I remember watching the 11 O Clock show on a 14 inch solavox tv in my bedroom, during a pretty sad time in my life as a 20 year old. This, and "Two Pints of Lager" were a couple of shows that bought me a lot of comfort. Not forgetting Ali G started on this show also. Thanks for the upload!
@@gwauk205 my previous comment was deleted !!! But I said check his social media , he is rude and disrespectful. He was sacked for such behavior recently.
I remember coming home from work (I did a 2-10 shift), and it was the first time I'd seen Ricky Gervais and I thought he was the funniest thing ever. Fair paly to the fella, he's done all right for himself.
He really wasn't that funny. He just swore a lot which was impactful back then. And life peaked in the mid-90s. You can see it in music. Grunge music was conclusion of 50 years of guitar music, and that died in 1994 when Kurt Cobain (was) checked out.
I love how obscure your avatar is. It's the scene from the Directors Cut of T2 where he's being taught to smile, right? God I wish they would find a cure for autism already.
Yeah I've seen quite a few, Falklands, autism kid, dawn french. Comedians trying to break through at the time wrote jokes for sketch shows and later combined them into a whole stand up thing. Back in the day there was no youtube. So the 100,000 people who watched that variety show that night only saw the joke, where the rest if us caught it when they finally had the investment to do a live show
@@rkproductions5560 he is a genius . Last thing thing he needs or cares about is a critique from joe bloggs off the internet . Wow people are full of their own shit these days ,look how long your diatribe is that you just wrote back.... gassed up
I remember seeing Ricky on this show at the time and really liking his tone and delivery. He was kind of cruel and nasty but still really funny. When The Office first came on I recognised him straight away so the documentary style was lost to me but it was still brilliantly funny.
When I first saw the office I thought he was really working in an office for comic relief or something because I knew he was funny and off the telly but had never seen a mockumentary like that
@@michaelc3977 How strange that you would presume to know that I liked it for the swearing particularly after I detailed the reasons why in my comment. He doesn’t even swear that much. Very odd.
Ricky still uses material like this because he knows it's a new generation where you don't have to rely on BBC, ITV or Channel 4 to get your material out there to millions & millions of people.
I have never heard him comment about any of this work or his Chat show on C4...he like people to think he went from failed pop star to the Office. ..completed glosses over all this.
Nx Doyle Oh you have heard him talking about it? how about a link? I've seen countless interviews and he never mentions 11 o'clock show or his talk show...probably because it's the basis for half his stand up material.
It comes up quite a lot in his podcasts and some interviews in the last 10 years. At the time, not many people liked his 11 o' Clock Show segments and found him completely unfunny. Especially when you had the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen on the show. This led to his Meet Ricky Gervais talk show which, by his own admission, was a complete failure. So, like his pop career, he failed in many ways before Stephen (having met him through radio, and needing a character to film for a BBC project) filmed Gervais as Brent. That project of Stephen's is what led to The Office. Not this.
richard10013 show me one interview where he talks about it?. You don;t need to give me a history lesson I was there, I've been following him since the 11 )'Clock show. He's mentioned his pop career many times but likes to give the impression he attempted to be a writer first and a comedy actor second.
dagnut Your initial claim was that he never talks about it. Now you are limiting it to his talking about it in interviews. If you had limited it to interviews, I'd likely not have written 'bollocks'. As Richard said, RG can be heard talking about his failed chat show and 11 o'clock stint on podcasts, as well as during the post-The Office XFM years.
some people forget how funny shows like this and Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge, Blue Jam, The Day today, Nighty Night, Reeves and Mortimer/Shooting Stars are still beyond funny!!! praise be the Era when a "Comedy show" was seen as COMEDY! Just a bit of fun not picking on gender or race or nationality or whatever is the popular topic. This is brlliant. full stop.
