Ricky Gervais Armageddon Netflix

Northernsoul

Just watched this, released on Netflix yesterday. Terrible, the worst of all his stand-up shows imo.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058328373/ricky-gervais-armageddon-netflix

Is it the same as his last show, where 90% of it is just him recounting times he offended someone on Twitter?

NIMAN

Watched half of it last night, not good. And I say that as someone who likes RG.

Not even sure if I'd be bothered to finish it.

Northernsoul

I’m a massive fan, love 90% of everything he does. This was such a disappointment. The audience didn't even sound like they were enjoying it. I chuckled once, in an hour long show. Chuckled! Grim.

Basq

Have to agree - really really poor!!

Ashbourne hoop

It was terrible, and I usually love everything the guy does. Still can't work out if he was trying to be offensive or take the piss out of "snowflake" culture?? Either way, it wasn't funny, I only watched 40 mins or so.

Peter Flynt

I gave up on RG years ago when he stopped being funny. His early work on The Office was class but his stand up work now is just not funny and it's all about punching down on the weakest in society. Like Jimmy Carr (another shyster) he likes to talk more about how his next joke could cancel him and if you don't like it than **** off. He deliberately looks to target a new social group and I notice he's moved onto refugees fleeing war torn countries in fear of their lives at sea.

RG likes to claim there's no topic he wouldn't joke about but would he make jokes, for instance, about The Queen's death/funeral. Like **** he would as he knows it'd be the end of his career. So, like a typical bully, he sticks to mocking the weakest in society.

Hangdogroad

The Office is still up there among my top comedy shows of the Millenium, I liked Extras as well but I never took to his standup, nor to him as a person particularly.

Eggonyerface

The office, Extras, The xfm shows are all brilliant. I think Steve Merchant deserves more credit for them then he gets

kirk.

The office isn't my cup of tea

Some of his golden globes stuff was funny

Be right back

Anyone else not like Afterlife?? The first series not too bad but his character was a miserable sod.

ShagNastii

Yeah I'd agree. Love Gervais and 99% of his stuff but his stand-up has basically become a parody.

Being the old man saying all that goes unsaid requires little or no talent. He could've written the show on the fly.

My rule now is that any stand-up comedy that has to pause for applause it generally sucks. Far far far too much politics in stand up now.

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121546278#Comment_121546278

After Life was awful. Had great potential and some good bits and characters (Ashley Jensen in particular), but the majority of it was overly saccharine nonsense completely betrayed by the other side of the show which was the likes of the therapist and the guy with the beard just trying to make Ricky Gervais himself laugh on set. Every character other than Gervais had no personality or actual character development and was only there to provide feed lines for Gervais to go on a rant or regurgitate things that atheists or philosophers have previously said.

Ash.J.Williams

Sounds like the Stuart Lee Ricky Gervais routine from what I'm reading here

MisterAnarchy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121540773#Comment_121540773

Ricky always punched down, I remember his first show on Channel 4 where he was really disrespectful and nasty to guests, it wasnt funny, it was downright nasty.

I think Merchant is alot of the brains behind Gervais success, a bit similar to Seinfeld and Larry David.

I Watched 2 episodes of After Life and stopped it wasnt funny and it wasnt deep.

Peter Flynt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121547107#Comment_121547107

Merchant and Karl Pilkington have basically provided most of RG's material. Maybe his stand up routine is getting worse because they're not around anymore. Agree on Afterlife. On Twitter people posted that it was some sort of sensation. Watched the first episode and RG's character abuses an overweight ginger boy and it's rollseyes from me.

Could only watch one more episode.

FattyBolger

I remember when people first started saying that Gervais’s new stuff was crap around 2010, up until then from when The Office first came out you hardly ever heard a word said against him by anyone.

Now he hasn’t done anything good for at least fifteen years ( since the first series of Extras ended anyway), and he has resorted to bullying trans kids on his stand up shows, the opposite is the case: the only people standing up for Gervais these days are the same kind of loutish boors he portrayed working in the warehouse in the Office.

I haven’t liked Gervais since I watched the DVD extras of one of his shows where he would record himself bullying his friends, and the editor of one of his programmes.

If I recall correctly (it has been at least fifteen years) Gervais sellotaped a man’s features to make the man resemble a pig, and somehow managed to trap the same man in a harness in their office in order to humiliate him. Look up “Taping Nigel” on YouTube.

It was grossly bizarre behaviour from a man in his forties and it turned me off watching Gervais since. He’s a nasty screeching bully and he’s not even funny anymore.

reclose

I thought it was fairly average and the jokes were being forced.

I’m usually a fan of his work.

Northernsoul

I loved The Office, thought Extras was decent & Afterlife was a slog but had its moments. Humanity, Animals and Politics were good standup show imo, but this thing just completely sucks. Not a single joke lands. I was embarrassed for him.

Royale with Cheese

I've only seen the clip doing the outrage rounds on Twitter of him making "jokes" about all asylum seekers being young men. I agree with him that he should be able to joke about more or less anything and if you don't like it don't watch, but it needs to actually be funny. This most definitely not wasn't, not surprised the whole special is the same.

markw7

Just watched 'Taping Nigel' there, he is one sad pathetic man. Why did nobody tell him to cop the f on, it is beyond asinine and not even remotely funny. A good hiding is what that lad needs, might learn him some manners.

Also Merchant is a spineless enabler who looks like he was cloned from Greta's nail clippings.

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553754#Comment_121553754

You're not that funny there yourself on about greta

markw7

Fair enough, edited the offending statement

Fred Cryton

He's just not funny. And I'm on board with his anti-woke agenda so i should be his greatest fan. But there's no point making good points about wokeness, if you're not FUNNY. Hes meant to be comedian first and foremost.

sniperman

roy chubby brown,the best of them all,he dont give a fcuk about anything/anyone,says it as it is

thehairygrape

Afterlife is a strange show. Hated parts of it, especially when RG is unnecessarily nasty. But some parts were really good. Kerry Godliman was great as the wife. Ashley Jensen was very good. Great to see Penelope Wilton and Peter Egan back together many years after Ever Decreasing Circles. Almost any scene not involving RG actually. Won’t watch his latest. Can’t take to his standup stuff.

Sugarlumps

He's just rehashing the same tired material in this one. Píss poor.

Sultan of Bling

Disappointing show.

The ironic part was when he went into a rant about comedians using their stand up shows to get their message across just to get applause.

He spent half the f**"ing show doing the same thing.