Ricky Gervais: Mortality
Dark humor fans will love this irreverent comedy special tackling deep topics. Not for the easily offended.
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Ricky Gervais: Mortality
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In this stand-up special, a comedian takes on big questions about life, death, and the state of the world with blunt, no-holds-barred humor. Expect sharp observations, wordplay, and debates about modern culture and free speech, with plenty of jokes designed to push buttons.
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Pros: sharp observational moments; bold taboo jokes; clever wordplay bits | Cons: recycled familiar material; rambling podcast-like feel; rants over punchlines
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You’ll likely enjoy this if you want blunt, provocative stand-up that mixes ageing and mortality with culture-war commentary, especially if you liked Ricky Gervais: Armageddon or Ricky Gervais: SuperNature; Not for you if you’re tired of repeat themes or dislike offense-driven jokes.
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meh, but ok. My first special for him, know him and his work but there was no great laugh out loud moments
Can't say it was the funniest show, but it was okay. Too many toilet jokes for my taste this time, and most of them not too funny.
I enjoyed this, laughed at a lot of it and felt it was worth the watch. I feel like if you liked Ricky before you would enjoy this.
Bloody fantastic. Such a wise man. I love how he truly is a jester, being able to say true things that are too uncomfortable for “normal” people to say. Thanks mate.
I LOVE Ricky Gervais, but I expected much more after all the breaking attendance records etc. It was more of a commentary than an actual comedy, then it just ended. The funny bits were spaced so far apart that it wasn't constant belly-aching, gut-bustlingly funny (honestly, I don't think there as one thing that really made me laugh hard - other shows I've been literally crying with laughter). I'd be seriously upset if I'd paid money to sit there for 56 minutes and didn't laugh much. Max of 6/10
I was expecting more. It just ended abruptly. Indeed there were some high points but...
**My Score: 6.5/10** An alright stand-up by Ricky Gervais, nothing in comparison to his previous stand-ups, but a solid, authentic attempt. It is actually great to see that even after all the controversies, he still is the exact same comedian, finding the same things funny and joking about them. In that sense, _Mortality_ is one of his most honest performances.
Well, that ended stupidly. Not just the ridiculous lie that “alcohol is poison”. (Alcohol is actually made, in small quantities, by your own body, so it can’t be a poison) But the whole show weirdly came to an end.
RICKY GERVAIS: MORTALITY IS A STAND-UP SPECIAL. GRADE: B. (NETFLIX). It has been two years since his last special. We waited two years for #RickyGervaisMortality a stand up special on #Netflix. Was it worth the wait? I say NO. Don't get me wrong...there are still some hilarious moments in the special. Few are more enamored with Gervais' humor more than I. Remember when #LennyBruce was near the end? I did not have a vivid memory of it even though I was 14 years old when he died of a morphine overdose. His routines were more about him...HIM, HIM, HIM all the time. When Ricky hosted #TheGoldenGlobes he was at his height. He is still unique and really funny as he proves in the second half of Mortality. Watch it and see for yourself! #streamingbanter.
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A man who spent too much time on Twitter, melted his brain, and earned too much money to ever understand or be relatable to other humans for the rest of his life. Anything good in it feels slightly off, like it was written by someone else (which it very well could have been). His act and persona was at its best when it was about challenging authority through pushing boundaries, using irony and absurdity to make a point. He often missed the mark and crossed into just being a weird dick, but he was probably an overall benefit to comedy and society until maybe 2005, before gradually decaying into its current rotting state. When he wasn't doing that, he was satirising the everyday, the bland and relatable. Observational, silly, fun. Taking the mundanity of life and making you realise that *it* is the absurd thing, what we accept day-to-day is ridiculous, not the 'childish' people actually trying to have fun. He is now a long way from both. He is the authority to be challenged, and his view of "the average person living an average life" is some mutant caricature based off whatever his radicalised algorithm shows him. There's no more irony, no more satire, no more repeatability. He's gathered a fan base who doesn't like or understand who he used to be. The most dedicated of his fans are there because he became one of those people who were 'cancelled' despite the fact he will make infinite money, sell out tours for the rest of his life, and is part of the political establishment in both the UK and US. It's not 'politically incorrect' when everything he says is now the norm and acceptable. He's got nothing to fight, no more points to prove, nothing interesting to share. He won. All he's got left is to either reassess and rebuild who he is from the ground up, or to continue on his current path - making inane, hacky jokes and punching down, hurting the people he used to defend, and spiralling down the rabbit hole until all he has left is a few paid friends and his social media feed. The alternative and edgy comedians are the ones fighting guys like Gervais. He became the joke. This special is another data point in the tragedy of his life.
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