I was living in Slough when the 11 O'clock Show and the Office came out... I would piss myself laughing in my local pub (Rose & Crown)... 'cause I'm from Luton... 🤣
I don't understand people moaning about comedians reusing jokes, if the rolling stones play 'satisfaction' in a gig no-one complains that they've already played that song in 1965 do they? I personally like seeing the evolution from 'throwaway comment on xfm' to 'part of a million selling comedy show'. It does at least show that he doesn't just pay a load of writers to supply him with jokes every time he does a new tour, as I understand many supposed 'top rate comedians' do. I mean, in the 70s all the comedians used to just pick and choose from a pool of about a few hundred standalone gags that they all shared, there was some people that were genuinely inventive eg. Billy Connolly with his long, digressing story telling, but to complain about artists doing the same trick twice seems like the thought process of a spoilt, entitled toddler.
Joey Diaz had this on his podcast. Comedians are expected to deliver new things every single time. Nobody ever wants their 'greatest hits' like a band. Bands have it easy.
Lots of the top rated comedians write for each other which is a good thing as they will sometimes think up material that isn't for the fans they've created. Normally the best bit about the joke though is the misdirection, the unknown part about it normally setting up some expectation and then revealing the counter intuitive or bizarre answer. What's the point of going to see a top comedian to hear everything they've already said before may aswell just watch the DVD. With music there's normally some sought of emotional connection and they importantly sound really good. If you are willing to spend £20 a ticket to see a comedian who's jokes you've already heard then more fool you.
@@dangriff12 I totally agree with the point about setting up a well known joke then ending with an unexpected twist, and that is definitely better for comedy fans, but half the people at a big comedy show wont have seen them before. They've just been dragged along, so reusing some jokes is not just economical but also does this half of the audience a favour. In fact a small percentage of the audience won't even be into comedy full-stop. It's better to get new fans interested by using a few of your strongest jokes, and even if half the people have heard them, chances are they're fans and will still laugh anyway. I'd be pissed off if I payed even £10 and the show was a complete transcript of the last one I saw, but I think it's acceptable for comedians to have a repetoire of classics, to keep the laughter going enough for them to enjoy the next, original joke. Like an appetiser :)
@@benwinter6049 I agree with you but I have forked out enough money to watch a few top comedians and I was unhappy about the amount of repeated material. I think the best solutions is to visit them at the end of the tours once they've worked out what new stuff works best. Really they should charge less for the initial gigs where 20%-30% is just rehashed material. If there's 6 or 7 comedians then it's not so bad because you're unlikely to have heard them all before and some won't have the style of repeating old material and will work half the material off the audience. Although it's more hit and miss for them as it depends how funny the audience is. Ross Noble is the best for working the audience into his act but it is obviously tough for him and his comedy isn't nearly as good with an uninteresting audience. I do find it weird the fans who seem to find everything as funny second time around, I think why didn't you just watch a DVD? and save yourself £15. When I went to see Frankie Boyle he had too much rehashed material off Mock the Week and I didn't really understand why. He was able to come up with very high quality new material based on current affairs for the show every week but reused 20%-30% of his better jokes for his personal stand up shows. I think there's a level of laziness when you've already shown your good enough to do it week upon week on a TV show and then you turn up to a gig and repeat a load of stuff. I think he must have a load of writers for the show. I know a lot of comedians have jokes that they feel are too out there and edgy for them to tell but will suggest their jokes to Jimmy Carr as he's used that as part of his routine before.
@@benwinter6049 Also if you have changed the name of your tour that implies different material. Just keep the same tour name for the same jokes. Then I know not to go.
@1:20:45 as a posh boy from Caversham who used to be scared of going to the Blockbuster video in Whiteley "where all the scum live". I approve of this joke.
This was a golden age of British comedy. In the past 15 years things have changed for the worst. Too many people get 'offended' by jokes (Yes, jokes, they are jokes). Free speech has suffered at the hands of twitter happy, liberal cranks.
I used to love this show. I don’t care if he repeats the jokes, if he makes me laugh then that’s a good thing. The lockdown has made me get proper into Karl pillkinton too. So funny. Laughter is good! X
Proving that Gervais already knew about Carl before joining XFM and creating a character who just happened to be a sound engineer working in a cupboard and getting rinsed by Ricky 😂
Jeez, he dined out on those jokes didn't he? If they weren't ones he'd already told on XFM a few years earlier, they sure as hell went into his 'Animals' and 'Politics' stand-up shows! 😅
@@-______-______- He was at XFM before The 11 O' Clock Show, but yes, you're right, he didn't actually start presenting until his return to the station in 2001. He did still get a lot of mileage out of those jokes though! 😂
It's funny how Iain Lee achieved the least success out of everyone on this show. Baron-Cohen, Gervais, Donovan, and even Crook, all got their own shows after this show finished. Last I heard of Lee, he was on late-night radio.
