Ricky Gervais On Teaching Morals To Children | BEST OF Politics | Universal Comedy

Taken from his 2nd special POLITICS, the recent host of the 2020 Golden Globes and creator of The Office, Extras and AfterLife Ricky Gervais discusses sweatshops in third world countries, the fable of the two mice, nursery rhymes and everyone's favourite idiot Karl Pilkington

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[Skirk]

My 2-year-old climbs on everything and constantly falls down, I tried to teach him the Humpty Dumpty story. And then next time he climbed up on something I said be careful and get down all you'll end up like Humpty Dumpty. He said "I'm not an egg daddy"

[taskendeer]

That reveal of him getting the cheap jacket was fucking brilliant, comedic timing on point!

[carlthehatllama]

Humpty dumpty was actually a story about a huge cannon which fell off a castle wall and it was so heavy that all the kings horses and all the kings men couldnt put it back on the wall, humpty dumpty was never an egg until childrens picture books made him one

[irrelevantdoughnut]

"How's the baby?"
"It's an egg."

[Emperor_Palpatine_]

“Never tell the same lie twice”

-Garak, Deepspace 9

[andrewjohnson]

The fact that people think that the £150 suit wasn’t made in the exact same sweat shop is part of the problem.

[kurtjohnson]

Ricky has the quite unique ability to be at once devastatingly funny, and present a well-considered, incisive world view on a range of issues. LOVE this guy.

[spornge]

The Moral of Jack and Jill is a valid point.

[boogoodie]

God I love Ricky, he’s one in a billion. He never fails to make me laugh. 😂

[jonathanseibert]

For some reason I really love how Ricky laughs when he recounts something Karl has said to him. You can seriously tell he legitimately loves the guy

An idiot abroad was fantastic

[sparks]

Ricky is so talented. I hope he stays at it. We need comedy now more than ever. The world’s gone mad and we need comedy for our sanity.

[annawimpey]

I was taught that these old poems and rhymes were satirical jabs at the royals, politics and news of the day using moral lessons. Sung by traveling minstrals, discovering the meanings behind these nursery songs are facinating.

[debrabolton]

Ricky Gervais is a comic genius. One of my favs.

[nathanbiller]

Until listening to this, I legitimately thought Jack and Jill were brother and sister

[paulaisomura]

Many years ago there was a fellow named Johnny Standley, who did a hilarious comedy routine all about Little Bo Peep. It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard for the time. Ricky has resurrected the genre beautifully with his take on other nursery rhymes, albeit with a different vocabulary. Hysterical.

[majiel]

"What if we had been invaded by France that day?" Was hilarious but that jump he did when he said are you mental was the best

[nathant]

Karl pilkington is the best thing to happen to British comedy since Ricky Gervais

[austinaxley]

Morale is what gets low after a team suffers a devastating loss.

Moral is what you teach to a child with a story like the boy who cried wolf.

[andysebok]

Ricky's the best, hands down. Clever and witty like no one else,

[mohmoony]

I still remember my little niece (smart kid) asking what the horses were going to do for an egg, my brother said they were for the glue part to put him back together. I laughed my butt off, she didn't get it (thank goodness).