-Ricky, now you're known for having strong opinions
about all different kinds of things.
So with that in mind, I want to play a game
of "Wheel of Opinions!"
-♪ Wheel of opinions ♪
-There you go. -[ Laughs ] I love that.
Got a theme tune.
A lot of thought has gone into the game.
-Here's how it works.
I'm gonna hit this button here, which is bluetooth
attached to the studio,
and it's going to activate the opinion topic generator.
And it's going to land on a random topic.
-[ Laughs ]
-And whatever it is, you have to give your opinion on it.
You ready for this?
-Yeah. -Alright, here we go buddy.
[ Beeping ]
Horoscopes.
I like horoscopes.
-[ Groans ] Ridiculous.
-What? -Nonsense.
-Why? -A pseudoscience.
How can your horoscope, how can people born
around the same time have all the same characteristics?
If they were in people's minds, because they --
First of all, they would make them flattering, don't they?
They say things like oh, Cancer, you're brave but considerate.
You know, Virgo, logical, hard working.
Not one star sign says,
"You've got bad breath and you're gullible."
You know?
Those daily things that are, you know, predictions,
they're so vague.
It's all things like, "Today you will seize an opportunity."
Well, what does that mean?
They've got to say something like...
If it said, "Sally Marsden in Teddington,
your boss is going to fire you today because he knows
it was you that nicked the petty cash,"
then I'd believe them.
But until then, it's absolute nonsense.
[ Ding ] -Let's hear another topic.
Here we go.
[ Beeping ] -Made up nonsense.
-Weed gummies.
I don't think you're a weed gummy guy.
-Well, I mean, I think they're probably good
for weaning kids on to drugs.
-[ Laughs ]
No! -If you're like,
"Little Tommy won't smoke his joint."
Give him a weed gummy. Give him a weed gummy.
That will help.
[ Laughing ] [ Ding ]
-Here we go, another topic.
[ Beeping ] We're moving.
Alright, mechanical pencils.
When you click and the lead comes, you know.
-Why? What was up with the pencil?
What was wrong with the pencil?
Who is going these pencils, they're not good anymore?
What was wrong with it?
This invention -- I remember when I worked
in an office, it was a little arm
that went down when you wanted a paper clip.
Like, people are going, "I can't pick up
paper clips anymore.
Fingers are so passe.
I can't pick up paper."
It's been made up.
No one needed it. What was wrong with a pencil?
Although I think that about a lot of stuff,
like belt buckles now.
They're like trying to do the Rubik's cube.
What was up with the belt?
And watch straps, absolute nonsense.
It's fine.
I got a pair of trainers, and it was ridiculous.
You had to pull open a thing, then pull them up
and then pull a drawstring.
What was up with laces?
A pencil is fine.
No one's ever -- no one's ever been disappointed with a pencil.
It's never -- it's never been needed to be changed
-Well, imagine having --
Imagine having a pencil that...
-[ Laughs ]
-Some pencils have disappointed. [ Ding ]
Let's just say. Let's just move on.
Here we go, another one.
Last one, Ricky, then I'll leave you alone.
Thank you so much for doing this.
Here we go.
[ Beeping ]
This is -- I don't know if we have time for this.
Space exploration.
-Ah, I mean, it depends for who.
I like the idea there's a space program
and I love the feat that we've been over.
Satellites and, you know, Hubble telescope
and we put a man on the moon.
It's incredible.
It makes me laugh as well.
When you see members of like, the human race taking credit
for things that a few people did.
Like, suddenly these people go, "We put a man on the moon."
I go, what do you mean we?
You live in a [bleep] bin.
You couldn't even point to the moon,
so stop taking credit for things the rest of mankind have done.
-You had nothing to do with the moon landing.
-Yeah, you did nothing
And I think it's, you know, it's great as a science program.
They're bringing in this thing where I was offered
on one of these things to go in space for 15 minutes,
and it was like a group of like billionaires
and they offered me a chance to be the first comedian
to do a stand-up show in space.
I went, no. I'm not going to risk --
That's mad.
I'm careful crossing the road.
Also, these people that pay like $300,000
to go in space and have a look around.
They go, here's Ricky Gervais doing 10 minutes.
they can watch me on YouTube and now they've blown $300,000.
Look out the window. That's the other thing.
People say let's go into space, and you look up.
We're in space.
We're in space now. We're right in the middle.
There's nothing you can see that you can't see from here.
It's like me getting out of the chair and going over
there and going, I can see the chair from here.
You were in the chair. You were in the chair.
There's nothing. You're not going to find --
Well, we might find a new planet.
Where is this planet?
It'll take you about 1,000 years to get there.
What do they expect a find when they freeze and they go there?
They expect to find this an amazing race of things
that tells us all the secrets of the universe
and it'll be big slug at that.
And you'll get there and it's like -- You go,
Oh, is there -- how can we cure everything?
And they go, "I don't know.
We're space -- we're space slugs.
We're absolute -- we're moronic.
So it won't be what people think.
It will never be as good as people think.
So just stay at home and watch Netflix, "After Life."
-We're in -- we're in space.
-Yeah, we're right in the [bleep] middle of it.
[ Ding ] -[ Laughs ]
That's all the time we have for "Wheel of Opinions!"
My thanks again to Ricky Gervais.
You can watch his show "After Life" on Netflix.
Oh, my gosh.
My face hurts yet again. You've done it.
Ricky, thanks so much for being here.
I needed a laugh.