I genuinely liked iain lee's input on this show but I think the success went to his head. I saw him on subsequent stuff but he seemed up his own ar#@ bit. I think he burned a few bridges. He seems much more humble these days though
@@nettils5555 Obviously I meant nobody in terms of her career like the original comment said and not her personal life. Iain Lee's actually a somewhat known name in the UK, Donovan isn't.
Watched this after his appearance on HBO's "Talking Funny" with Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Louis CK. Louis CK said he threw out his material every year, and Ricky quickly agreed, "Me too." That was the first time I felt like Ricky was delusional. He rolled this Falklands War joke out for what, ten years then? I caught him live in Chicago in 2010 for"Out of England 2", which could easily have been called "segments from Animals and Politics he thought Americans hadn't seen yet". Then there's his "show" on HBO, taken from a podcast which is itself largely taken from a radio series from 2001-2003. I love Rick, but it's soured just a bit every time I hear him repeat jokes word-for-word over a twenty year period.
Joe M. But 99% of acts HAVE to use the same act,as if ur doing 4 shows awk for a few years there's no one who can have that much material, & most stuff to good not to make sure every one gets to hear them,same with music bands have to do same show for ages sometimes a year or till new album comes out.also I think he writes most of his own stuff,where some stand ups have to buy jokes from writers so they can have lots of stuff,but get them on a talk show with As that they havnt rehearsed & u see how UNfunny they are but Ricki norm is funny on spot.but that's what I think.
1forrest 1 you are kind of right, but a lot of guys write an hour of new material a year, Ari Shaffir talks about how he just aims to write 5 mins a month. Real standups work week in week out, some hacks get regular spots doing the same act for tourists but they are not respected in the standup community. Rick would fall into that category by normal standards but he did churn out a lot in a short time to be fair, he just did not put the time in to refine his standup, not his fault really he was just really busy. Sounds like he is taking it much more seriously now tho, been performing in New York a lot lately and starting a new tour soon.
CORNISHDUDE he has 5 different stand up shows which are like an hour and ten minutes each it's not bad. And he wrote 3 sitcoms. The office alone makes him a genius.
Recently I saw Ricky at the Oxford Union. He spoke for about an hour on a range of topics, but mostly he just spoke about his career, going back to the time he had a solo spot at XFM, then single-handedly creating The Office, right through to when he made Extras by himself. Someone asked if he would again collaborate with some fella called Simon or Steve or something, but as it was part of a two or three-pronged question, he didn't get around to answering. I can imagine it would have been difficult to talk about, because I've seen about as much as there is to see of Ricky in the last few years and nobody else's name has come up.
Well we generally don’t give plugs to people we no longer get on with, it’s human nature. Everyone knows Steven cowrote, especially in England. Stevens done alright for himself. He’s living in California married to the beautiful blond woman from Hart of Dixie, getting his own good gigs. Private & public lives are different. I understand Steven had a v different way of being around people socially that didn’t work for Gerv. It’s all good. We don’t know the details. but I respect your pov, it was mine for some years.
I remember watching the 11 O Clock show on a 14 inch solavox tv in my bedroom, during a pretty sad time in my life as a 20 year old. This, and "Two Pints of Lager" were a couple of shows that bought me a lot of comfort.
Not forgetting Ali G started on this show also.
Thanks for the upload!
Hope your life got better 😊
I was a Runner & Assistant on the show back then. Ricki was really nice & nice to me.
Daisy & Iain too.
Ian is a bellend now though
@@ppdrumHow do you know?
@@gwauk205 He also has mental health issues (public knowledge) this could be a reason for his bad attitude behavior. Antidepressants etc
@@gwauk205 my previous comment was deleted !!! But I said check his social media , he is rude and disrespectful. He was sacked for such behavior recently.
