54,360 but I live one second long enough 443 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,760 just to look over and see her totally fucked. 444 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,720 [laughter and applause] 445 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,400 [chuckles] Whatever gets you through, you know? 446 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:05,600 [laughter subsides] 447 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,680 So we got to San Francisco, and we went on a little day trip. 448 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,000 We went to this place called Sausalito, this lovely little harbor town. 449 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,720 We're walking around, sightseeing, 450 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,160 but about 11:00 a.m., 'cause of the jet lag, we were starving. 451 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,040 We thought, "Oh, we need lunch." 452 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,240 So we found this restaurant that was open at 11:00 a.m. 453 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,720 Empty, of course, which is my idea of a perfect restaurant. Empty. Right? 454 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,360 We sat by the window. We were looking out over the bay. 455 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,360 There was a sea lion bobbing round. A pelican landed. 456 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,160 The waiter brings our food. It's… Oh, it's… 457 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,720 Then suddenly, in all that peace and perfection, 458 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,600 out of the kitchen doors comes a busboy, 459 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,520 and he just stands in this empty restaurant, and he goes… 460 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:43,520 [snorts gruffly] 461 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,200 [audience groaning and laughing] 462 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:49,800 I looked at him. 463 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,440 I looked at Jane. Jane didn't even look up. 464 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,080 She just went, "Nothing we can do." Like that. 465 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,160 [laughter] 466 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,800 So I'm all alone, right? And the… And the sweat starts. I just get a sweat. 467 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,160 I go, "Okay, he's gonna do it again." Sure enough, he… [snorts] Like that. 468 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,840 I bang my fork against the plate, and I just look at him. 469 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,360 Jane goes, "He doesn't know why you're staring at him." 470 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,360 I go, "I want him to know. To go, 'Are you okay?'" 471 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,920 I'll go, "Not really." [snorts] "You keep doing that." 472 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,000 Jane goes, "For heaven's sake, he's a busboy. He's at work." 473 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,320 "Let's just eat and go." 474 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,800 So meal ruined, right? 475 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,360 And I wasn't allowed to do anything. 476 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,720 So this is how I got through the last ten minutes of that meal. 477 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,920 This is absolutely true. Right? I'm eating. 478 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,320 Every time he went… [snorts] …I went, "Cunt!" 479 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,320 [raucous laughter] 480 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,360 [scattered applause and whistles] 481 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,120 That is what you get. That is what you get. 482 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,880 [applause and whooping] 483 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,040 I did want this show to be more highbrow than this. 484 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:55,640 Joking aside, I think this is my most honest and confessional show so far. 485 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,640 Not in an Edinburgh-fringe type way, you know what I mean? 486 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,480 "Oh, my parents died, so I went all autistic." 487 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,040 -None of the… -[laughter] 488 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,400 None of that shit, right? 489 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,200 My parents did die, but I'm pretty sure I'm not autistic, 490 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,440 'cause once, someone gave me a Rubik's Cube, 491 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,480 and I put it straight in the fucking bin. 492 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,240 [laughter and applause] 493 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,360 [Ricky chuckles] 494 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,720 I think that is the test. 495 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,360 [laughter subsides] 496 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,800 No, um, it's called Mortality, but it's a… it's a positive show, 497 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,640 um, I think, and it's… 498 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,920 I wanna tell you some of the things I've learned, 499 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,560 what it's like to be me at this age, 'cause I'm getting old now. 500 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,680 See? That's silence, for the first year. 501 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,120 Up until this year, people would go, "You're not old." Now they go, "Go on." 502 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,640 Like that. It's like… In fact, they make it worse. 503 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,840 They say things like, "Oh yeah, but the good thing about getting old is 504 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,760 you don't care what people think about you." 505 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,920 Well, you should care a bit, because caring what people think about you 506 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,880 is what stops you walking around with shit down your trousers. 507 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,040 [laughter] 508 00:21:58,120 --> 00:21:59,480 "Oh, look at Grandad." 509 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:00,560 "Look, he…" 510 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,400 "He doesn't care what people think about him." 511 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,920 No, he's wanking at a wedding. He doesn't, no. 512 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 [laughter] 513 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,440 But, as I say, it's a… it's a positive show. 514 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,240 It's not all doom and gloom, getting old. There's good and bad to getting old. 515 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,160 There really is. There's good and bad to getting old. 516 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,200 For example, yes, there's more chance now 517 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,120 of me having a heart attack, having a stroke, getting cancer, 518 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,080 but much less chance now 519 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,120 of me ever being raped in prison. 520 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,520 -[laughter] -Yeah. See? 521 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,360 When I was a young man, I thought, "Fuck, I can never go to jail, 522 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,600 not with this cute ass." Right? 523 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,800 But now, I'd be pretty confident I'd be left alone. 524 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,480 You know, like, I'd go down the corridor, my first day, 525 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,320 with my little towel, whistling along. 526 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,280 They'd all come to the bars and go, "Ugh." You know what I mean? 527 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,840 I'd spend as much time as I wanted in the shower. 528 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,800 [laughter] 529 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,760 No one's even looking. Not a sniff, nothing. 530 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,120 The big danger for me, these days, bending over in a prison shower, 531 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,120 would be my back going, right? 532 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,280 And just crumpling to the floor and having to be helped to my bunk 533 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:07,320 by two big, gay rapists, and they just… 534 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,840 -[laughter] -…put me down naked and leave. 535 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,200 I go, "Lads, before you go, I've done my shoulder in." 536 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,320 "Can you… A little tug?" All right? 537 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:15,960 They go, "Nah." 538 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,120 I go, "What do you mean, 'no'? You're literally gay rapists." 539 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,200 They go, 540 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:21,600 "We're not monsters." 541 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,960 [laughter] 542 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,640 I'd also be more confident going to jail 'cause I've got a bit of cash. 543 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,880 I reckon I could buy my way out of danger. 544 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,520 Like, the first day, I'd go, "Right, who's in charge? Who's Mr. Big?" 545 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,520 And they'd go, "Chopper Harris, D-Wing." 546 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,600 So I go and see Chopper, and I go, "Right." 547 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,160 I said, "Right, I'm in for a year." 548 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,720 There's a million pounds waiting for you if you make sure no one beats me up, 549 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,880 steals my food, 550 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,640 no one so much as fingers me. 551 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,400 [scoffs, splutters] 552 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,480 [laughter] 553 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:53,200 I've never said that before. I've never… 554 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,480 [laughter] 555 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,000 Chopper would be like, "There's no foreplay in jail, mate." 556 00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,880 [laughter continues] 557 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,360 [Ricky chuckles] 558 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,000 [laughter subsides] 559 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,000 I'm at that age 560 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,920 where I'm glad we haven't got a Harold Shipman knocking round. 