You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
Ricky GervaisWhether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.
Ricky GervaisI've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.
Ricky GervaisI think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.
Ricky Gervais