@@ppdrum yes he seems very unhappy, totally different to how was back then
Thank you SO SO much for uploading this. Best 11 O Clock show compilation ever. Loads of these I haven't seen... and I thought I'd seen them all. :-)
17:43 is the only TV complaint that Gervais ever got that was upheld.
Btw, from one gervais junkie to another, thanks a lot for making this video.
+Shinryuken15 source me
+bowl frizell He mentions it in conversation in one of the xfm shows. When I come across it again I'll note down the episode.
+Shinryuken15 your right
They got a complaint upheld on Xfm after saying cock as well
It sounds a lot like it's staged joke tho
Daisy Donovan was my tv crush back in the day
Eveyone! Yes.
Yeah me too😂
Absolutely!!
There's something wrong with you if she wasn't
I remember coming home from work (I did a 2-10 shift), and it was the first time I'd seen Ricky Gervais and I thought he was the funniest thing ever. Fair paly to the fella, he's done all right for himself.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, please! We're all wankers.
Wish i was alive back then life looked to peak in the 2000s
@@dannydyer2879 Show began in 1998 (to 2000).
He really wasn't that funny. He just swore a lot which was impactful back then. And life peaked in the mid-90s. You can see it in music. Grunge music was conclusion of 50 years of guitar music, and that died in 1994 when Kurt Cobain (was) checked out.
He’s repeating a lot of his old stuff in his stand up shows
Thanks for sharing all these clips 👏
Classic, thanks for the work putting this together.
I used to love this show, ali g and Gervais were the highlights, haven't seen this since it was on tv, cheers for the upload.
Thank you for a thoroughly entertaining hour and half! Will add into my monthly rewatch of everything Gervais lol
Great upload. Never seen ricky in the 90s before he was famous, he seriously has not changed one bit. Great seeing someone stay humble.
This aged like milk.
@@thefonzkiss Why?
@@simonyricoolsbecause he has not stayed humble
@@drycfcYes he has. Just because you say it, doesn’t make it true. R-
Tard
This was an incredibly good show. It was top notch. And Gervais was the best thing about it.
Ricky really has it in for Dawn French and Lenny Henry!!! lol
+Dan O'Malley DO IT YOURSELF I GOTTA SAVE SOME AFRICANS!!!!
@@rahulkemp6489 That's great acting, he's so mad=)
Ahhh the good old VHS lines across the screen. Memorrrrriiiies
Fix the tracking !! Lol
Not seen a lot of these .. thankyou x
Brilliant compliation. Thanks for uploading.
Ahhhhh VHS quality..... It's like seeing an old friend after many years :)
I love how obscure your avatar is. It's the scene from the Directors Cut of T2 where he's being taught to smile, right?
God I wish they would find a cure for autism already.
LyovMyshkin I've not been tested for autism, but I do tend to have some of the traits.
And indeed it is the T2 smile scene :)
jim jimjim how many matches are there on the floor?
Thanks for the share -made for a great afternoon. Haven't seen the Quincy bit (1hr:16m) since old fashioned telly!
There's a difference between a moan, as you call it, and and observation
Gervais was still doing the same jokes back then amazing
Unfortunately a lot of people didn't get the joke.
But the audience were pissed 'Lads' and 'Laddettes'.
Fantastic vid,memories flooding back
Thanks so much for this, I am having a good laugh.
I remember as a wee lad seeing Ricky on this show for the first time and howling!!! Absolute genius.
thanks so much for uploading!!!
What a compilation
Me and my brother used to absolutely love him on the 11 o clock show
Ground breaking at the time
Lunatic
Thanks for the video uploader very kind
Ricky Gervais was the highlight of the show for me. Always made me laugh and he came on to Nice 'n' Sleazy by The Stranglers.
Re-watch this regularly and still makes me absolutely howl with laughter!
I remember watching this at Uni, he came on before Ali G 😂
He’s been recycling some of his jokes for years !!! Lol
Name one other .... or is it because you've seen the Falklands one on something else?
Yeah I've seen quite a few, Falklands, autism kid, dawn french.
Comedians trying to break through at the time wrote jokes for sketch shows and later combined them into a whole stand up thing.