561 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,200 Do you know what I mean? 562 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,560 Those of you too young to know who Harold Shipman is, right, 563 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,160 he is our most prolific serial killer. Right? 564 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,520 He killed 300 people. He killed old people. That's my point. 565 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,200 He'd have his eye on me. "I'll give him a few more years." 566 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,680 And he was a doctor, right? 567 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,240 But the reason you haven't heard of him, right, 568 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:30,080 is because he never appears in those lists of the worst serial killers. 569 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,760 And he was, like, one of the worst ever. 570 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,600 But he… he didn't act like a serial killer. Right? 571 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,600 He was a GP. He was old school. 572 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,960 He had a little shirt and tie, little tweed jacket, 573 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,720 little beard, little glasses. 574 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,920 He'd do house visits. 575 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 He'd go round to see Edna, 85. 576 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,000 "You all right, Edna?" "Yeah." "Cup of tea?" "Yes, please." 577 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,280 And he'd make Edna a lovely cup of tea. 578 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:53,160 Then he'd just put in a lethal amount of opioids, right, 579 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,200 and he'd just give Edna the tea and watch her drink it 580 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,240 and fall asleep and die, and that was it. 581 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,680 He didn't even masturbate. 582 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,840 -You know? -[laughter] 583 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,040 Yes, it is a waste, sir. Yeah. 584 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,280 [laughter] 585 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,920 You… dirty bastard. 586 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:09,800 That's… 587 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,560 -And, um… -[laughter subsides] 588 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,120 They reckon he got the idea when he was a little lad. 589 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,280 Harold Shipman, little Harold Shipman, 590 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:20,720 he watched his mum, dying of lung cancer, being given morphine. 591 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,320 Something triggered in him. He thought, "I'll become a doctor, and I'll do this." 592 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,880 I don't know whether it means that he liked the way the morphine 593 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,320 put his mum out of pain, so these were like mercy killings. 594 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,200 Like, you know, reliving the kindness. Or the opposite. 595 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,120 He was jealous of old people who lived longer than his mum should have. 596 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,480 He was punishing them. I don't know. Doesn't matter. 597 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,320 Actually, it does matter, 'cause if you can really understand 598 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,880 why someone does something like that, 599 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,400 you might spot the signs in the future and stop a crime before it happens. 600 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,040 I always think that when there's a school shooting in America. 601 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,680 It's usually some emo, right, who… 602 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,680 [laughter] 603 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,360 …goes into a kindergarten, kills about 30 toddlers, 604 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,960 turns the gun on himself. 605 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,560 And all the eyewitnesses always say the same thing. 606 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,240 They go, "Oh, he was a loner." "He sat at the back." 607 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,240 "He was shy." "He was bullied." 608 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,240 Let's round those cunts up now. 609 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,480 [laughter] 610 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:10,680 Do you know what I mean? 611 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,920 It's like, go into a school, see who the bully's smashing up, right? 612 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,640 Go, "I'll take it from here, mate. Thank you." Right? 613 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,120 And drag that little dweeb off to Borstal or jail or something. 614 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,240 Go to the bully, "Go and find another." You know what I mean? He's doing a… 615 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,120 He's doing a great job. We need more bullies. 616 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,760 They're beating up future child killers. 617 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:32,680 Every… 618 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,000 -[snickers] -[audience laughs] 619 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,840 You get obsessed with crime and punishment as you get older. 620 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,520 I've always been pretty interested. 621 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,880 I studied philosophy at university, and a big part of that is morality. 622 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,560 And, uh, I've always been against the death penalty. 623 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,560 I was a young liberal, and I was really anti the death penalty. 624 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,720 And now I'm an old liberal, and I'm still anti the death penalty, 625 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,400 but now I love it when someone gets killed 626 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,400 doing something they shouldn't at the time. 627 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,960 Like, you see a bloke in Brazil. A hostage video. 628 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,080 He's got a young girl, a gun to her head. 629 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,200 He goes, "You won't take me alive, copper." 630 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,680 And then the marksman just takes out his brain stem. 631 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,040 Oh, I love that. 632 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:15,120 Pause. Rewind. All right? 633 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,280 [laughter] 634 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,760 Or when a bullfighter gets gored to death. 635 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,080 That is my favorite. Right? 636 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,880 Particularly when the horn goes up the arse. 637 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,320 -That… -[laughter] 638 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,320 I call that a "hole in Juan." 639 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,560 [laughter and applause] 640 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:31,800 Thank you. Um… 641 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,680 No, don't. [chuckles] 642 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:35,800 [laughter subsides] 643 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,800 Or those… those videos coming out of "lawless" New York. 644 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,320 You see 'em on Instagram and YouTube. It's someone with an iPhone. 645 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,720 It's got someone, he's knocking over this little convenience store. 646 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,560 He's got a fucking hoodie and a knife, and he's nicking all the booze. 647 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,760 He doesn't care he's being filmed. He's gonna get away with it. 648 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,400 Then, from behind the counter, comes a little 70-year-old Korean man 649 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,520 who batters him to death with a broom. 650 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,400 I fucking love that. 651 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,360 I can't wait to be a 70-year-old vigilante. 652 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,400 Just walking around Hampstead with a walking stick. 653 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,640 Oh, but it's a sword. 654 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,680 [laughter] 655 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,200 I'd paint it white, as well, to look even more vulnerable. Right? 656 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,080 Wear dark glasses like that. 657 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,360 I'd see a gang of youths. 658 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,400 I'd go over to 'em and go, "S… Oh, s… Excuse me, guys." 659 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,400 "Do you know where the Nike store is?" 660 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,440 "I wanna buy some Air Jordans with all this cash." 661 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,000 And as they go for it, "You little fucking cunts." 662 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,320 [laughter] 663 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,400 [applause] 664 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,160 [whooping] 665 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,480 But the death penalty's not like that, is it? 666 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:36,840 It's not in self-defense. 667 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,480 It's not in the heat of the moment. It's cold justice. You know? 668 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,360 Don't matter what you've done. You could've murdered people. 669 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,760 You stand trial. They find you guilty. 670 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,240 They put you on death row, 671 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,840 sometimes for 10, 15 years, 672 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,720 which seems unnecessarily cruel. 