Iconic Golden Globe Moments Ricky Gervais Live March 28th 2026

Says welcome to the live chat So I'm assuming that some people in the world Can see this. I don't know there's No way of knowing and I I Don't really know how to check it Oh, I know I could check it on My laptop good night. I could see if I'm broadcasting or not I think I am as there's billions of people Suddenly asking me questions. There's a bit of it. It's too fast. It's mental lucky. I've got some questions, you know, so hello, this is YouTube live it's the sort of thing I used to do on X a little bit on Instagram mainly on X I started doing it through the pandemic And we called it bollocks Live there's even a fan club called the bollocks gang So, yeah, I just I just Answer your stupid questions. Not all stupid You know mainly the ones from dogs and cats Are stupid so this is how it works Someone said do you eat eggs? No, I'm vegan. I was easy, right? I've got a bit of a cold as well That's why I've got a nice butch voice At the moment anyway Cheers welcome to my youtube channel and Welcome to my first YouTube bollocks live right question Keon What processes do you go through when deciding what to make your comedy about? Oh That depends I mean you're sort of at the mercy of having an idea So Sometimes it's character first mostly sitcom is character first But then you have to find out where you put that character and what it's about like Derek Existed way before I thought of put him in an old people's home and then you find out what what is that about? Whereas Something like afterlife the idea came first the concept Came first what if you lost everything and you were gonna kill yourself, but you didn't because the dog was hungry You could do anything. You can always fall back on that you can you know, and then you build that up David Brenn Existed before the office, but it sort of came handed out because I'd worked in an office for like eight or nine years And it really made sense to make it about that about office Politics and he really thrived being a middle manager. You could put him anywhere now So it sort of depends but you are at the mercy of having an idea Like I'm working up a new show at the moment live and I and I just go around Trying to think of things that ever happened to me like childhood I like to do things like childhood and school and family because it stops you talking about Celebrity and You know being in the public eye So I can get a little bit Boring. I mean for me, you know So it depends but with sitcom it's usually a character first and then you build Stuff around them, but it depends Dave When are you going to get round to doing a new live show Dave? I'm in the middle of it, mate. I've done about 12 new material nights. I'll probably do another 30 or 40 maybe I've got about 28 minutes But even that changes when you get a new bit you go. That's better than that other bit and you keep going back to You know half an hour until you you know, you've really done maybe 60 70 80 and the reason I do so many now is because I Think people pay a lot to see my live show. So it better be ready You know on my early stuff when I used to do like 40 dates The last 10 were better than the first 10. So I used to feel sorry for the people who'd Bought the first sometimes I go back to a town go. No, this is it's bad now. So now before I start charging full price I Make sure that show is already Pretty much as good as it can be Yeah Keep so to answer your question Dave It'll be ready finished to Start charging full price around the world in about September October maybe Keena, how would you persuade younger generations to support charitable causes? Well, it makes you feel good it's the right thing to do and You don't have to take a take a let's say animal charities they sort of because I know a lot about those and they're the ones that I've really honed in on and I That's the what I do most charity for But you don't have to give Millions of pounds and volunteer every day Little things you can do like for example, just don't add to the pain in the world, so Don't spend two grand on a inbred pedigree dog rescue one You've already you've done an amazingly good thing The more you get people start getting pedigree the more people are breeding dogs and the more unwanted dogs There are so just if you if you get a dog Make sure you adopt Eat less meat then this animals are killed if if you eat me I'm not gonna say you shouldn't eat me. I I'm vegan but Yeah, I I don't preach but if you eat me and you give up meat one day a week We feel fear feed another hundred million people. It's just so you don't have to do much you can just not do bad things So it's easy and then you'll find a real passion and I find you think you care about most and And it and it's good. It's it makes me feel good. Yeah anyway Julia, why did you want to become a comedian? Um Well, I didn't for ages I've always liked comedy. I've always tried to be funny. I've always tried to make people laugh But I never thought it was a