our first guest well here's a funny guy and it's not a minute too soon by the way a good
friend of ours he has a new HBO comedy series entitled Life's Too Short premieres February
19th ladies and gentlemen is Ricky gervaiser oh how are you good well you've been a very busy
fellow you were hosting the Golden Globes uh Sunday night in California and now here
you are Tuesday back in New York City thank you very much for coming back in time to be
on the show I appreciate that I might I was getting out of town quick anyway really yeah
this is your third time hosting that show third time doing that and that yeah 21st doing this
is that right 20 I know that means nothing to you no it means a great deal to me it means
more to me than you hosting the Golden Globes three times I don't know what it means to you
but for me I'm honored yeah wow so are you done hosting the gold yeah I think so for now I did
it I did it the first time because I was sort of quite flat and it's a huge Global audience
for a comedian I like writing gags that's what I do I did it a second time because I thought
I could improve on the first and I wasn't to do it a third but then lots of people saying
he'd never be invited back so I did it to annoy them just to show them yeah good for you yeah
and uh of the of the three how do you rate them one two and three put them on the podium how do
you rate them this was my favorite because I think the audience was more receptive I think
it took them the first two to sort of get me right I think the last time I just thought why
is he saying such horrible things yes yeah but I think this time they they sort of understood
they were just gags you know or they checked them at security and checked they got a sense of humor
to get in I don't know but yeah you know last year they had a right stick up there maybe they had it
bad it removed I don't know but it was great and it was fun and I you know lovely but I think three
times is enough for anyone because uh I mean of the many things you do hosting award shows is
probably not what you'll be remembered it's not my idea either I mean I do that like some people
play golf it's not part of you know my thing and Win Lose or Draw you know the next day I'm I'm
writing something that's the fun for me writing and creating TV shows but it was you know it was
just such good fun you know well I like that the year before when people were outraged yeah people
they were stunned they could they couldn't believe that a guy had the courage and the brain power to
stand up in front of famous people and make jokes about them oh my God I know like it was
oh the it wasn't a room full of wounded soldiers they were people
who pretend to be someone else for a living you know it was no exactly
also you you can't care what people think about where they're offended or not because
anything you say someone somewhere will be offended oh yeah you know yeah and
just because you're offended it doesn't mean you're right so it all cares we had we had a
woman we still do have a woman depending on what security did with her but we have
a uh in the audience who had a series of questions about your behavior on the
Golden Globes okay the references were a golf you playing golf and your penis
is that does that ring a bell what does what ring a bell yeah
yeah it's a good party trick get me get me a bell and I'll do my best
it is a good party trick there's no yeah
that's just Ricky it's got the Bell out no hands [Applause]
so she she's suggesting that there was something omitted from her version that she didn't quite
it did not add up I did say um I said uh the the list of rules I gave me and I said no profanity
that's fine I've got a huge vocabulary um and then uh I said no nudity oh that's a shame so
I've got a huge vocabulary then I slipped in but a tiny penis so I did say penis I've said
it three times tonight I mean I don't know what the rules are but you know I'm the one
who started it yeah but I I thought you said something about golf did you say anything about
golf I didn't say anything about God okay well I don't think then we'll get her out of here then
um
did you get and I got out of town and and that's that's right did you uh did you get
drunk during the show so you're drinking uh yeah slowly gradually yeah drinking uh I was drinking
um lager yeah yeah in distilled Spirits what's your preference uh I I like whiskey
but I when I'm working we see I only drink beer when I'm working like it's a soft drink
[Laughter] [Applause]
two of these shows the Life's Too Short all right uh I thought they were tremendous oh
thank you cheers I I can highlight things that I would like to talk to you about one was the
scene with Liam Neeson very funny and then uh the star he hires an assistant the young woman's name
who plays his assistant what's her name uh her her real name or in the you pick what her real
name is Rosamund Hansen and in the show it's Cheryl yeah and she's very funny she's very
um she's not very bright and the only hires her because she's cheap because her parents want her
to get out of the house till six every night so it's the worst assistant you can have but
um but it what it did it gave me there's several scenes with you and Stephen Merchant in an office
and I think it's probably really what your life is like exactly in London it's a it's a beautiful
sort of spare lean a very modern clean space in which you and Steve Merchant create is that
how it works exactly right and the sort of the joke in this show is that we're still bothered
by everyone we've ever worked with coming in and saying because we play ourselves and uh um saying