673 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,720 Then they murder you in front of witnesses. 674 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,080 And it's from the Bible. "An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." 675 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,680 The state says, "You murdered someone, so we're gonna murder you." 676 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,320 But if you rape and murder someone, 677 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,280 you still only just get murdered. 678 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,360 [laughter] 679 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,800 That's a loophole, innit? That's like… 680 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,680 That smacks of misogyny to me. 681 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,040 That's like the judge going, "The rape was free, but we're gonna…" 682 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,360 Just once, I want the judge to go, "You raped and murdered someone, 683 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,520 so you're gonna be taken from here to a place 684 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,720 where you'll be hung by the neck and raped." 685 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,320 "What, at the same time?" "Yes, yes." 686 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,200 "We've got loads of volunteers with dildos." Right? 687 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,320 So he sort of goes down like that, and he goes, "Agh! Fuck off! Fuck off!" 688 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,600 "You cunt. You cunt." 689 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,920 [laughter] 690 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:40,840 "Okay, he's dead." 691 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,200 "Yeah, I know. I know." 692 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,080 [chuckles] 693 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,800 [audience laughs and applauds] 694 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,240 [whooping] 695 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:49,560 [Ricky] Oh. 696 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,640 [applause continues, subsides] 697 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,160 It might work. 698 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,600 [audience chuckles] 699 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,280 But the longer you live, the grumpier you'll get. 700 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,520 It's not just me. It's gonna happen to all of you. 701 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,640 'Cause the longer you live, the more shit you see. 702 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,440 And you go, "Oh, fuck. This again. This again." 703 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,120 And the more burden you carry. 704 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,280 The older you get, the weaker you get, so the burden gets heavier. 705 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,040 And you go, "Oh God. This again." 706 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,040 You can't die nowadays. You know what I mean? 707 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,280 You go, "Oh, thank God. I'm dying." 708 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,680 Zzz! "Oh, fuck. I'm back." 709 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,280 -You know what I mean? -[laughter] 710 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,360 They can transplant every organ now. Whatever's got… 711 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,840 Transplant every organ. 712 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,000 Not your brain. That wouldn't make sense. You are your brain. 713 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,120 So that would be an everything-else transplant. 714 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,960 Wouldn't it? But I'd sign up for that. 715 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,320 I don't care about this. It's to get this around. 716 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,400 If I could leave a million pounds to science, so when I die… 717 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,440 Supposing I died, my body's crushed, killed instantly, but my head's intact. 718 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,640 They keep that on ice. Wait for a body donor. 719 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,840 Some poor bloke gets his head crushed. 720 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,080 Put my head on his body, and I'm back, aren't I? 721 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,000 Statistically, I will get a bigger penis as well, so… 722 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,280 [laughter] 723 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,960 The odds are in my favor there, trust me. 724 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,880 I wake up in the future, I see the scar, and I go, "Ooh, that's all right." 725 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:03,600 I go, "You've always wanted a big knob." "Yeah, I've always wanted a big knob." 726 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,120 I go, "Let's have a little bit of me time, shall we?" 727 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,920 I start, but every time I look down, 728 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,480 I go, "That's not my knob." You know what I mean? 729 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,560 I go, "Oh, that's not my knob." 730 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,280 -[laughter] -"Oh, that's not my knob." 731 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,880 It's not my hand either. Carry on. You know what I mean? 732 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,440 [laughter and applause] 733 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:23,600 [laughter subsides] 734 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,440 I was doing an interview a while ago. I don't think the journalist liked me. 735 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,200 He asked me this question. I thought it was rude. 736 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,680 So I gave a fake answer. Right? 737 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,360 He said, um, "So, uh, what have you got planned for your funeral?" 738 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,360 And I went, "Oh, um… Oh, I wanna be fed to the lions at London Zoo." 739 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,560 He went, "Really?" I went, "Yeah." 740 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,880 I want the… the zookeeper 741 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,360 to take out my big, fat, dead, naked, bloated body in a wheelbarrow. 742 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,360 Just dump it in the lion's den, doof, like that. 743 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,720 Loads of tourists going, "Is that the bloke from The Office?" Like that. 744 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:55,760 [laughter] 745 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,720 And then two big lions come out and just start eating me. 746 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,920 And lions, they start with the soft bits of the body, 747 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,440 to get inside to the rib cage. 748 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,520 So they'd probably get a testicle each, 'cause that'd be the easiest available… 749 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,040 By then, my testicles would be about a yard apart, so they'd be easy… 750 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,120 They'd just start eating towards me, 751 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,600 like Lady and the Tramp. 752 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,040 Really… [laughs] …romantic. 753 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,960 So I said that, as a joke, but he believed me. 754 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,400 So much so that when he was writing up the article, 755 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,320 he called London Zoo and asked them if that would be allowed. 756 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,480 And they said, "No, of course not." Right? 757 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,160 So when the article came out, the headline was 758 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,160 "London Zoo refuse Ricky's request to be fed to lions." 759 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,800 Like I'm a fucking psychopath. 760 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:40,920 [laughter] 761 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,880 My point is, you can't worry about what happens after you die. 762 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,520 Live your life. Let someone else worry. You're dead. You've done your bit. 763 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,120 I know some people who really are stressed about what happens after they die, 764 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,400 some religious people. 765 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,000 And they believe in heaven and hell and all that. 766 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,400 So now they're getting a bit, "Oh, have I been good enough?" 767 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,960 "I mean, heaven's great, but hell? Oh my God. What if I go to hell?" 768 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,320 And I go, "There's no hell. It's made up to frighten kids." 769 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:10,120 Like, my favorite horror film of all time is still the original Exorcist. Right? 770 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,320 First time I saw it, on VHS, right, I was blown away. 771 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,720 I watched it again straightaway. I loved it. 772 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,280 There's a bit in that that's meant to be really poignant. 773 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,880 And I laughed the first time I saw it, 774 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,120 because it was the idea of the devil being this crass and childish. 775 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,040 You know the bit. The little girl's possessed by the devil. 776 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,440 They're doing an exorcism. 777 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,240 And they're throwing holy water on her. She's hissing. 778 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,520 They're going, "The power of Christ compels you." 779 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,240 "The power of Christ compels you." 780 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,360 And at one point, the devil makes the girl turn her head round and he makes her say, 781 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,920 "Your mother sucks cocks in hell." Right? 