job growing up I thought my passion for like science Would be my job And actually went to university to study biology and then changed to philosophy because I realized I did I I don't know I thought oh Why am I doing this? Why am I gonna get a job? I want to be a pop star. I Discovered David Bowie, and so I I did that I Changed to philosophy which was seven hours a week and I joined a band and got signed and it was over immediately. I Failed really quickly. I failed as fast as I succeeded and then I've got a normal job, you know, I've got a Job in an office and I guess I made notes, but I wasn't thinking I'm gonna become a Big comedian you you just do what you enjoy and I sort of fell into it and I've got a job in a radio station and I started popping up on air and Then I got a job on a show called the 11 o'clock show. It's a late-night sort of SNL with a lot more Swearing I guess which is about 98 99 And then I just thought well, this is my job. Now. I'm a comedian so I sort of fell into it and I really grabbed the ball by the horn because I was What was I? 37 so late and now I think wow, it's the best job in the world, obviously So, yeah, that's that's why I don't know if it's why this is more how How long have you been a cat lover I Think since I was born as long as I can remember. I was born into a household With a dog that was already getting on a bit called Betsy which was a fat little Fox Terrier cross and a big fat Gray fluffy cat called smoky Now So I loved I loved these two. I Remember I'm to the Betsy our dog used to sit under my pram in the garden. Just guarding me and I Think Betsy died when I was about seven or eight and I got my first dog New my first new dog called lucky a black lab and Smoky the cat died when I was about Maybe three or four and my mum's party trick when friends or neighbors came round and I was a for She used to sing. She was here. What's this? She used to sing on top of old smoky All covered in snow and I would cry which is a pretty good party Come in do you want to see my do you want to see my child cry watch this? So I suppose that's where I got my empathy love of animals from I don't know I It never occurred I didn't have to grow to like him I just I was I want or I wanted to Have a a cat and a dog everything but you're only allowed to have a cat and a dog No No hippos allowed in reading when I was growing up See, this is the sort of thing I Was talking about just answer. These have been pretty good questions They're usually mental. So I think it's already a better class So maybe I do another one of these Tom I was Mary by the way and Julia and Keena and I don't know if I'm saying the names even Tom you've traveled a lot around the world Where was your favorite place that you visited? well, I Go back. So I regularly go back to my favorite places and I've probably owned it down to 10 or 15 Mostly in Europe I Me and Jane sometimes do our top five that we can't wait to visit when I'm on tour Copenhagen Might be number one So my Prague so my Amsterdam So my Stockholm Oslo Zurich Went to another I went to Milan for the first time absolutely love that I went to Geneva. So what was that Oh Scandinavia is amazing And But then Prague Oh God, I can't narrow it down. But those are some of my favorite places and I highly recommend all of them Jezza What one joke that you've written do you still laugh at when you think about it, oh that is so tricky Well, the first thing I thought of there and it isn't really a joke It's David Brent in the training day competing Going I think there's been a rape up there that really That makes me laugh at the situation because he's so desperate. It just sums up David Brent it's such a weird thing to say to win a role play thing so I Remember after the first Series the office went out someone asked me what's the favorite line? It was that it was so that one That one is a line because of the situation because of the character It's not really a it's not really a joke if I joke you mean a one-liner. I Don't really Do them if I do a one-liner in a sitcom or a film. It's usually that it's the You're laughing at the person that did it or it goes well like David Brent when he does jokes He gets them wrong or they're not funny Or deconstruct them and the closest I don't even do jokes like one-liners or puns or Two blokes go into a pub. I don't even do that in my stand-up. They're much more about situations and and I don't know I guess attitude value Just The Golden Globes right into the Golden Globes is the one time I do traditional One-liners I'd say and over my five hosting stints I've probably written like Maybe a hundred or a hundred and fifty jokes The first joke I wrote when I first got asked to do it And I think I was gonna try and get it into the monologue because it was very topical at the time But then I Found out I was actually introducing this guy as a presenter. So I made it a little bit different. It was One of the times I came out after the monologue and it was the um, I went out with a beer