that you're any more office you do any more extras so it's like we're we're trying to get on with
stuff but we're you know and uh Warwick comes to us who was in extras and who's three foot six he's
a dwarf he is a dwarf there's I think there's 300 types of dwarfism is this on television this show
thank you
if you if you have a nickel on yourself
what I like about when when I uh like the extras when I watch your show the extras and then there
was the second season of The exers and now this show and of course the office but in this one in
particular uh the the language of the uh script the written word is so reminiscent to my ear of
the office is what I find very satisfying about this is that just because you are the office or
is that something you were trying to do well I suppose you know you return to the same themes
um it's a fake documentary like the office but I think it's moved on I think if the
office reflected those sort of quaint docu soaps of normal people being famous like
David Brent this is more up to date where people live their life like an open wound
you know those documentaries they just let them do anything so it's I think it's the same but
different I mean that's yeah it's very uh very funny as I mentioned and the the guy the star
uh we've got this he's broke his wife has divorced him and he's got no work exactly and he really is
um a film star he was in films like return the Jedi and uh
um Willow and that but the joke is that no one recognizes him because his face so he's trying
to get back and um he's he's trying to do so so it's very funny he's such a physical career
he's got such Humanity he's just funny so we had to make him like a little Hitler so you have to
really to bring out the you know the pain you made him like a little Hitler well we he's he's sort of
manipulative and he's nasty and he exploits other dwarfs he runs an agency and he takes all the best
jobs for himself and he hires them out to be fired from cannons and stuff um so it's but it's it's
about exploitation you know of little people and stuff but he's uh he's very very facile uh with
the with the written word very you know it's very funny he's delivering material he's like he's like
a silent movie star or something it's just so so funny and he's he's unbreakable we can throw
I want to bring out a little Warwick doll he's great yeah he's great now um I'm so uh curious
about your life in London I know you have a flat here in the United States yeah but I want to know
more I I like you I'm fascinated by it like like uh uh I would like to have a suite of rooms at the
Savoy do you have a suite of rooms at this avoid I don't but I mean I could I could sort you out
with one right would that be a good move for me or to live there well not just to have so people say
oh where's Dave he's at his rooms at the Savoy in London yeah it'd be nice yeah or you could
probably you know I could probably pull a few strings you'd probably get a room at the palace
if they're not used yeah no no that's that's too much that's really that's tacky now for example
oh you've given up haven't you yeah I give I have given up would you and your your friend
Stephen uh come to the grill room with the Savoy and we'd have lunch yeah we could have
a grill yeah what would you have a little pork chop or whatever the special uh the
uh or the uh what do you call it the uh you know the tasteless white fish that
everybody gets there the uh what's that uh you know it's the broil the broils
I mean what would you be tweeting if he weren't here
what's he gonna be like in a couple of years is the last part of it usually is
faster Soul Dover Soul there you go what granddad [Laughter] [Applause]
and uh sad but true so the three of us would be there two together it's
like one floor of the Cuckoo's Nest I just watched it I love that guy I
love what he's great I love him I like his fight it's like a little testicle
I love him who cares who cares this shouldn't even be on the air it doesn't matter now the other
thing we want to mention another TV show an idiot broad to the bucket list with your friend Carl
amazing amazing um that starts that starts next week I worry about him I worry about his family
do they do they mind him being exploited that way he's not being exploited is he he's just he's no
um what we did we sent him around the world to see this yep
um well we had to lie to him because he hated the first one so much but the TV show was good it's
my gift to the world he's one of these people that just seized life differently so this time we said
he could choose from the bucket there's things to do before you die that's a great but he didn't
understand that he said he said why would you want to swim with dolphins if you're dying I went no
it's nothing to do immediately before you die get him to the door exactly yeah he said and he went
he said it's not to do with dolphins he said they just want to go to the Bahamas for a free trip
he said you said there's a dolphin in the Thames they'd go they wouldn't get in and we sent him to
um swim with dolphins but when he got there we'd swapped him for sharks oh it's hilarious
Life's Too Short has already been seen on the BBC Two is that yeah it's gone out any big hit
in England yeah and um hopefully it'll be a big hit for all right you can see it there right here
beginning January uh I'm sorry February 19th on HBO and An Idiot Abroad Premiere is January 21st
on the Science Channel man you are everywhere Ricky Gervais thank you [Applause] [Music]
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