782 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000 [laughter] 783 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,760 And the bloke, she says… He's devastated. He's… He's like… 784 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,240 'Cause he's thinking, "Oh, that's the real devil, 785 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,680 so he knows, so it's true." 786 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,440 "My poor mother's sucking cocks in hell." 787 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:56,640 [laughter] 788 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,760 If scientists actually found the devil… 789 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,120 I was wrong. There is a devil. They found the devil. 790 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,960 They… they tested him. It was peer-reviewed. 791 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,160 It won the Nobel Prize for fucking everything, 792 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,240 'cause it would be the greatest discovery of all time. 793 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,720 And I'd look at the science. I'd be mind-blown. 794 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,720 But I'd go, "You gotta follow the science, so, yeah, I believe in the devil." 795 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,080 It wouldn't even be belief. It would be knowledge. I'd wanna meet him. 796 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:23,480 If the devil actually existed, I'd wanna see it for my… 797 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,520 As long as I was safe. I don't know what makes you safe from the devil. 798 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,360 But if he existed, we'd find out, wouldn't we? We'd… 799 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,240 Like, vampires live forever, 800 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,400 but now we know a bit of garlic really fucks 'em up. 801 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,760 So we'd discover something. 802 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,640 Like if you put a devil in a cage with a sprig of parsley on top, 803 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:40,720 he's weak or something, right? 804 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,320 And I'd meet the devil, right, and I'd go for an aud… He'd be there. 805 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,400 I'd go, "Are you the devil?" He'd go, "Yeah." 806 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,320 Then he'd try to hurt my feelings. 807 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,160 And that was his best shot? 808 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:52,000 And he went, "Rick." I'd go, "What?" 809 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,480 He goes, "Your mother sucks cocks in hell." 810 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,280 I'd go, "Pfft. I don't care. I don't…" 811 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,880 One, she's dead. 812 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,880 Two, she was heterosexual. 813 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,800 Three, she never had her teeth in towards the end, so… 814 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,320 -[laughter] -No. 815 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,960 But it… But it's hell. 816 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,640 Think of all the terrible things that could be happening to her. 817 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:12,280 Being raped by red-hot pokers. Rats eating her eyes. 818 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,440 My mum gets cock duty. Go on, girl. 819 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,800 -That's gotta… That… -[laughter] 820 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,760 That has gotta be one of the better jobs in hell. 821 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,960 It's like… Terrible job on earth. 822 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,960 I've never sucked a cock in my life. I never will. 823 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,120 But if I died, and I woke… "Fuck. I'm in hell." 824 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,280 Tortured for eternity. 825 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,160 I'd see the first cock. I'd go, "I'm on this." 826 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:32,320 [laughter] 827 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,560 "Not a problem. Not a problem." 828 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,400 I'd be looking round, seeing people skinned alive, I'd go… 829 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,520 I'd chow down. 830 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,600 I'd fucking… Like that. I'd… 831 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,720 I'd be looking over at the big man, going, "I'm doing a great job. Leave me on this." 832 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,400 -[mutters] -[audience laughs] 833 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,280 And then… [chuckles] 834 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,760 There's the devil with a clipboard, looking a bit confused, thinking, 835 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,800 "No one's ever gone straight for the cock, but, uh…" 836 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,440 And he goes, "Okay. Carry on." I'll go… 837 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,520 What if he then went, "I mean, I did have you down for ironing"? 838 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,000 I'd go, "Fuck. I could…" 839 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,200 -[chuckles] -[audience laughs] 840 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:08,200 "Oh, I…" 841 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,920 "Oh, I could have been ironing." 842 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,680 [laughter continues] 843 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,080 [Ricky chuckles] 844 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,240 Who's getting their cock sucked in hell? That's what I wanna know. 845 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,480 'Cause we're there for punishment, and that's a little treat. 846 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:27,000 It's like, I'd be there, right, thinking… Feeling a bit smug. Right? 847 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,760 I'm thinking, "This is great." Not great, but I'd be… 848 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,000 [laughter] 849 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,480 But the devil's a trickster. 850 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,280 One day, I'd go, "I wonder whose cock this is." I look up. 851 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,840 "Oh, it's fucking Hitler." 852 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,400 -"I'm fucking…" -[laughter] 853 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,520 "I'm fucking sucking Hitler's cock." 854 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,600 How is this all right, to do this in public? 855 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,040 Because if I followed one of you home tonight 856 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,840 and I shouted through your letterbox, "Sucking fucking Hitler's cock in hell," 857 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,080 you'd call the police. 858 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,400 -But you've paid to hear me say this shit. -[laughter] 859 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,200 -[applause] -Fucking hell. 860 00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,480 [Ricky groans] 861 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,560 -[applause continues] -[Ricky groans] 862 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:07,040 [cheering and whistling] 863 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:08,960 [applause subsides] 864 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,760 I'll tell you what's very popular, um, uh, in England at the moment, 865 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,960 and in America, particularly California. 866 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,600 Um, mental illness. 867 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,320 Oh, it's taken off. It's taken off a treat. 868 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,360 When… when I was at school, you were either thick or clever, 869 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,400 normal or mental, right? 870 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,160 Now there's, like, a thousand new mentals. Right? 871 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:31,920 It used to be a stigma. People would go, "I'm not mental." 872 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,120 Now people go, "I'm mental." You know? They wanna… "I'm mental." 873 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,320 It's like, everyone I know in media is ADHD. 874 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,360 They go, "I'm ADHD." "I'm ADHD." "Yeah, so am I. I'm ADHD." 875 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,920 "Take the test?" "Yeah, five times." 876 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,920 "Passed it on the fifth." "Oh, well done." Right? 877 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,360 And it's like… They… "I'm writing a song about it." 878 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,320 "I'm writing a poem." "I'm writing a book." 879 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:52,760 "Oh, well done. Yeah." 880 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,320 And they brag about it. They put it in their CV and in their… 881 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:57,560 It's got "disorder" in it. 882 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,200 When did we start bragging about having a disorder? 883 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,200 Twenty years ago, you wouldn't have got given a business card, 884 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,840 and it said, "Ron Pike, anal warts." 885 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,480 -You know, just… -[laughter] 886 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,560 Keep it to yourself. No one cares. 887 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,480 I think… I think the new pandemic amongst the youth 888 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,600 is gonna be fear and anxiety, 889 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,120 'cause now we've had a whole generation who grew up with social media. 890 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,400 Instant gratification. 891 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,840 Doesn't build character. They're not socialized properly. 892 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,840 They can't deal face-to-face with people 893 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,720 'cause they're used to hiding behind an identity and an avatar. 894 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,960 And now they've got teachers and parents enabling their mental illness, 895 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,080 as opposed to trying to snap 'em out of it. 896 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,800 Now they fear the thing they once loved. They're worried about the Internet and AI. 897 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,440 Young people are really worried about artificial intelligence. 898 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,160 And I say this about AI. 899 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,480 If it starts becoming a burden, switch it off, right? 