Back in the day there was no youtube. So the 100,000 people who watched that variety show that night only saw the joke, where the rest if us caught it when they finally had the investment to do a live show
@@rkproductions5560 he is a genius . Last thing thing he needs or cares about is a critique from joe bloggs off the internet . Wow people are full of their own shit these days ,look how long your diatribe is that you just wrote back.... gassed up
@@bensmith5288 wasnt even talking to you... stop. Get help. And some mouthwash.
The one about the old lady saying a 90 yr old was scarred for life....said it in 'Politics' and more recently in 'Afterlife'
I remember seeing Ricky on this show at the time and really liking his tone and delivery. He was kind of cruel and nasty but still really funny. When The Office first came on I recognised him straight away so the documentary style was lost to me but it was still brilliantly funny.
When I first saw the office I thought he was really working in an office for comic relief or something because I knew he was funny and off the telly but had never seen a mockumentary like that
He just swore a lot. That's what you liked.
@@michaelc3977 How strange that you would presume to know that I liked it for the swearing particularly after I detailed the reasons why in my comment. He doesn’t even swear that much. Very odd.
You guys would love Twitter
None of this would be allowed on TV now 😂 breath of fresh air to see JOKES being said and people just getting on with their lives.
well he did it again
Ricky still uses material like this because he knows it's a new generation where you don't have to rely on BBC, ITV or Channel 4 to get your material out there to millions & millions of people.
That’s rubbish. If this was unacceptable by today’s standards, TH-cam would take it down.
Can't say anything nowadays can ya?
@@LOL4TehWinz he's mad, the mad boy was going mad.
i know that a lot of this material ended up in xfm, stand up, podcast's etc. but this was funny as fuck
+Mr Peaches Latour I totally agree or better still not nicking Karl gold and present it as his own. He's still a funny man either way
Yh I know he has recycled a lot of his material over the years
‘What’s the biggest animal you could kick to death, you personally?’ 😂
Great compilation, thank you 🙏
Readers Wives is something this generation could never appreciate!
I have never heard him comment about any of this work or his Chat show on C4...he like people to think he went from failed pop star to the Office. ..completed glosses over all this.
Bollocks.
Nx Doyle Oh you have heard him talking about it? how about a link? I've seen countless interviews and he never mentions 11 o'clock show or his talk show...probably because it's the basis for half his stand up material.
It comes up quite a lot in his podcasts and some interviews in the last 10 years. At the time, not many people liked his 11 o' Clock Show segments and found him completely unfunny. Especially when you had the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen on the show. This led to his Meet Ricky Gervais talk show which, by his own admission, was a complete failure. So, like his pop career, he failed in many ways before Stephen (having met him through radio, and needing a character to film for a BBC project) filmed Gervais as Brent. That project of Stephen's is what led to The Office. Not this.
richard10013 show me one interview where he talks about it?. You don;t need to give me a history lesson I was there, I've been following him since the 11 )'Clock show. He's mentioned his pop career many times but likes to give the impression he attempted to be a writer first and a comedy actor second.
dagnut Your initial claim was that he never talks about it. Now you are limiting it to his talking about it in interviews. If you had limited it to interviews, I'd likely not have written 'bollocks'.
As Richard said, RG can be heard talking about his failed chat show and 11 o'clock stint on podcasts, as well as during the post-The Office XFM years.
Ricky and this show was superb
I went to the same senior school as Ricky and our Mums were dinner ladies together so references to Reading and Whitley always made me laugh!
7:49 OGGY!
Oi oi oi
Used it in the office. Gareth
This was broadcast on terrestrial TV. That's all you need to know really. The snowflakes would just die if it were on now.
some people forget how funny shows like this and Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge, Blue Jam, The Day today, Nighty Night, Reeves and Mortimer/Shooting Stars are still beyond funny!!! praise be the Era when a "Comedy show" was seen as COMEDY! Just a bit of fun not picking on gender or race or nationality or whatever is the popular topic. This is brlliant. full stop.
