Synopsis
Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018) is a stand-up special you can watch online on iFILM. It was Gervais's first hour on stage in seven years — and the wait shows in how much material he had saved up.
Eighty minutes, no warm-up, no apologies. Gervais works through celebrity — his own included — mortality, and the increasingly thin skin of modern public life. He notices that a world where everyone takes everything personally is also a world that produces the most material for a comedian who takes nothing personally. The jokes are blunt. The targets are broad. And underneath the provocation there's a consistent logic: if you're offended, you might be part of the point.
Directed by John L. Spencer and released on Netflix in 2018, Humanity sits in the line of his earlier specials — Animals, Politics, Fame, Science — each one circling the same basic question about what people actually value. Stream Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018) online on iFILM.
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