900 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,520 Like we did Nan. 901 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,120 -And… -[laughter] 902 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,400 Another big fear amongst the youth is climate change. 903 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,160 They're really worried about global warming. 904 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,160 I looked into it, and if the polar ice caps completely melt, 905 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:06,160 the sea level will go up about 60 meters around the world. 906 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,720 So all coastal areas will be affected a bit, 907 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,480 but the real devastation, the real loss of life, 908 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,440 will be in places like China and India. 909 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,080 So relax. It's… 910 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,760 [laughter] 911 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:19,600 It's fine. 912 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,120 But we, um… We all suffer from a bit of mental illness. 913 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,960 We're all on the spectrum, aren't we? All got a bit of OCD or anxiety. 914 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:29,960 Like, I'm a hypochondriac, right? 915 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,440 Every morning, I wake up and I think, "What's wrong?" 916 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,000 I go, "What's that? That wasn't there yesterday." 917 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,600 "That wasn't… What's that?" 918 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,680 And I google it. I think, "What could…" And I catastrophize as well. 919 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,840 So I google it, and the first five or six I'm fine with. 920 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,160 Like, it goes, "Could be anxiety." "Yeah, could be." 921 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:47,760 "Lack of sleep." "I didn't sleep well." 922 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,200 "Lack of fiber." "I'll have more." "Lack of vitamin B." "I'll get a…" 923 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,240 I keep pushing, and it goes, "Could be cancer." 924 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,320 I go, "It's cancer. It's cancer." Like that. 925 00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,360 Once I came out of the bathroom and went, "Jane, I think I've got bowel cancer." 926 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,880 She went, "We had beetroot last night." I go, "Oh yeah. Cheers." 927 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,680 -[audience laughs] -[snickers] 928 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,840 [Ricky chuckles] 929 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,200 [laughter subsides] 930 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,640 [Ricky] I wanna end with a couple of true stories, if I may. Um… 931 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,320 And, uh, as I said, 932 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,360 I think this is my most honest and confessional show so far, 933 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,800 so I wanna talk about something I haven't talked about before, 934 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,440 and that's to give you a glimpse behind the curtain 935 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,160 of the Golden Globes. 936 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:27,240 And, um… 937 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,320 -[cheering] -Thank you. I, uh… 938 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:30,880 [audience whistling] 939 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,600 I last hosted the Golden Globes in 2020. 940 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,760 It was the fifth time over a ten-year period. 941 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,200 I liked 'em more and more. The last one was my favorite. 942 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,000 'Cause the world changed in that ten years. 943 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,680 The first time I hosted 'em in, like, 2010, 944 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,840 the press of America fucking… they hated me. 945 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,840 "Who is this annoying Brit, insulting the most important people on the planet?" 946 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,800 By the last time I hosted, they were like, "Yeah, go on, fuck 'em. Fuck 'em." 947 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,280 [laughter] 948 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,760 Because ordinary people had got sick and tired 949 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,640 of being lectured by these multi-millionaire… 950 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:05,240 Nothing wrong with that. These… 951 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:06,520 [laughter] 952 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,160 [chuckles] …liberal-elite entertainers 953 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:11,520 telling them how to vote and how to recycle, 954 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,560 when everyone knew they were getting free jet rides to Pedo Island. 955 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,120 So it… it really hit the zeitgeist. 956 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,160 It was always the same deal. "Do you wanna host?" 957 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:20,440 I said, "Yeah, I'll host." 958 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,360 "But I'm gonna write all my own jokes," which was unheard of. 959 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,160 "I'm gonna write my own jokes, and I'm not gonna rehearse, 960 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,520 so you can't hear the jokes beforehand, and you can't cancel any." 961 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:30,880 And they let me do that. 962 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,960 I did have to show a lawyer the jokes about an hour before 963 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,520 to make sure I hadn't broken any laws. 964 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:36,840 I never had. I know the law. 965 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,600 Sometimes the lawyer would go, "Are you sure you wanna say that?" 966 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,720 And I'd go, "Is it legal?" They'd go, "Yep, technically." 967 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:44,960 I'd go, "Let's do it." 968 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,160 I've never had a joke stopped by the Golden Globes. 969 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,040 That says something about them, to be fair. 970 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,680 -So, um, anyway… -[applause] 971 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,080 Thank you, um… 972 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,800 [cheering and applause] 973 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,280 This last time, they said, 974 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,440 "Oh, you've gotta see the lawyer the day before now." 975 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:00,680 I went, "Okay, great." 976 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,240 So I was driven to the Beverly Hills Center, 977 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,680 and they're all setting up. 978 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,080 The photos of the A-listers are all in their chairs. 979 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,320 I go, "Oh, there's Brad. There's Leo. There's Bob." All this, right? 980 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:15,160 And this big guard showed me to this room. He opened the door and shut it behind me. 981 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:19,200 And I looked, and there were, suddenly, ten lawyers in suits. Uh… 982 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,720 It was usually, like, this middle-aged woman in a jumper. 983 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,560 And I thought, "What the fuck's happened?" I think… [gasps] 984 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,240 "Is it 'cause it's my last time? They're making sure I don't say anything…" 985 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,760 And they were… they were there, and I went, "Hi." They went, "Hi." 986 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,880 I said, "Shall I do the monologue?" They went, "Please." 987 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,240 Tough crowd, right? 988 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:38,880 [laughter] 989 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,320 So I had the monologue. 990 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,480 And I was going through it. It was, like, seven or eight minutes long. 991 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,400 So I was doing the jokes, and after each joke, I sort of looked up, 992 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,600 and they were going like that, making notes. 993 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,000 A couple of the younger ones were going… [snickers] Like that. 994 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,680 And, uh, I got to the end, and I went, "Uh, that's it." 995 00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,760 And they went, "Uh, good." 996 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,640 I went, "Oh, great." They went, "Yeah." 997 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:01,840 And then the head lawyer, 998 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,280 he was about 60 years old, he had white hair, 999 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,440 he went, "Oh yes, there was one thing." 1000 00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,960 Now, I did this joke. I don't know if you remember. 1001 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,560 Uh, it went, "The world got to see James Corden as a fat pussy." 1002 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,640 [laughter] 1003 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,440 "He was also in the movie Cats, but no one saw that." 1004 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,680 -[laughter] -And it goes on. 1005 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,960 At one point, I go, "But Dame Judi Dench 1006 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,960 said it was the role she was born to play." 1007 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,160 "'Cause she loves nothing better than plonking herself down on the carpet, 1008 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:30,080 lifting her back leg, and licking her own minge." 1009 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,760 [laughter] 1010 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,200 So this lawyer went… 1011 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,360 He said, um… This is all true, by the way. 1012 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,520 He went, "When you say James Corden is a fat pussy, 1013 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,760 that's just referring to his role in Cats, right?" 