Don’t forget Look Around You
I was living in Slough when the 11 O'clock Show and the Office came out... I would piss myself laughing in my local pub (Rose & Crown)... 'cause I'm from Luton... 🤣
I don't understand people moaning about comedians reusing jokes, if the rolling stones play 'satisfaction' in a gig no-one complains that they've already played that song in 1965 do they? I personally like seeing the evolution from 'throwaway comment on xfm' to 'part of a million selling comedy show'. It does at least show that he doesn't just pay a load of writers to supply him with jokes every time he does a new tour, as I understand many supposed 'top rate comedians' do.
I mean, in the 70s all the comedians used to just pick and choose from a pool of about a few hundred standalone gags that they all shared, there was some people that were genuinely inventive eg. Billy Connolly with his long, digressing story telling, but to complain about artists doing the same trick twice seems like the thought process of a spoilt, entitled toddler.
Joey Diaz had this on his podcast. Comedians are expected to deliver new things every single time. Nobody ever wants their 'greatest hits' like a band. Bands have it easy.
Lots of the top rated comedians write for each other which is a good thing as they will sometimes think up material that isn't for the fans they've created. Normally the best bit about the joke though is the misdirection, the unknown part about it normally setting up some expectation and then revealing the counter intuitive or bizarre answer. What's the point of going to see a top comedian to hear everything they've already said before may aswell just watch the DVD. With music there's normally some sought of emotional connection and they importantly sound really good. If you are willing to spend £20 a ticket to see a comedian who's jokes you've already heard then more fool you.
@@dangriff12 I totally agree with the point about setting up a well known joke then ending with an unexpected twist, and that is definitely better for comedy fans, but half the people at a big comedy show wont have seen them before. They've just been dragged along, so reusing some jokes is not just economical but also does this half of the audience a favour. In fact a small percentage of the audience won't even be into comedy full-stop. It's better to get new fans interested by using a few of your strongest jokes, and even if half the people have heard them, chances are they're fans and will still laugh anyway. I'd be pissed off if I payed even £10 and the show was a complete transcript of the last one I saw, but I think it's acceptable for comedians to have a repetoire of classics, to keep the laughter going enough for them to enjoy the next, original joke. Like an appetiser :)
@@benwinter6049 I agree with you but I have forked out enough money to watch a few top comedians and I was unhappy about the amount of repeated material. I think the best solutions is to visit them at the end of the tours once they've worked out what new stuff works best. Really they should charge less for the initial gigs where 20%-30% is just rehashed material. If there's 6 or 7 comedians then it's not so bad because you're unlikely to have heard them all before and some won't have the style of repeating old material and will work half the material off the audience. Although it's more hit and miss for them as it depends how funny the audience is. Ross Noble is the best for working the audience into his act but it is obviously tough for him and his comedy isn't nearly as good with an uninteresting audience. I do find it weird the fans who seem to find everything as funny second time around, I think why didn't you just watch a DVD? and save yourself £15. When I went to see Frankie Boyle he had too much rehashed material off Mock the Week and I didn't really understand why. He was able to come up with very high quality new material based on current affairs for the show every week but reused 20%-30% of his better jokes for his personal stand up shows. I think there's a level of laziness when you've already shown your good enough to do it week upon week on a TV show and then you turn up to a gig and repeat a load of stuff. I think he must have a load of writers for the show. I know a lot of comedians have jokes that they feel are too out there and edgy for them to tell but will suggest their jokes to Jimmy Carr as he's used that as part of his routine before.
@@benwinter6049 Also if you have changed the name of your tour that implies different material. Just keep the same tour name for the same jokes. Then I know not to go.
The way Daisy looks at Ricky. PURE LOVE.
“Aw we ate that, can you send us some more?”
17:50 the only complaint upheld Gervais ever had was for this joke on his standup wasnt it(
Funny to see all his Stand Up routine he was using back in the 90s
I still remember going to school the next day, everyone was talking about Ali G but i thought the best thing on this new show was Ricky :D
@1:20:45 as a posh boy from Caversham who used to be scared of going to the Blockbuster video in Whiteley "where all the scum live". I approve of this joke.
This was a golden age of British comedy. In the past 15 years things have changed for the worst. Too many people get 'offended' by jokes (Yes, jokes, they are jokes). Free speech has suffered at the hands of twitter happy, liberal cranks.