and I said, sorry I'm sorry. I'm drinking. Um, I like a drink as much as the next man Unless the next man is Mel Gibson. So it really it worked a treat Oh, I think one of my favorites might be in the last Golden Globes I did when I say There's no in memoriam this year When I looked at the people who died The list wasn't diverse enough There was mostly white people. So I thought now not on my watch which That's gotta be Because it was just right in the middle of all that Virtue sickly not it's gone away, but that was sort of I think that was peak virtue signaling people worrying about what they could say and couldn't so Yeah, it might be that one. I don't know. It's like I can't remember all Joss When you write your scripts, do you see here the character saying this? Yeah, usually and do you write those lines with them in mind? Well, that's the thing Like Well in the office, I Didn't know who's gonna play those parts So you have someone in your mind then you cast and then the second series You know who you're writing for so it's easier because you can hear their voice you can write for them You can write for their physicality. You know what they're good at, you know, if they're good at livers or Prefer it, you know written down So what I started doing is often casting before I Saw write the piece. I did that with Derek and afterlife I've done it with Anna cats. So it's It's so much easier and so much. Oh, what's the word? It's so much richer and realer That you you write with their Their voice and you know in mind. So yes is the answer more and more And he says for example David, oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, I was uh, I was thinking David when I'm writing lines for him Lauren What was your most favorite episode of extras and why my gut feeling says it's the bowie one That would be up there for the thrill of Being in the same room and co-writing a song with him and him being a hero yes, I think I think you're probably right but if I Objectively if I looked at what episodes I think and what was absolutely perfect for the time and the vehicle and Got closest to the bone and Probably resonated most certainly people in Britain It was probably the Les Dennis episode So, yeah Kim here we go Kim wants to know Would you rather have legs instead of arms or arms instead of legs Well, I've answered quite a few of these. So This is the question so I've got legs as legs and Legs as arms as well. So I've got four legs right or four arms What's best it's a no-brainer for me whenever it's like Feet versus hands. I've got to choose hands. I'd have to choose four hands because Right, if you've got Four legs you can walk up right with your feet. What can you ******* do? You know, you can probably just about hold but you can't You can't I can't play the guitar. I can't knit I Can't don my own socks What can you ******* do with just a pair of ******* legs and feet? I mean you could You'd be a good fight. Oh my god, actually Think of standing up with like another relative ******* kicking people in the face be devastating Isn't a kick about five times like a punch? so No one would mess with you. I Mean, I know you say I know you think anything in yeah, but you could kick anyway No, because you might fall over on you You've got one leg when you kick in think of having two legs planted and kicking with two ******* legs That'd be amazing Now for four hands, I can do all those things. I can play two guitars If I'm sitting down I Can play two guitars gonna I could play bass with my bottom hands and guitar That would be amazing Someone said juggler. Yeah, I think Yeah getting around. So what how would I get around? I'd probably have to walk Like a chimp, wouldn't I? if I had four arms and hands That'd be right because all the things you could do. I can only see that as an advantage that Walking properly and being able to kick people in the face. That is the only advantage I can see with for feet and legs but for four hands, oh my god, I Mean you'd be a freak whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's not ideal. I like the two legs two arms But that's sort of that works Like three and a half billion years of evolution says that is the best So it's gotta be it's gotta be Arms instead of legs Well, that was a an example of What you can achieve on YouTube Live talking absolute bollocks. Oh, yeah. I hope you've enjoyed it if you have and This goes down. Well I'll do some more. So I said pouring a Dutch barn ginger spiced Good on you and and it helps donkeys Go to Dutch barn calm as well But yeah by if you're gonna buy one if you don't drink much or you don't care or you know Buy a bottle of ginger. It tastes amazing particularly ginger beer. It is one of the nicest drinks. I've ever had that's that's the truth and It helps donkeys So that's my plug Have a lovely weekend Now I've got to turn this off with my fat fingers without looking like a ******* granddad on Zoom right Okay, I'll do more if you liked it let me know tatty bye everyone ******* out