1014 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,560 I went, "Yeah." 1015 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,120 [laughter] 1016 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,440 "Yeah, definitely." Like that. 1017 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,960 And he went, "Okay, great." 1018 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,160 -[laughter] -[snickers] I thought, "This is easy." 1019 00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:58,520 You know? It's, uh… 1020 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,440 I wanted to go, "Call yourself a lawyer?" Right? 1021 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,320 And that was it. And they went, "Have a great show," and I left. 1022 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:06,520 And as I was leaving, 1023 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,160 I saw one of the other lawyers lean in and show this head lawyer his iPhone. 1024 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:11,880 And the head lawyer went, "Oh yeah." 1025 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,960 He went, "Sorry, Ricky. Can you come back?" 1026 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,320 So I'm there. I went, "Yeah." So he had the phone there. 1027 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,720 They'd looked up the word "minge." 1028 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,760 [laughter] 1029 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,320 I thought I'd gotten away with it. It's now like I'm getting told off. 1030 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,440 And the head lawyer said, "It says here that the word 'minge' 1031 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,720 is a derogatory term for female genitalia." 1032 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,280 I went, "Well, yeah, it's a… a slang word for 'vagina' in England." 1033 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:36,360 "You don't use it here." 1034 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,120 He went, "No, we don't, but we go out around the world, 1035 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,240 and with due diligence, now we know it's derogatory, 1036 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,760 we'll have to bleep that word live." 1037 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,320 I went, "Don't bleep the word. People at home won't know what I've said." 1038 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,640 "It'll ruin…" I said, "It's literally the punchline." 1039 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,640 He said, "If it's derogatory, we have to." 1040 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,960 I said, "Well, what word could I use that you wouldn't bleep?" 1041 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,520 And he went, "Um, well, you could say 'vagina.'" 1042 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:02,200 I went, "I'm not saying 'vagina.'" Right? Nothing funny about… It's so clinical. 1043 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,080 I was thinking of Judi Dench at home going, 1044 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,880 "Why is he talking about my actual vagina?" Right? 1045 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:07,800 [laughter] 1046 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:12,480 I said, "'Minge' isn't like that. It's like… It's not so specific." 1047 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,360 'Cause "vagina" is so… 1048 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,520 "Where's your vagina?" "There." Right? 1049 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:17,640 [laughter] 1050 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:18,680 "Where's your minge?" 1051 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,480 "There." It's like… 1052 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:21,680 [laughter] 1053 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,520 One of the younger lawyers went, "What about 'box'?" 1054 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,600 I went, "I'm not fucking saying 'box.'" "Imagine her licking her own box." 1055 00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,960 I said, "'Minge' is perfect." I said, "People won't know what…" 1056 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,120 "If they're American, they won't know… It's not offensive. It's like…" 1057 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,400 I said, um, 1058 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,760 "Kids use the word in England." [chuckles] 1059 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,560 [laughter] 1060 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,560 Right? They weren't having it. 1061 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:44,960 So I went… I said, 1062 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,080 "What about 'flange'?" Right? 1063 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,000 So they looked up the word "flange." Right? 1064 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,760 He went, "That'd just be confusing, 1065 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,200 'cause in America, a flange is a part of a sink unit." 1066 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,360 I went, "Oh, well…" 1067 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,080 I said, "Please let me say 'minge' and don't bleep it." 1068 00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,520 I was really rooting for "minge," right? 1069 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,720 It was like 12 Angry Men. I was going, "No one's leaving till I can say 'minge.'" 1070 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:06,840 [laughter] 1071 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,800 After about ten minutes, I wore them down. 1072 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,200 Whatever they said, "That won't work." I was going, "Please." 1073 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,600 I said, "I'll write the… You won't get any complaints." All this. 1074 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,920 And eventually, the head lawyer went, "Okay, you can say 'minge.'" 1075 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,880 I went, "You won't bleep it?" He went, "No." 1076 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,160 I went, "You promise?" He went, "Yes." And I left. I knew they would. 1077 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:25,680 And they fucking did, right? 1078 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,840 So when I said "minge," 1079 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,200 I pointed. 1080 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,000 [laughter] 1081 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,080 [applause] 1082 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,200 The most frequently asked question I get about the Golden Globes is always, 1083 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,760 "Was someone so angry about what you said, they came up to you afterwards…" 1084 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,120 I always go, "Oh God, no." 1085 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,760 I wouldn't even say if that had happened, 'cause I don't really… 1086 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,440 I don't like gossip, to be honest. Right? Um… 1087 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,720 There was one guy I thought took it the wrong way, right? 1088 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,600 It wasn't a bad… No. 1089 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,080 The cameras went to him, and I'm not in control of the cameras. 1090 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:03,760 He was caught in the headlights. It was Elton John, right? 1091 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:08,080 But, um, it wasn't a bad joke. I was introducing Madonna, okay? 1092 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,840 And I later found out that him and Madonna were in this feud 1093 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,520 and he hated being mentioned in the same sentence as her. 1094 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,760 But I didn't know at the time. I was confused. 1095 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,440 And it wasn't part of the monologue, but I'm there for, like, three hours, 1096 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,120 and now and again, the stage manager would go, 1097 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,120 "You wanna introduce so-and-so?" I'd go, "Yeah." 1098 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,600 I'd come out, and I either do it straight or I ad-lib. 1099 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,840 And this was a little ad-lib, 'cause I saw Elton in the front row. 1100 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,480 Uh, so this was the joke. I came out, and I said, 1101 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,760 "Uh, our next presenter is the Queen of Pop." 1102 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,000 "Not you, Elton. Sit down." Right? 1103 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,040 [laughter] 1104 00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,000 It went to him. He went… [mimics fake laugh] 1105 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:43,760 And I was going, "Oh, fuck. He hated that." 1106 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,360 And I was thinking, "Why has he… Oh God. Does he think I'm homophobic?" 1107 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,680 "I'm not homophobic." There's all this in my head. 1108 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,760 Then I thought, "He must have heard worse." Right? 1109 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,520 In the 1980s, right, when Elton John was in the closet… 1110 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,440 He wasn't out. He was married to a woman. Right? 1111 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,720 He was also chairman of Watford Football Club. 1112 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,600 And he and his then wife would go along and watch Watford play, 1113 00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,600 and the entire crowd would sing, 1114 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,400 "Don't bend down when Elton's around or you might get a willy up your arse." 1115 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,240 [laughter] 1116 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,440 Which puts my little quip into perspective, doesn't it? 1117 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,880 I don't know how football fans know how to start at the right time, 1118 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:22,880 in the same key. 1119 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,440 Do they hand out sheet music before a fucking… 1120 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,960 We're doing "Willy Up The Arse" in C. 1121 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:28,880 [laughter] 1122 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,520 Jeff's doing a solo. It's like… And… 1123 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,720 What they do, they get a traditional tune, so everyone knows it, 1124 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:35,720 and change the lyrics. 