Yeah. TV is fucking BORING these days, stuff all this sensitivity shit, how did the British forget how to take jokes?
The conservatives were the biggest censors of material when this was popular
Bloody 'ell I haven't seen these since they were on TV!
I used to tune in specifically for Gervais
One of the best comedy geniuses ever born, and Bob Mortimer too.... Kx
Have a box of tissues ready (and that's just for Daisy Donovan)
This just proves you can use a piece of material over and over again for 20 years and not only get away with it but do quite well.
Green Whovian you're in for a huge shock when you learn about the comedy world. Also Santa doesn't exist.
CollectioNeo Yh I know he has recycled a lot of his material over the years
Daisy Donovan was smoking hot
Now she’s fat
He was right to be worried about Rolf Harris
This is gold. 👏🏾👍🏽
More bronze
Telling the range war joke since 2002
Cjw Yh I know he has recycled a lot of his material over the years
Still funny July '22
this is 98/99
2:30 how many times has he told that joke 🤔
Let me guess.... Falklands?
Suffragettes bit was hilarious. Even Ricky wouldn't get away with that now..
“I haven’t actually met an evil dwarf….” Dead
This guy is funny as hell! Did he do anything else?
Kevin from Toronto ❤
Afterlife, Derek, Extras, The Office etc
Couple of small bits of TV, the odd minor film role, I think… 🤔
The Oscars…
I used to love this show. I don’t care if he repeats the jokes, if he makes me laugh then that’s a good thing. The lockdown has made me get proper into Karl pillkinton too. So funny. Laughter is good! X
So this is all the material that he went on to use in his stand ups.
Proving that Gervais already knew about Carl before joining XFM and creating a character who just happened to be a sound engineer working in a cupboard and getting rinsed by Ricky 😂
Referencing Ellen at 31:27, crazy to think that he'd be on her show years later.
The Lenny Henry remark 😂😂😂14:45
Damn, British comedy was peak in the late 90s, early 2000s. What the hell happened?
DEI?
11:53 If only Ricky knew what we now know today
Dawn is in love with Ricky Dean Gervais, the look of admiration in her eyes at times when he's in the studio is nice
Dawn lol.
You mean daisy ??
Daisy Donovan!
Daisy was DYYING at 1:04:53
fucking hell this is a gift, thanks
Jeez, he dined out on those jokes didn't he? If they weren't ones he'd already told on XFM a few years earlier, they sure as hell went into his 'Animals' and 'Politics' stand-up shows! 😅
Xfm was after this.
@@-______-______- He was at XFM before The 11 O' Clock Show, but yes, you're right, he didn't actually start presenting until his return to the station in 2001.
He did still get a lot of mileage out of those jokes though! 😂
I used to love him on the 11 O'Clock Show, he was so funny at the time.
Reminds me of my student days.
The Rolf Harris joke aged like a fine wine
Ricky sure loves that Falklands joke
Thanks Ricky. I watched this back in the 90s and kept an eye on you. You were so fucking funny, no one could touch you. Look at you now. ❤
Knowing rickys ability to withhold his laughter im surprised he didn't break out into a screaming laugh
So when Gervais was trying to be in the new Bowie in Seona Dancing, he was actually really enjoying the Falklands 😄
Well done!
People think the office was his big break. My mates and i were fans from the 11 oclock show
What are the lyrics to the jingle Ricky Gervais walks out to?
The song is Nice and Sleazy by The Stranglers
Ah hahahaha. Pervert.
@@amorembalming 👌
thanks for this epic collection---ya gotta put condom on because dog may have worms---thanks for the bacon info
It's funny how Iain Lee achieved the least success out of everyone on this show. Baron-Cohen, Gervais, Donovan, and even Crook, all got their own shows after this show finished. Last I heard of Lee, he was on late-night radio.
I genuinely liked iain lee's input on this show but I think the success went to his head. I saw him on subsequent stuff but he seemed up his own ar#@ bit. I think he burned a few bridges. He seems much more humble these days though
Iain Lee's a bigger name than Donovan, she's a nobody. Plus, he became the lead host of that Channel 4 breakfast show a year or two later.