1125 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,200 Some genius changes the lyrics, right, 1126 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:42,880 to be as offensive about someone or something or somewhere or whatever. 1127 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,920 So the tune they used to use, I remember it, 1128 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,320 it was that old Cockney knees-up song. 1129 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,360 ♪ My old man said follow the van ♪ 1130 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,280 ♪ And don't dillydally on the way ♪ 1131 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,680 Do you know that one? Remember the term "dillydally"? 1132 00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,760 They use it very creatively in their version, right? 1133 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,760 So this was their lyric. It was the '80s. 1134 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,520 It's not politically correct. I apologize. 1135 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,520 They're football hooligans. What are you gonna do? 1136 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,120 So let's… let's analyze their genius lyrics, right? 1137 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:10,920 This is what they used to sing. 1138 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,880 ♪ Don't bend down when Elton's around ♪ 1139 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,280 ♪ Or you might get a willy up your arse ♪ 1140 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:17,760 I mean, you might. 1141 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,840 -[laughter] -I dunno. Not necessarily his. 1142 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:24,320 But, you know, mathematicians amongst you would have to go, "There's a slight…" 1143 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,880 Like, if a thousand people bent down when Elton was around, 1144 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,280 one of 'em might randomly… 1145 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,720 Someone might come off a bicycle and go, "Sorry." 1146 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,440 And they're like, "Oh, fuck." 1147 00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,120 And the scientists would go, "One." Do you know what I mean? There's a slight… 1148 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,840 Also, "When Elton's around." That's ambiguous. That could fit… 1149 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,920 Like, you could have two gentlemen having anal sex in a hotel room. 1150 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:46,960 Then, the next day, 1151 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,200 they find out that Elton John was staying in the next room. 1152 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,920 They go, "Oh, I got a willy up the arse when Elton was around." You know? 1153 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:54,920 [laughter] 1154 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,640 I'll give 'em that. Anyway. 1155 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,080 ♪ Don't bend down when Elton's around Or you might get a willy up your arse ♪ 1156 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,200 ♪ He has the nerve to call us "dear" ♪ 1157 00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,560 ♪ We all know he's a fucking queer… ♪ 1158 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,360 -Sorry. Right? -[laughter] 1159 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:08,400 Then it goes… 1160 00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:09,800 ♪ He dallies and dillies… ♪ 1161 00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,240 They've reversed it. Why? 1162 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:12,520 ♪ He dallies and dillies ♪ 1163 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,320 ♪ He plays with people's willies… ♪ 1164 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:15,800 [laughter] 1165 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,040 Again, I don't know what "play with" means in this context. 1166 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,120 It could be like… [imitates car engine] It could be anything, couldn't it? 1167 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:23,080 [laughter] 1168 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,280 [imitates car engine] "I thought you were gonna suck it." "No." 1169 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:27,440 [laughter] 1170 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,920 ♪ He dallies and dillies He plays with people's willies ♪ 1171 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,480 ♪ He's up every arse in town ♪ 1172 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,120 I'd stop 'em there. I'd go, "No." That is… That is provably false. 1173 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,520 He's not up every arse in town, is he? 1174 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,760 We can prove that. Right? Take a small town. Take Watford. 1175 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,400 120,000 people. 1176 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,400 He is not up 120,000 arses, is he? 1177 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:50,080 I mean, half of them are women, so 60,000 tops. Right? 1178 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,880 I don't think he's been up 60,000. If he has, good luck to him. 1179 00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,120 But that's not my point. This is my point. 1180 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,320 It… What did his then wife think of that? 1181 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,880 'Cause he's in the closet, right? It… He's… You know? 1182 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,200 And she's just married Elton John. She couldn't be… She's in love. 1183 00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,200 She's so proud of him. Elton John. And he's chairman of Watford. 1184 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,200 She goes, "I'm married to Elton John, the pop star." 1185 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,160 And then the entire crowd sing, 1186 00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:16,360 "Don't bend down when Elton's around or you might get a willy up your arse." 1187 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,160 She must have gone, "Why are they singing that, Elton?" 1188 00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:21,800 And he goes, "I don't fucking know. Watch the game." 1189 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,360 You know what I mean? It must have been awkward. 1190 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:29,800 That's nearly it for me, but I've just… 1191 00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,360 I said earlier, I've never had a joke stopped by the Golden Globes. 1192 00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:35,720 That is absolutely true, 1193 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,000 but I've just remembered a joke that I stopped myself, 1194 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,840 'cause I bottled it a bit, and I wanna… 1195 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,320 I think I was being overcautious. I wanna share it with you. 1196 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,160 So I got the chance to introduce Jason Momoa. 1197 00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:50,440 Do you know who Jason Momoa is? Yeah, right? 1198 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,160 So I thought the meta joke would be to show my hypocrisy and my cowardice. 1199 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,880 Like, I… I… I'm okay to slag off actors. Who's scared of actors? 1200 00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,720 But when it comes to a big dude, I'm not so brave. 1201 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:02,880 So I was gonna go, 1202 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,800 "I've got nothing bad to say about our next presenter, 1203 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,000 'cause he's got a cock like a baby's arm," right? 1204 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,880 [laughter] 1205 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,160 I told my mate I was gonna do that, and my mate went… 1206 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:15,480 [inhales] "Do you think people'll think that's racist?" 1207 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,040 I went, "Why is it racist?" 1208 00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,600 He went, "Well, 'cause he's a person of color, and…" 1209 00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:21,240 I went, "It's nothing to do with that." 1210 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,240 "It's to do with the fact that he's so big 1211 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,160 that he'd probably have a cock like a baby's arm, right?" 1212 00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,840 So I didn't do it, and I had a great follow-up. 1213 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,000 I'll tell you the whole thing. This is what I was gonna do. 1214 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,400 Right, so I go out and go, 1215 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,160 "I've got nothing bad to say about our next presenter 1216 00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:40,560 'cause he's got a cock like a baby's arm." 1217 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:41,880 "Unlike Peter Dinklage, 1218 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,920 who's got an arm like a baby's cock." 1219 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,760 [laughter] 1220 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,040 [applause and cheering] 1221 00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,200 It's great to hear this sort of laughter again. 1222 00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,520 You probably don't notice it as much as comedians, 1223 00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,400 but we've had a really weird ten years, 1224 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,640 where we're really second-guessing, going, "Is that okay?" 1225 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,560 Someone… People could find anything offensive. 1226 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,560 But we pushed back, and we won, so fuck 'em. 1227 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,080 -Um… -[cheering] 1228 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,360 [applause and whistling] 1229 00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:23,520 Until the next time. They haven't gone. They're just licking their wounds. 1230 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,520 They'll be back with something madder. 1231 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,280 But remember who it is next time. 1232 00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:31,680 It's always, like, these sort of educated, middle-class, 1233 00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:36,080 privileged, um, elitist sort of people telling ordinary working-class people 1234 00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,200 what they can and can't do and say and laugh at, 1235 00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,320 not realizing how important comedy is to ordinary people. 1236 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,720 When I was a kid growing up in Reading with nothing, 1237 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,360 humor was like a lifesaver. 1238 00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:49,200 It was like a superpower, right? 1239 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,960 Not a real one, like flight, but you know what I mean? 1240 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:53,920 You ask anyone their superpower, 1241 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,280 I reckon seven out of ten will say "flight," 1242 00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,280 and three will go "super strength" or something, which is great. 1243 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,880 If you're a superhero, flying around, being super strong, great. 1244 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:03,960 But sooner or later, 1245 00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,840 a supervillain will go, "Look at that cunt. I'm gonna…" 1246 00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:07,840 [laughter] 1247 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,200 "I'm gonna get him and murder him." Right? 1248 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,120 My superpower, they wouldn't even know it was me doing it. 1249 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,640 They wouldn't even know there was a superpower being used. 1250 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:17,200 It would get you out of any situation. 1251 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:21,640 My superpower would be the ability to make anyone instantly 1252 00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:22,560 shit themselves. 1253 00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,080 [laughter] 1254 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,200 You're getting mugged at knifepoint. They go, "Give me your wallet." 1255 00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,560 You just go… They go, "Fuck." 1256 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:30,880 "Oh, fuck." 1257 00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:32,800 Game over. It's game over. 1258 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,840 [laughter and applause] 1259 00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,040 That's another thing I'm very proud of. 1260 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,560 I can honestly say, in all my 64 years, 1261 00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,440 I have never shat myself once, so, um… 1262 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,920 -[cheering and applause] -No, don't applaud. No. 1263 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,000 [laughs] No! Right. 1264 00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:53,960 Yeah. [exhales] 1265 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,160 "Why do you like London so much, Rick?" 1266 00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:58,920 'Cause you get a round of applause for not shitting yourself. 1267 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,280 -[laughter] -[man cheers] 1268 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:01,280 Right. 1269 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,360 But that's the next phase now. The next… 1270 00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,000 I reckon it's the next ten years that I will… 1271 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,720 But as of now, my arsehole has never let me down. 1272 00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,840 Very underrated, the human arsehole. 1273 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,000 Everyone goes, "The human brain, the greatest computer known to man." 1274 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,520 "Oh, the human liver can regenerate itself." 1275 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,200 Your arsehole is working 24-7. 1276 00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,920 Even when you're asleep, it's like that. "You're not coming out." 1277 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,840 "You're not coming out. You're not coming out." 1278 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,040 [laughter] 1279 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,120 "No." 1280 00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:32,480 "You're not coming out. And you're not coming in." 1281 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,560 [laughter] 1282 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,880 [cheering and applause] 1283 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:38,720 [chuckles] 1284 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,400 'Cause it's like… it's like a sewer in there, innit? 1285 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,400 But you've got a lovely little manhole cover. 1286 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,000 Think of that in real life. Walking along a pavement. 1287 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,960 If that burst… And you know what's in a sewer, don't you? 1288 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,080 Piss and shit 1289 00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:56,800 and cum and… 1290 00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:57,960 [laughter] 1291 00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,880 …dead goldfish. 1292 00:55:59,960 --> 00:56:01,080 [laughter] 1293 00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,080 -Fetuses. -[groaning] 1294 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:04,720 In China. 1295 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:05,840 Just the… 1296 00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,080 Just the girl ones. Relax. Just… 1297 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,160 -[chuckles] -[laughter] 1298 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,160 I'm at that age now as well, 'cause I'm in entertainment, 1299 00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:19,200 people say, "Are you gonna have a facelift?" 1300 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:20,520 I go, "No." 1301 00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:24,000 Have you seen facelifts? They're still just that. You know? 1302 00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,600 You go to the doctor, and the doctor goes, "Do you wanna look old or Chinese?" 1303 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:28,880 -It's like… -[laughter] 1304 00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,160 Nothing wrong with looking Chinese, if you're Chinese. 1305 00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:34,360 If you're not Chinese, it's a bit weird. 1306 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,080 It's offensive. Why is that allowed? 1307 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,080 You're not allowed to black up. Why can you do that? 1308 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:40,000 [laughter] 1309 00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:43,880 Maybe there are terms and conditions to make sure you're never that racist. 1310 00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,200 The doctor goes, "Right, we've done the eyes, 1311 00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,680 but never leave the house in a little lampshade because…" [snickers] 1312 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,760 [laughter] 1313 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,400 [chuckles] Oh, so childish. 1314 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,040 It's so childish. 1315 00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:02,600 I hope you agree it was a positive show. It wasn't about death. It was about life. 1316 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,480 Some people are so worried about dying, they forget to live. 1317 00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,160 Some people are so scared to do stuff. They go, "No, that's dangerous." 1318 00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:12,320 All the most fun things are dangerous. Roads are dangerous. 1319 00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,080 Alcohol is dangerous. Alcohol is a poison. 1320 00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,240 I should know. I sell it. Dutch Barn. 1321 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,960 -Right, so… Yes. -[laughter] 1322 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:23,120 Like, alcohol gives you brain disease, liver disease, kidney disease, 1323 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,000 heart disease, mental illness, 1324 00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,960 but it does loosen you up at parties, so… 1325 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,280 [laughter] 1326 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,520 Think of all the babies born through alcohol. Yeah. 1327 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,960 Many of them deformed if the mother carried on drinking. 1328 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,520 But the good thing about being born deformed is, 1329 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,280 um, you… [chuckles] 1330 00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,320 -[laughter] -Yeah. 1331 00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:43,480 Hear me out. 1332 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:46,640 [chuckles] The good thing about being born deformed is 1333 00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,360 you can start drinking at a much younger age 1334 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,280 and no one gives you… You know? 1335 00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,640 You see a normal kid drinking, you go, "You little bastard." 1336 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,840 You see a deformed kid drinking, you go, "Yeah, go on." You know? 1337 00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:57,920 You know what I mean? 1338 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,320 You're eight or nine. You've had 27 painful operations. 1339 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:02,640 You've met Olly Murs. 1340 00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:04,720 Have a drink, you know? 1341 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,280 [laughter] 1342 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:07,680 [chuckles] Well… 1343 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,040 [scattered clapping] 1344 00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,760 As you can see, I've run out of quality material, um… 1345 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:12,880 [laughter] 1346 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,400 But you've been absolutely amazing. Thank you and good night. 1347 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,200 [cheering and applause] 1348 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,280 [whistling] 1349 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,880 [whooping] 1350 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,000 [cheering and applause continues] 1351 00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,080 [cheering and applause subsides] 1352 00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,160 [audience chatters indistinctly]