@@nettils5555 Obviously I meant nobody in terms of her career like the original comment said and not her personal life.
Iain Lee's actually a somewhat known name in the UK, Donovan isn't.
Yeah, Iain Lee is definitely a bigger name than Daisy Donavan.
Watched this after his appearance on HBO's "Talking Funny" with Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Louis CK. Louis CK said he threw out his material every year, and Ricky quickly agreed, "Me too." That was the first time I felt like Ricky was delusional.
He rolled this Falklands War joke out for what, ten years then? I caught him live in Chicago in 2010 for"Out of England 2", which could easily have been called "segments from Animals and Politics he thought Americans hadn't seen yet". Then there's his "show" on HBO, taken from a podcast which is itself largely taken from a radio series from 2001-2003. I love Rick, but it's soured just a bit every time I hear him repeat jokes word-for-word over a twenty year period.
Joe M. But 99% of acts HAVE to use the same act,as if ur doing 4 shows awk for a few years there's no one who can have that much material, & most stuff to good not to make sure every one gets to hear them,same with music bands have to do same show for ages sometimes a year or till new album comes out.also I think he writes most of his own stuff,where some stand ups have to buy jokes from writers so they can have lots of stuff,but get them on a talk show with As that they havnt rehearsed & u see how UNfunny they are but Ricki norm is funny on spot.but that's what I think.
Joe M. I don't imagine he expected this to see the light of day again, likewise the xfm shows.
1forrest 1 you are kind of right, but a lot of guys write an hour of new material a year, Ari Shaffir talks about how he just aims to write 5 mins a month. Real standups work week in week out, some hacks get regular spots doing the same act for tourists but they are not respected in the standup community. Rick would fall into that category by normal standards but he did churn out a lot in a short time to be fair, he just did not put the time in to refine his standup, not his fault really he was just really busy. Sounds like he is taking it much more seriously now tho, been performing in New York a lot lately and starting a new tour soon.
CORNISHDUDE he has 5 different stand up shows which are like an hour and ten minutes each it's not bad. And he wrote 3 sitcoms. The office alone makes him a genius.
@@soup8786 The brilliance of The Office is 80% Stephen Merchant's writing.
I am French and the format looks very much like "Les Nuls" in the 90's. With Chantal Loby. Looks like they got inspired by this
"Mummy i've made a Rolfaroo, i've made a Rolfaroo!" :-D
Genuinely thought that first member of the public was Karl Pilkers for a sec, but I don't even think they had met by then :)
Looked a lot like him.
Lawrence of the Labia.
Lawrence of the fucking Labia.
Fuck sake.
"President Clinton said, 'It was a real BLOW' " too fkn funny
0:30 does this predate the drugs episode of brass eye?
Recently I saw Ricky at the Oxford Union. He spoke for about an hour on a range of topics, but mostly he just spoke about his career, going back to the time he had a solo spot at XFM, then single-handedly creating The Office, right through to when he made Extras by himself. Someone asked if he would again collaborate with some fella called Simon or Steve or something, but as it was part of a two or three-pronged question, he didn't get around to answering. I can imagine it would have been difficult to talk about, because I've seen about as much as there is to see of Ricky in the last few years and nobody else's name has come up.
Steve Merchant. They created The Office and Extras together.
@@elevatedtech He was joking mate. Ricky almost denies Steve's existence nowadays. And always says when I made instead of when WE made...
@@elevatedtech whoosh!
Well we generally don’t give plugs to people we no longer get on with, it’s human nature. Everyone knows Steven cowrote, especially in England. Stevens done alright for himself. He’s living in California married to the beautiful blond woman from Hart of Dixie, getting his own good gigs. Private & public lives are different. I understand Steven had a v different way of being around people socially that didn’t work for Gerv. It’s all good. We don’t know the details. but I respect your pov, it was mine for some years.
11:55 oh dear lol....
Wouldn't get away with alot of this these days!
was he doing a david brent persona
No. That's how he is.
@@docastrov9013 and you don't understand irony
called out Harris early, phenomenal
the news hasn't changed much really has it.